My own creation

TZ-OH6 · September 4, 2013

I'm pretty psyched about my first real harvest from a Skagit Valley Gold x Thumb Nose cross saved two years ago and grown out for seed tubers last year. The Ohio State garden fact sheet says to expect 1-2 lb for potatoes around here. I've had a string of problems and am lucky to get that, but my best hill with this new thing was 4.7 lbs with 7 of 23 oblong tubers between 5 and 9 ounces, which I'm guessing is big for a 2n species. SVG never got that big for me, and my Thumb Nose gives me a handfull of peanuts.

This thing is a nice deep yellow flesh with sad pink skin--really good flavor. Late blight swept through and killed my tomatoes but I didn't see any rot on the tubers and only a little damage to the leaves.

Things might have been better, I think, but I didn't 'store' the seed tubers last winter. They sat out in my mud room all winter and were barely alive when I planted them. I won't make that mistake again.

Redbaron · September 5, 2013

Sounds interesting.

meadowyck · September 8, 2013

would love to see a picture if you have some to post?

Congrats

wmontanez · September 9, 2013

bonus that flavor, disease resistance and yields is great. Congrats...the one in 100 found as tps...surprise cause neither parent is huge potato thrower.

TZ-OH6 · September 9, 2013

They are really boring--a dirty pink, like the side border around our Tomatoville icons but darker. They are oblong with no real eyes.

I got several berries with one seed each in them, and then 2-3 more with a handfull of seeds--the curse of not having enough other 2n plants around (wet soil--they didn't come up.)

Its siblings all conked out--poor storage and poor production. I don't have many seeds from 2n parents so I did get lucky!

September 4, 2013	#1
TZ-OH6 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Mid-Ohio Posts: 848	My own creation I'm pretty psyched about my first real harvest from a Skagit Valley Gold x Thumb Nose cross saved two years ago and grown out for seed tubers last year. The Ohio State garden fact sheet says to expect 1-2 lb for potatoes around here. I've had a string of problems and am lucky to get that, but my best hill with this new thing was 4.7 lbs with 7 of 23 oblong tubers between 5 and 9 ounces, which I'm guessing is big for a 2n species. SVG never got that big for me, and my Thumb Nose gives me a handfull of peanuts. This thing is a nice deep yellow flesh with sad pink skin--really good flavor. Late blight swept through and killed my tomatoes but I didn't see any rot on the tubers and only a little damage to the leaves. Things might have been better, I think, but I didn't 'store' the seed tubers last winter. They sat out in my mud room all winter and were barely alive when I planted them. I won't make that mistake again.

September 5, 2013	#2
Redbaron Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 4,488	Sounds interesting. __________________ Scott AKA The Redbaron "Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system." Bill Mollison co-founder of permaculture

September 8, 2013	#3
meadowyck Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2012 Location: Brooksville, FL Posts: 1,001	would love to see a picture if you have some to post? Congrats __________________ Jan “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt

September 9, 2013	#4
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	bonus that flavor, disease resistance and yields is great. Congrats...the one in 100 found as tps...surprise cause neither parent is huge potato thrower. __________________ Wendy