TPS 2011 at samyaza's

[wmontanez]

Well that soil certaintly was liked by your potatoes, an inspiration for me to try better next year.

I am from Puerto Rico so I use both metric and english units.

This weekend I got few other plants to check the harvest. I am not giving up until I find the TPS lines that are good and plenty.

[samyaza]

I made fried potatoes for this lunch and I'm having great surprises.

First, I discovered some of them were rotting so I threw the worst away and took the ones that began to show bad news with me from my parents' to my apartment. When I peeled them, I noticed some of them had great brown ugly parts inside. I already noticed it in some potatoes from commercial strains but in a very little amount. I assume it's due to blight attack on the tubers combined to too early harvest.

Second thing, more cheerful, when I ate some of the TPS I mixed for lunch, I wondered if I was eating Jerusalem artichoke or sweet potato. One of them had a strong after taste of something I can't describe well but very uncommon and sugared for a potato. The pieces that had this taste are yellow, the pinkish Phyto Phyter I assume. I'll try it again later to make sure.

[wmontanez]

I noticed sweet taste here in USA one called Yukon Gold this is a yellow potatoes but also some of Tom's like Skagit Valley Gold has a sweeter taste yum.

[samyaza]

Finally, I know it as it's obvious : this Orangutan was an indeterminate.

It's a character I had never experienced before and I only understand by now.

When I transplanted them, some had little tubers already forming, but hopefully they kept growing until chilled by that disease.

It let them around 4 months of tuberisation (May-September), that explains the amazing yield. Earliness + indeterminate vine = jackpot ! ;D

I was desperate to see them sprout after only two weeks but in fact, few of them did, probably the immature that peeled. The largest number stayed dormant for several months.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Albert Einstein

[Tom Wagner]

Thanks for the information from your experience...that expands the everything. Indeterminate vines of potatoes and the later maturity equating into high yields...sweet!

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