I used to be transplanting my seed grown potatoes the opposite day. I’ve just a few totally different breeding strains, some diploid, some tetraploid, some wild ancestors of recent potatoes, all grown from true potato seed.
Rising from true botanical potato seed yields attention-grabbing outcomes, and permits me to breed and create new varieties. Because the dad or mum inventory is normally fairly heterozygous, every seedling is genetically distinctive.
Most of my potato seedlings seemed a lot the identical, some had just a few stolons, others didn’t. At this tiny measurement neither is surprising. Considered one of my seedlings is producing tiny little tubers.
I can hardly wait to see what these flip into.
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| Potato seedling with tiny tubers |
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| I did not break this off, there may be soil masking the stolon |
This little seedling actually needs to reside! It had 3 tiny little tubers (not all of them are in my images) and some different stolons. It has since been planted in its personal pot so I can consider it on the finish of the season.
I principally attempt to develop diploid potatoes as I discover they style higher. Sadly they have an inclination to yield decrease than tetraploids.
These seedlings are from tetraploid potatoes, their parentage is way superior to something you will get from the outlets so I made a decision to strive just a few seedlings and see what I may produce. It’s far too early to inform, however hopefully one thing nice comes out of this line.
I promote a small variety of seed potatoes annually by means of my on the market web page. These are from strains that I’ve developed myself and grown from true potato seeds. I can solely do that of their right season, some strains harvest a number of instances per yr, different strains solely harvest as soon as per yr. In case you are regulate my on the market web page.
