About to order potatoes from Ronnigers.

[nctomatoman]

Interested in what people like...I want to select half a pound of 6-8 different varieties just to see what does well here in Raleigh - in the past, I've grown Peruvian Purple (too knobby, though they produced well), Red Gold (which I really liked), Caribe (ditto), and Yukon Gold. I want to grow a good sized purple flesh, red flesh, gold flesh, and a few good fingerings. Recommendations?

[goodwin]

Red Thumb, Austrian Crescent, Purple Viking, Colorado Rose. You have to plant Red Thumb if you haven't. I also grow Rose Finn Apple and La Ratte for market.
Ronnigers are good people - the best in the business.

[Tom Wagner]

http://tater-mater.blogspot.com/ is the URL of my blog. I just updated the blog with a write up on my Potato Sampler.

Because I want folks to try lots of varieties of potatoes, I could easily put one tiny potato tuber per variety in a box and get 'em to you when you are ready to plant. Most of the potatoes that I would send are as good as certified seed potatoes since they are either one or two years from true seed (No virus) or from one season away from tissue culture (USDA source).

For the last two years I have sent out my Potato Sampler--an 8 lb box for $40 postpaid. It can have anywhere from 5 to 20 varieties per unit. Wood Prairie has a similar box for that price, therefore it is within the range of what other potato seed sellers do.

I am thinking of sending out a one pound box with 1 oz. tubers with about 15 different varieties. Perhaps $10 would be a fair price. Any opinions would be appreciated.

Red Thumb, Austrian Crescent, Purple Viking, Colorado Rose. Rose Finn Apple, La Ratte Peruvian Purple, Red Gold , Caribe, and Yukon Gold.

I don't want to compete those fellas that carry those above so don't ask for them.

I want to grow a good sized purple flesh, red flesh, gold flesh, and a few good fingerlings

This is where I could add a lot of diversity. Fully 95% of my collections are not available anywhere else.
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Tom Wagner

[wmontanez]

Originally Posted by Tom Wagner

I could easily put one tiny potato tuber per variety in a box and get 'em to you when you are ready to plant.

I am thinking of sending out a one pound box with 1 oz. tubers with about 15 different varieties. Perhaps $10 would be a fair price. Any opinions would be appreciated.
Tom Wagner

Last year I planted a blue fleshed blue skin potato which I thought was Purple Peruvian but the flowers wasn't white as I expected but lilac flower/redish brown pollen. Then I discovered the berries, had my first experience with TPS which I saved to experiment growing some this year.

Any idea Tom of what variety this could be?



Looking for info on how to etc, I found Tom Wagner's name and is how I found this site! Anyway I am interested in the 1lb box of tiny tubers clones (hopefuly with a red fleshed clone) to try. How do I proceed?? I am growing my own seedling tubers from my unknown blue potato TPS for next year plantings. And few of the unknown blue potatoes clones and yukon golds.

Wendy

[Tom Wagner]

Wendy, thanks for the pictures of those potato plants. Growing potatoes from TPS is something I will never tire of doing. The photos look like they could be Purple Peruvian, therefore, I found some links to this variety that may, or may not, prove to valuable for a comparison.

http://1greengeneration.elementsintime.com/?p=408

http://1greengeneration.elementsinti...09/flowers.png
http://1greengeneration.elementsinti...atoberries.png
6. Potatoes! Hooray for potatoes! Easiest plant to grow, beautiful plants and flowers, and it’s lots of fun harvesting them. And I had no idea they produced potato berries – so strange!

http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/ken...016_889_tn.jpg

http://www.landscapingrevolution.com...e_peruvian.jpg
the image above looks like yours, Wendy.


I am pleased that my name was linked to your search for info on potato berries. Our Administrator, Mischka
should be happy that you joined up and posted here for your first time.

Wendy, if you search through many of the potato forum threads you may find some interesting details on growing potatoes from true seed. If you want more information on other potatoes such as red flesh potatoes or just wanting to order some, just PM me.

Tom Wagner

[wmontanez]

Thank you so much for replying. I PM'd you.

Originally Posted by Tom Wagner

Wendy, thanks for the pictures of those potato plants.

My pleasure to show my pictures. Thanks for the links. The unknow blue potato could be any of those. I was just curious about the name to keep in my records as the mother of my TPS seeds.

Originally Posted by Tom Wagner

I am pleased that my name was linked to your search for info on potato berries. Our Administrator, Mischka
should be happy that you joined up and posted here for your first time.

I found your blog, videos and posts here, took few weeks to read all the potato posts scattered around the web on TPS. I found Svalli and Richards, very helpfull and they have good looking plants. I started my TPS seeds already following your suggestions in one post.
They look tiny 20 days after sowing the seed,here they are:

Wendy Montañez

[Mischka]

Originally Posted by Tom Wagner

Our Administrator, Mischka should be happy that you joined up and posted here for your first time.

Indeed, I am.

Always nice to have another fellow gardener from the Bay State join us, too.

[svalli]

Tom,
I wish you could be able to send tubers overseas. I would gladly pay double and the cost of shipping just to be able to try some of your varieties from tubers.

Craig,
In Wisconsin All Blue grew well and the potatoes are easier to peel than the Peruvian Purple. The fingerlings I tried were Rose Finn Apple and Russian Banana, which were good too.

Sari

[darwinslair]

Originally Posted by svalli

Tom,
I wish you could be able to send tubers overseas. I would gladly pay double and the cost of shipping just to be able to try some of your varieties from tubers.

Craig,
In Wisconsin All Blue grew well and the potatoes are easier to peel than the Peruvian Purple. The fingerlings I tried were Rose Finn Apple and Russian Banana, which were good too.

Sari

He can mail you seeds. Just not tubers.

Give it a try.

Tom Kleffman

[Bama mater]

Tom, 1lb box for $10 sounds good. What about 3lbs for $20 and or 5lbs for $30? Just a thought.

[svalli]

Originally Posted by darwinslair

He can mail you seeds. Just not tubers.

Give it a try.

I have TPS from Tom, but I would love to grow also tuber varieties selected by him, since the TPS can have quite surpricing results.

This seasons first two true potato seeds have sprouted and tubers from previous sesons TPS are in root cellar so I have plenty of new varieties to grow, but I am getting addiceted to growing a lot of different potatoes. Potatoes are easier to grow up here than tomatoes, so I have now found my self a new obsession .

Sari

[Medbury Gardens]

i know what you mean svalli,this summer here has been a really cloudy & cool,hopeless for any descent tasting tomatoes but my potatoes on the other hand have never been so good.

[shatbox]

I don't have a lot of room to grow so I usually have to go to farmers' markets to buy a few potatoes to plant. 1lb box would be great!

sBox

[mdvpc]

Tom-I am going to watch this thread to see what you decide-I am thinking about growing in a container some of your potato varieties. Never grown them before.

[Dukerdawg]

Tom, I also want to try tubers and don't need an 8lb box. A smaller package sounds appealing to me as well. Let us know what you decide.

Duane