Duronal's Potatoes from Seed Experiment '08 and into '09

[Flummery]

Hi

What a wonderful thread - I missed this one whilst I was away.

Flummery - I am still planning on saving you some of mine; if you have enough just let me know. After this I'm going to keep the rest and try this method myself with the rest anyway.

I think I'm ok now ZAZ - use them yourself. I appreciate the offer though.

[Snadger]

Well done and a good result, but I think I will stick with the traditional method and use tubers.

Ian

Let loose your spirit of adventure man! I'll still be growing from tubers but I'll try a few seeds for the hell of it!

[zazen999]

Hi

What a wonderful thread - I missed this one whilst I was away.

Flummery - I am still planning on saving you some of mine; if you have enough just let me know. After this I'm going to keep the rest and try this method myself with the rest anyway.

[gojiberry]

Well done and a good result, but I think I will stick with the traditional method and use tubers.

Ian

[Flummery]

We're going to need a whole thread of our own this time next year!

[Skotch]

You can count me in on the experiement too - I have a 'volunteer' Picasso plant which somehow evaded digging up last year - one nice big seed pod which is now ripening on the window ledge at home.

Skotch

[Flummery]

I've carefully searched all my spuds this year for fruits - not a thing. Some kind grapes have sent me some. Then, I found a 'volunteer' spud hiding amongst the parsnips. It has seeds on!

There'll be lots of us at it next year, won't there?

[Snadger]

I've got some potato apples on my duke of york earlies and my desiree maincrop which I hope to harvest!

[nerobot]

I'm going to have to try this if I ever get any potato fruits. Not that this ever happens

Oh well. Thanks for the great information anyway.

Steven

[pjh75]

I wish I'd kept my potato fruits now... I chucked em after the posts that warned about how poisonous they were and before the posts about growing from them - doh!

[Duronal]

Good spot snadger! don'e worry markwcel i've got some spare fruit that shouldyield some seeds that you can have.

Send me a PM with your address and i'll see what i can do.

quark :- i'm no expert! just a fool that doesn't know when he's beaten, my mother in law told me they were fruit and the rest was essentially a child's curiosity, fruit = seeds = plants for free......! i hope we can get this off the ground and you never know we could stumble onto something miraculous. (oh the dreams of a mad man)

[markwcel]

none of my first earlies gave me any seed....have maincrop with loads of flowers on now..hope i can get some seed off them to try...

[Snadger]

Just had a look through google and you CAN get true potato seed!

Potato Seed - Catalina Potato

[quark1]

Duronal - it was I, quark - I PM'd you a day or so back as I saw you were interested in seed on another thread.

As the house 'expert' I thought it only fair to save a set of 2 fruits for you - if you're interested? - and invite you to input your expertise - which you have done - Ta.

Just let me have your address details and I'll get them off to you!

[Duronal]

What i found most interesting is that these plants were pretty small and yet produced very reasonable crops for a minimal effort.

I found this quite interesting as it talks about growing conditions and yields.

1 Ton of Potatoes - AllotmentTV.co.uk

But i wonder if we couldn't manage to grow our own grapevine variety, I'm sure someone said that they grew blue potatoes and were saving the seed from fruit this year........i just can't remember who it was.