TPS seedling self seeded!

wmontanez · July 23, 2012

I found this cute plant in my garlic bed.

Don't know how it got there or what is the variety. Some feral plant I guess from any berry that was stolen by critters or fell in the ground and I somehow carried the seed there last fall. Since is self seeded I found it today and mound it, gave it a good watering and name it PotLuck. This is the first from my landrace series.

wingnut · July 23, 2012

Looks like OCA in the background!?!?

wmontanez · July 23, 2012

its a weed...

Medbury Gardens · July 24, 2012

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Originally Posted by wingnut

Looks like OCA in the background!?!?

Thats what i thought also Doug

Quite fun those feral plants hey Wendy,not knowing what you will end up with

wmontanez · July 31, 2012

I looked at OCA plants online and those weeds do look like them. I have no idea what they are I have them around, it does have a small yellow flower, stays small and likes shaded areas.

Yes the potato plant could be a small tuber that fell or got somehow but it a good bonus nevertheless.

**Tom Wagner** · July 31, 2012

Wendy,

I have looked for years for evidence of TPS coming up on their own with seedlings as feral volunteers. Don't ask me why that is the case for me...but every time I, too, thought I had a real seedling from true seed...it turned out to be a tiny shoot coming up from a volunteer tuber. Until I visit South American and look for myself in the wild....how do the diploids and
Solanum tuberosum subsp. andigenum
reproduce as seedlings? Is it because they don't have winters down there and the seedlings emerge whenever the true seed sprouting inhibitors diminish months/years later?

wingnut · July 31, 2012

Tom I have been haveing TPS germination in last years bed. They are DEFINATELYseedlings and not small sprouts from tiny tubers. Many have germinated in the last week or so.

wmontanez · July 31, 2012

If it resembles any of the ones I have then is a small tuber left behind, very possible. If not then is just a bonus plant. If there was one berry I would have expected to have clusters of plants not a single one. I'll nurture it to see what I get. I might through one berry to a bed and see if it self-seed and germinate next spring!

**Tom Wagner** · August 3, 2012

If you think you have a volunteer TPS seedling....place your index finger down the side of the plant into the ground. If there is a stem underground...it is not a seedling...it is from a tuber.

However, if you detect nothing bt roots and no stems...it may be a seedling. Also the first few leaves are simple leaves...not compound leaves as from a tuber.

Here are a few of my rare TPS seedlings coming up on their own.

salix · August 4, 2012

I have also had TPS plants self-seed, two and three years later. As you say, the first leaves are simple ones. Actually, they are just becoming another weed! The very first time I grew out TPS plants, there were thousands of berries produced - they flowered profusely for several months, very ornamental.

July 23, 2012	#1
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	TPS seedling self seeded! I found this cute plant in my garlic bed. Don't know how it got there or what is the variety. Some feral plant I guess from any berry that was stolen by critters or fell in the ground and I somehow carried the seed there last fall. Since is self seeded I found it today and mound it, gave it a good watering and name it PotLuck. This is the first from my landrace series. __________________ Wendy

July 23, 2012	#3
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	its a weed... __________________ Wendy

July 31, 2012	#5
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	I looked at OCA plants online and those weeds do look like them. I have no idea what they are I have them around, it does have a small yellow flower, stays small and likes shaded areas. Yes the potato plant could be a small tuber that fell or got somehow but it a good bonus nevertheless. __________________ Wendy

July 31, 2012	#8
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	If it resembles any of the ones I have then is a small tuber left behind, very possible. If not then is just a bonus plant. If there was one berry I would have expected to have clusters of plants not a single one. I'll nurture it to see what I get. I might through one berry to a bed and see if it self-seed and germinate next spring! __________________ Wendy

August 4, 2012	#10
salix Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: north central B.C. Posts: 2,310	I have also had TPS plants self-seed, two and three years later. As you say, the first leaves are simple ones. Actually, they are just becoming another weed! The very first time I grew out TPS plants, there were thousands of berries produced - they flowered profusely for several months, very ornamental. __________________ "He who has a library and a garden wants for nothing." -Cicero

July 23, 2012	#2
wingnut Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: bald hill area thurston county washington Posts: 312	Looks like OCA in the background!?!?

July 31, 2012	#6
Tom Wagner Crosstalk™ Forum Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 8407 18th Ave West 7-203 Everett, Washington 98204 Posts: 1,157	Wendy, I have looked for years for evidence of TPS coming up on their own with seedlings as feral volunteers. Don't ask me why that is the case for me...but every time I, too, thought I had a real seedling from true seed...it turned out to be a tiny shoot coming up from a volunteer tuber. Until I visit South American and look for myself in the wild....how do the diploids and Solanum tuberosum subsp. andigenum reproduce as seedlings? Is it because they don't have winters down there and the seedlings emerge whenever the true seed sprouting inhibitors diminish months/years later?

August 3, 2012	#9
Tom Wagner Crosstalk™ Forum Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 8407 18th Ave West 7-203 Everett, Washington 98204 Posts: 1,157	If you think you have a volunteer TPS seedling....place your index finger down the side of the plant into the ground. If there is a stem underground...it is not a seedling...it is from a tuber. However, if you detect nothing bt roots and no stems...it may be a seedling. Also the first few leaves are simple leaves...not compound leaves as from a tuber. Here are a few of my rare TPS seedlings coming up on their own.