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Post by mostlypurple on Jul 10, 2009 5:42:14 GMT -8
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Post by Tom Wagner on Jul 10, 2009 18:15:41 GMT -8
MostlyPurple, Thank you so much for showing my potatoes on your blog. I am so proud of you for doing this and also for doing such a good job of growing them. I put a link to these photos of yours on my tater-mater.blogspot.com/ blog. Go there to see where I grow some of my potatoes for increase, breeding, and show and tell purposes. Note my picture of Paint Jar. I have a picture of one of Paint Jar's grand kids....maybe I should post it somewhere. But I am thinking of calling it Mostly Purple...but will do so only with permission of a certain lady in Michigan. Tom Wagner |
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Post by mostlypurple on Jul 11, 2009 5:11:08 GMT -8
gosh, I'd be honored! just be sure to send me a handful to grow for myself ;D
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canadamike
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Post by canadamike on Jul 11, 2009 16:49:47 GMT -8
Tom, your kindness in thanking people with such profusion is humbling. The reality is that they are a real treasure and a continuous source of wonder, and always a precious gift to us.
I'll show you pictures of your babies in the next few days.
You'll then know why I love you my friend.
Gosh am I proud and happy...
Michel
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Post by Tom Wagner on Jul 11, 2009 23:42:41 GMT -8
Mostly Purple,
I took my neighbor down to look at my potatoes and tomatoes with her new video camera. For a lady of 76 years young she was able to capture me extracting pollen from a Nordic October and emasculating a cluster of flower buds of a Boyd Dude potato variety. We were able to put our heads together to put the video on her laptop and main computer. I am thinking of using part of it on my blog and maybe in Europe.
Anyway, I had some extra pollen of Nordic October (one of my best reds) and went to a potato seedling growing in a raised bed. I emasculated several buds of the yet un-named seedling and proceeded to tell my neighbor of the pedigree. I said that the original line was CT8406-33, a chacoense/tuuberosum hybrid with slightly blue rings in a purple skinned white flesh potato that was but one of some seedling tubers lines bred for high glycoalkoloids in the foliage to repel Colorado Potato Beetles. This line was either selfed or OP'ed and the result was Red Cat, a red skinned, red fleshed line that had lots of berries. I crossed Red Cat to a male parent called Lenape, a white skinned, white flesh line with high glycoalcoloids. The cross led to the Negro y Azul, a very black/blue skin and fleshed line that saw it's origin on some certified organic ground off I-5 near Buttonwillow, California. Negro y Azul was crossed to Kern Toro, one of my best reds at that time, a combination of NorDonna and Fontenot. The cross of Negro y Azul and Kern Toro led to Azul Toro, an excellent early blue flesh variety. I crossed the female Azul Toro with pollen from Blue Blood Russet, a cross of Blue Cat and an unknown russet seedling. The resulting cross was named Paint Jar, an inky black/blue with occasional white patches in the flesh. I crossed the Paint Jar with pollen from Dark Red Norland and this created Paint Nor. Paint Nor was crossed with pollen from October Blue, a cross of Nordic October, a red similar to Kern Toro with the exception of additional germplasm from Red October that had ND2912-2R in it....to Azul Toro, previously mentioned. The two seedlings in the raised bed has one I named last week as Mule Skinner Blues. The other had to be named and I thought of Mostly Purple and I serendipitously named it MOSTLY PURPLE as I crossed it with pollen from Nordic October...knowing fully that I had permission to do so.
Canada Mike,
Thanks for your sentiments but one word comes to mind with your excess....... ὑπερβολή
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Post by erdelt on Nov 2, 2009 14:46:14 GMT -8
My cutoff date for potato tubers to be sent out as samplers is around the end of April. I could send out tubers for the south after my harvest in the Fall 2009, which due to my travels would be early November. Tom Tom; I am responding to your last reply to me from early this year... I am still interested in getting a sampler of your potatoes that will grow well in the south. Plus, I am still interested in finding a source for TPS. They seem to be available in other countries, but not in the US. Thanks again! |
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Post by Tom Wagner on Nov 3, 2009 7:46:38 GMT -8
Erdelt,
I should be ready sometime soon to pack up potatoes for planting in the south. TPS too!
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Post by fusionpower on Nov 4, 2009 17:35:04 GMT -8
Tom, please consider sending some Azul Toro for potatoes to grow in the south. They were absolutely amazing in my garden. production was about 5 pounds per hill which is as good or better than most commercial potatoes like Kennebec.
I have a breeding line of tomatoes selected for early blight tolerance. It needs another year or so of selection, but even now, it holds leaves longer than any other variety in my garden. I've been selecting for 3 years saving seed only from the longest lasting plants in the garden. This is out of a cross of Eva Purple Ball X Big Beef. There is significant nematode tolerance in the line as well as early blight tolerance. With the heat and humidity here in the south, early blight is far more destructive than most other tomato diseases.
DarJones
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Post by erdelt on Nov 13, 2009 9:55:05 GMT -8
Tom; Thanks for you help. I would really like to know more about getting in contact to complete a transaction. Please contact me directly at paul@lacks.com. I will be watching for your answer. If anyone else reading this request has information to share... please contact me. Thanks again, Paul Erdelt, I should be ready sometime soon to pack up potatoes for planting in the south. TPS too! |
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Post by silverseeds on Nov 18, 2009 22:00:38 GMT -8
Tom, how variable are potatoes grown from TPS? I have a small wild potatoe, which thrives in heavy dry soil. Id love to breed with it.
but if I got a hold of some widely crossed TPS, could I find a variety which does well here also? Maybe not the heavy soil part, but for the dryness?
also how would I know? I mean my understanding is when I grow out the TPS I will have a bunch of different "seed" potatoes. each of which is a different new variety right? So what do i just grow each of those out, and see what the stats are for the nw variety? Is that how you do that aspect?
As a human I thank you for your work. this is an important time. and you are one of the lights in this darkness IMO. Luckily yur not alone, but theres not enough like you. Im sure you know that, but I thought Id give you a pat on the back.
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Of course I suppose