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Post by Tom Wagner on Aug 11, 2013 10:03:57 GMT -8
1. Produce first year seedling tubers 2. Produce potato plants the following year 3. Produce flowers 4. Produce viable pollen 5. Produce berries 6. Repeat
That is very much my objective too. Needless to say, but that is my implied goal for others to accomplish.
Thanks
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Post by GunnarSK on Aug 11, 2013 23:23:59 GMT -8
1. Produce first year seedling tubers 2. Produce potato plants the following year 3. Produce flowers 4. Produce viable pollen 5. Produce berries 6. Repeat That is very much also my goal when growing potatoes from seed. Apart from having a choice of colours which is not available as commercial seed tubers.
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Post by GunnarSK on Aug 12, 2013 1:04:31 GMT -8
I also have seedlings from some other TPS: Certainly: Pig Knuckles (1 plant) Yungay (2)Mazuma Blue (2) Possibly: Orangutan, Redder Blood, Land Races, Quarter Master, Red White and Blue, Kiva and others. Some of the TPS I sowed didn't sprout, but they'll get another chance (still have seeds). I initially thought Redder Blood was among these, but it may not be. It yields most plants with violet ("blue") tubers anyway, but selection is of course a collective effort. Tubers of Ibis and Kiva from TPS are "white" (light yellow or cream coloured), but that is not very substantial. My goal for now is to get a population of potatoes which are good pollen producers and therefore self or can be used in crosses. *It's always possible to work with colour later.
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Post by GunnarSK on Aug 21, 2013 12:52:36 GMT -8
I probably have 9 Ibis seedlings, and they are in 7 pots (afraid to move more, but I probably should).
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Post by GunnarSK on Aug 28, 2013 11:45:42 GMT -8
On the 26 I moved Land Races and Yungay to 4 separate pots each, Diamond Toro to 2. There were 5 seedlings of Land Races, but I noticed later that one of the pots was empty. Today's "TPS movement": Pig Knuckles, Mazuma Blue and Kiva. Each variety got an extra pot, but they still have room in the original multipallet (with six rooms). Pig Knuckles already had formed baby tubers, and I moved an additional plant within the multipallet, but it may have lost its roots in the process. I now have Ibis in 9 pots.
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Post by Tom Wagner on Feb 4, 2014 13:48:23 GMT -8
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Post by Tom Wagner on Feb 6, 2014 20:40:34 GMT -8
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Post by Tom Wagner on Mar 23, 2014 20:52:01 GMT -8
A flat of potato seedlings from TPS. These are 15 days from sowing. 162 varieties....grown under shop lights and placed into a heated greenhouse to grow out for another week before transplanting to larger cells individually. Note that some have yet to come up yet...such is the germination inhibitors of some lines. Also note the strength of the clusters with lots of seed. The growth is nearly always better if sown in high numbers.
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Post by Tom Wagner on Mar 28, 2014 20:50:10 GMT -8
About one thousand TPS seedlings went into raised beds and 6 inch pots during the middle of this week down in San Diego way. Here is a shot of the raised beds
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Post by Tom Wagner on Nov 23, 2014 22:55:43 GMT -8
I have tubers from those seedlings ready to go in my car to plant in small containers in the UW greenhouse at the Seattle campus. Can't wait to get them growing. Meanwhile my TPS is sprouting well in the greenhouse...158 families started so far and many emerged within 8 days or less i.imgur.com/1Y5vYuW.jpg
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Post by Tom Wagner on Dec 2, 2014 22:48:28 GMT -8
i.imgur.com/cSzFqOa.jpg12 days from sowing TPS. Each cube a different TPS family. Another week or two until transplanting to single pots.
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Post by marches on Dec 8, 2014 11:03:41 GMT -8
My aims aren't quite the same. I'm hoping to breed something with high resistance to blight and diseases but that is commercially viable. Basically a bulk producer along the lines of Estima or Maris Piper, with good cooking and storing traits but added disease resistance. Not so much looking for purple potatoes or novel flavours, just something any gardener can grow easily and that farmers can grow with little or no sprays.
Maybe something along the lines of a yellow fleshed phureja type latter on though. Are these basically like sweet potatoes in taste? Because sweet potatoes are hard to grow here, rot badly in storage and are expensive imports. Would be better to just have a potato similar to them.
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Post by potatowine on Jan 12, 2015 2:01:24 GMT -8
"Hairy leaves? Sounds likes there could be crosses with the trichome-bearing wild potatoes Solanum berthaultii and Solanum tarijense which have trichome hairs with noted resistance to leaf-feeding insects. I had crosses of these species in the field at different times and hybrids to phureja types.....and wondering if any of those were among the male parents that pollinated the SKAGIT VALLY GOLD flowers. A few pictures of the hairiest potato leaves with high definition resolution may even hint whether trichomes A or B are present.....B types are better for insect resistance."
I have some probably selfed second year tps-potatoes from what probably is "Gammal svensk röd" (old swedish red) from the old terraces above my village in mid Sweden being quite hairy, dormancy was short on this particular one and being so small I presumed it would not survive winter so i planted it indoors.
What I'm fishing for is if the earliest clones coming to Europe had some known wild ancestry or am I just exagerating some completely normal trait in tetraploids?
Will post pictures when I figure out how from my cellphone or later from the computer.
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Post by Tom Wagner on Jan 12, 2015 22:04:38 GMT -8
I am sure the original potato clones into Europe were much different than what is available now. The old lines like Daber were widely crossed with Chilean ancestry tuberosum and if you look at old varieties such as Lumper and Aeggeblomme and many of the Baltic or Nordic varieties that is just the case. How much wild germplasm was in the first introductions can only be guessed at but andigena subspecies were likely part of the early stock.
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Post by LDiane on Feb 8, 2015 18:06:38 GMT -8
When growing some flower seeds one is advised to take care of slow-germinating seedlings as they will have desirable qualities that the fast-germinators won't.
Might this also apply to tps seedlings?
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