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Post by khumlee on Apr 20, 2013 1:24:34 GMT -8
Hi, Bellow a picture of few plants from TPS of rouge d'Auvergne, a rare french potatoe
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Post by stevecrouse on Apr 20, 2013 3:49:16 GMT -8
I sure would like to get some of those. Hint Hint
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Post by Tom Wagner on Apr 20, 2013 14:14:08 GMT -8
I would like to refer the readers to go to an older thread..... tatermater.proboards.com/thread/769khumlee mentions only 23 seed (TPS) from one berry and in France. This was Sept of 2012 My hope is that those seedlings produce a few berries. I was lucky to have seen hundreds of rare varieties of potatoes when I was in Europe a few years ago but that variety does not ring a bell. Rouge d'Auvergne ? I tried to listen to how this was pronounced on a search, but even after listening to it ten times...I cannot for the life of me repeat the sound.
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Post by khumlee on Apr 20, 2013 23:33:14 GMT -8
A another potatoes named as Bleu d'Auvergne is better identify, but rouge d'Auvergne is pratically unknow. Only 13 plants from this sowing, and seeds was really small compared to Phyto Phyter, tollocan fiesta. I try to do some berries from tubers of rouge d'Auvergne for you, because i dont know if with TPS of this one the plants will give to me some flowers. Last year with a mix of tps of modern french potatoes, and from 8 plants no one given me flowers.
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Post by Tom Wagner on Apr 21, 2013 21:14:35 GMT -8
Rare potato varieties, especially if not cleaned up by meristem methods, can be sparse potato berry makers. Additional one needs lots of TPS seedlings in order to find the ones that will set their own berries or be around some good pollinators. Adding any rare potatoes to my collections is always on my wish lists.
Thanks
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Post by khumlee on May 17, 2013 23:38:32 GMT -8
3 of my 12 rouge d'auvergne TPS, few show somes differences of colors and leaves shapes But this years with the cold and wet weather, we have many green aphids, and lot of my TPS plants show curl leaves.
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Post by khumlee on Apr 19, 2014 7:13:29 GMT -8
The bad weather of 2013 spring, had kill many potatoes plants and only 4 clones of rouge d'auvergne TPS remaining. The tubers are all the same shape, but 2 with yellow skin and 2 red-rose skin.
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Post by khumlee on Aug 21, 2014 8:05:46 GMT -8
This is a picture of my rouge d'auvergne potatoe of this year. Plants have a good tolerance for late blight, but haven't got a good yield.The last 3 years the tubers have only a ping pong ball size and poor dormancy. This year even with lot of late blight, the crop is better and the size of tubers increased and there are many berries (if someone are interested by), it's the first year I use only sprouts and not tubers. The 4 clones of the seedling last year have a poor late blight resitance. The tubers have a chesnut size.
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Post by Tom Wagner on Aug 21, 2014 15:28:49 GMT -8
Hey..Hey..palm colored potatoes! I never could get commercial growers to get interested in 'pink' potatoes.....they had to be bright red or not at all. So many European potatoes are Desiree colored.
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