Post by Tom Wagner on Sept 28, 2010 7:39:42 GMT -8
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garden.lofthouse.com/botanical-potato-seed.phtml
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It is fun to see what others are getting out of TPS from me this year. The above links are from Joseph Lofthouse. I requested his permission to post these photos.
I will go over the True Potato Seed list that was sent to him to see if I can figure out most of the pedigree info.
I hope to show more results on this topic.
Meanwhile, I am harvesting some seedling trays of potatoes grown from seed. These are transplants that never got transplanted for the second time to the field. Poor little plants had to 'make' tubers in the 72 cell tray inserts. The first group I harvested were 25 seedlings from the cross of Negro y Azul X John Tom Kaighin. 10 of the 24 that made tubers were blue/purple and 14 were white/yellow. That is about right in what I expected....Negro y Azul is a blue/black potato that is a cross between a red fleshed potato (Red Regis) and a white potato (Lenape). I knew that the white potato would show up again about half the time if the male parent was a white or even yellow potato like John Tom Kaighin. The blue/purples may include blue flesh and or yellowish flesh. I won't know the flesh colors until I grow out the tiny tubers either next spring or in the greenhouse sooner as in January, when the dormancy breaks.
garden.lofthouse.com/botanical-potato-seed.phtml
garden.lofthouse.com/true-potato-seed.png
It is fun to see what others are getting out of TPS from me this year. The above links are from Joseph Lofthouse. I requested his permission to post these photos.
I will go over the True Potato Seed list that was sent to him to see if I can figure out most of the pedigree info.
I hope to show more results on this topic.
Meanwhile, I am harvesting some seedling trays of potatoes grown from seed. These are transplants that never got transplanted for the second time to the field. Poor little plants had to 'make' tubers in the 72 cell tray inserts. The first group I harvested were 25 seedlings from the cross of Negro y Azul X John Tom Kaighin. 10 of the 24 that made tubers were blue/purple and 14 were white/yellow. That is about right in what I expected....Negro y Azul is a blue/black potato that is a cross between a red fleshed potato (Red Regis) and a white potato (Lenape). I knew that the white potato would show up again about half the time if the male parent was a white or even yellow potato like John Tom Kaighin. The blue/purples may include blue flesh and or yellowish flesh. I won't know the flesh colors until I grow out the tiny tubers either next spring or in the greenhouse sooner as in January, when the dormancy breaks.
