Intresting TPS seedling

delito8 · April 18, 2013

I grew some of those tps seeds this spring that I got from wmontanez few years back. Other seedlings look very normal, but there is two seedlings with very narrow leaves! They don't look like potatoes at all.
Their pots are new and all other seedlings are just fine and these ones grow too, just a bit slower than the others so what could cause this?
I hope they survive, it would be interesting to see what they could produce.

What do you think?

wmontanez · April 18, 2013

interesting... never seen this

**Tom Wagner** · April 21, 2013

These kinds of thing show up frequently for me...never know for sure if it is caused by a virus or just a mutation or genetic quirk. Most of the time these are thrown away as soon as seen as to not infect other seedlings. When I did save them...in the distant past....these kinds of oddities never amount to much. Most of the time they would die before making tubers.

delito8 · April 23, 2013

Ok, thank you Tom! Maybe I'll save them a bit longer just to see if they survive. I'm too curious to throw them away

April 18, 2013	#1
delito8 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Finland Posts: 21	Intresting TPS seedling I grew some of those tps seeds this spring that I got from wmontanez few years back. Other seedlings look very normal, but there is two seedlings with very narrow leaves! They don't look like potatoes at all. Their pots are new and all other seedlings are just fine and these ones grow too, just a bit slower than the others so what could cause this? I hope they survive, it would be interesting to see what they could produce. What do you think?

April 18, 2013	#2
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	interesting... never seen this __________________ Wendy

April 21, 2013	#3
Tom Wagner Crosstalk™ Forum Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 8407 18th Ave West 7-203 Everett, Washington 98204 Posts: 1,157	These kinds of thing show up frequently for me...never know for sure if it is caused by a virus or just a mutation or genetic quirk. Most of the time these are thrown away as soon as seen as to not infect other seedlings. When I did save them...in the distant past....these kinds of oddities never amount to much. Most of the time they would die before making tubers.

April 23, 2013	#4
delito8 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Finland Posts: 21	Ok, thank you Tom! Maybe I'll save them a bit longer just to see if they survive. I'm too curious to throw them away