Potato's from TPS

[Potatoes from TPS]

So Tom please correct me where I am wrong.

This is a compilation of info that I have gleaned off the INTERNET.

I should start my TPS at the same time as I start my tomato seeds.

Small potato seedlings should be transplanted same as tomato seedlings, burying them deep.

When transplanting to the garden, they should again be put into a four or five inch trench, and hilled normally. This transplanting twice and burying them deep gets the main root ball down into the same area as if you were planting tubers (seed potatoes). This helps tuber production.

If I do this right I will get almost as many pounds of tubers at harvest time, as if I planted seed potatoes.

The potatoes will be somewhat close to the mother plant in looks and taste, but showing slight differences. That is if there was no crossing between the two varieties.

I have seed from Kennebec and Yukon Gold, saved from the 2007 harvest. I would have had a lot more seed if it was not for the deer.

wood

PS; Why will this forum not allow me to type t a b l e s p o o n? It changes it to tablesthingy?

[tatermater]

To Potatoes from TPS,

Oh, great! Now you've got me talking to potatoes! I should suppose that I've done crazier things.

Your gleanings about TPS, gathering information bit by bit has delivered a flash of light or gleaming of the subject. You have found and have made a fairly accurate assessment for the layman to understand. I am curious as to how many sources you've had to glean to come to those conclusions. Thank you for your efforts.

Your question about the sthingy is one of the forum auto-censuring
potential words of insult. Now that I know that the last part that the word in question is viewed off color, I shall refrain from all things thingy. javascript:add("%20:")
Roll Eyes

Tom Wagner

[wood]

Hi Tom and All

First a lot of the info came from statements you made elsewhere. I use treepad (software). You can copy and paste into from other sources very fast in Treepad. This is how I accumulated TPS info. I do not know for sure the total sources, but no more then 5 or 6 other than you.

I plan on starting about 400 potato seedlings from TPS. I have only Kennebec and Yukon Gold TPS. Hopfully this will yield about 300 transplantable seedlings. The beauty of this process is if you have total failure at any point up to the time that you put the seedlings into the ground, you just pick-up some seed potatoes and plant normally.

I am planting Pontiac this comming summer from seed tubers. I would like to pick up a couple of other potato types that produce TPS in the future. Perhaps a red and a blue type with good production.

This year with only three varieties of potatoes in the basement, and saving seed potatoes has been a hassle. I am already all out of the Yukon Gold and nothing except small potatoes left from the Pontiacs. It will be handy to save everything that I need to plant the volume of potatoes that my family needs in three or four pill bottles.

Thank you!
wood

[tatermater]

Wood,

Thanks for the positive dimension of the effect that my TPS information has done for you. It would be fun to see what you have gleaned from the Internet and how you used it on you TreePad dowload. What version did you use?

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Wood are you also "Potatoes from TPS?"
If not, it was just a thought since Kennebec and Yukon Gold was mentioned in both messages.

It will be handy to save everything that I need to plant the volume of potatoes that my family needs in three or four pill bottles.

My intent exactly. If not just relying each year strictly from true seed, then perhaps a one-two project. Seeding true seed one year and planting the tubers selected for the next. Every other year, sowing seed followed by cutting tubers.
This could be replicated. Of course, I would recommend doing both each year, followed the third year by planting only the top potato clone or so that is super for berry production or other qualities.

Thanks,

Tom Wagner

[wood]

Tom and All

Yes I am "Potatoes from TPS?". When I can to put up the first message I did not think to log in. If you look toward the bottom of the first message you can see that I signed off as wood.

I am real busy the next Two days. Work and some meetings that I have scheduled. I will get to you by the weekend at the latest.

Thank you for the reply, I need to digest some things.

wood