Tom Wagner Sweetpotato question

[DuckCreekFarms]

Tom

I was reading an old forum and you say that you have the blooming clone of Georga Jet. Wonder if I could interest you in doing a trade on something I have in my collection? My GJ is from the US and is actully blooming in the greenhouse right now, but I think the "Blooming" clone is more prolific in it's blooming habit....Is that right?

also still looking for a start of toka toka gold.

I have around 200 varieties .

been doing some hybridizing trying for purple flesh and getting quite a few seeds. Do you know if the purple flesh would be more dominate as a pod parent or a pollen parent?....
thanks
gary

[Tom Wagner]

Golly, it has been four years since I wrote about Toka Toka and Geo. Jet!

The varieties of Sweet Potatoes that I grew last year of different colors matured so late in my cold climate here in the PNW...that I decided that it was not a worthy use of my time. I am swamped with tomato and Irish potato breeding.

As I wrote a number of years ago....sweet potato pedigree info is sparse since male parents are rarely known in obtaining true seed of sweet potatoes. They are self sterile and need other male pollinators and most breeders grow several varieties...often 10/15 varieties and the pollination is like a hybrid swarm.

Details of dominance is sketchy at best but NC would be a must for contacts in this matter.... Kenneth V. Pecota was my cooperator in true seed exchange.

Department of Horticultural Science
Project Leader: Dr. G. Craig Yencho, Associate Professor
Researcher, Kenneth V. Pecota
Research Specialist, Jarred Driscoll
XX

Tablestock Varieties
XX 'Carolina Ruby' - 1999. A red skinned specialty market sweetpotato released by NC State
XX 'Covington' - 2005. A rose skinned tablestock market sweetpotato released by NC State (patent pending)
XXX
Ornamental Varieties released in cooperation with Bodger Seeds/Bodger Botanicals, South El Monte, CA
XX 'Sweet Caroline Light Green' (US PP15,028) - 2004
XX 'Sweet Caroline Green' (US PP15,056) - 2004
XX 'Sweet Caroline Bronze' (US PP15,437) - 2004
XX 'Sweet Caroline Purple' (US PP14,912) - 2004
XX 'Sweet Caroline Green Yellow' (Patent Pending) - 2006
XX 'Sweet Caroline Bewitched Purple' (Patent Pending) - 2006
XX 'Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Light Green' (Patent Pending) - 2006
XX 'Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Purple' (Patent Pending) - 2006
XX 'Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Red' (Patent Pending) - 2006
XX 'Sweet Caroline Red' (US PP17,483) - 2007

My work in sweet potatoes started fifty years ago in Kansas...driving to K-State to get certified sweet potatoes by the bushel. It has been hit and miss since.