POTATO BERRIES: Loaded for Ber....ries

**Tom Wagner** · November 4, 2012

Carloads of potato berries being boxed up to head out for processing into TPS!
These are berries picked November 2, 2012 near Mt. Vernon, WA and this is just a sample of what I have already picked and much more to pick yet.

The first picture is showing two boxes on the left being SKAGIT DRAGONS, the box on the left is YUNGAY and the box in the back on the right is MURU

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mvVc5.jpg[/IMG]

The picture below shows a single tuber from one of the SKAGIT DRAGONS family and the many berries produced from it. Notice the blue fruit...much like the INDIGO ROSE tomatoes....light mediated purple/blue potato berries. The maternal grandparent of this tuber is SKAGIT VALLEY GOLD and the tuber shows many of the same characteristics. Because these are diploids....all the seed is hybrid seed..since diploids are obligatory outcrossers. Neato!

The YUNGAYS are also hybrid F-1 seed since it has a male sterile trait. Seems YUNGAY flowers are especially attractive to pollen carrying insects. I have grown YUNGAY potatoes in Skagit county for nine years...same as for SKAGIT VALLEY GOLD and the blight resistance is still effective. This is the forth year that SKAGIT VALLEY GOLD has been planted in this very plot...and the blight hits all summer long and only blight resistant potato varieties bloomed profusely this year. Therefore, the hybrid seed is doubly blight resistant!

This very plot had SVG in 2009, it's hybrid SKAGIT MAGIC in 2010, and the next hybrid...SKAGIT DRAGONS ...a family of TPS seedlings of 144 weeded down from 2011 to about 80 for 2012. BTW...crosses of the SKAGIT DRAGONS in this same plot were 90% blight resistant...the best being PUFF..THE MAGIC DRAGON!. Next year I should have all five generations in this plot....
1st gen. SVG
2nd gen. SKAGIT MAGIC
3rd gen. SKAGIT DRAGONS
4th gen. PUFF..THE MAGIC DRAGON
5th gen. TPS seedlings of P..TMD.

November 4, 2012	#1
Tom Wagner Crosstalk™ Forum Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 8407 18th Ave West 7-203 Everett, Washington 98204 Posts: 1,157	POTATO BERRIES: Loaded for Ber....ries Carloads of potato berries being boxed up to head out for processing into TPS! These are berries picked November 2, 2012 near Mt. Vernon, WA and this is just a sample of what I have already picked and much more to pick yet. The first picture is showing two boxes on the left being SKAGIT DRAGONS, the box on the left is YUNGAY and the box in the back on the right is MURU [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mvVc5.jpg[/IMG] The picture below shows a single tuber from one of the SKAGIT DRAGONS family and the many berries produced from it. Notice the blue fruit...much like the INDIGO ROSE tomatoes....light mediated purple/blue potato berries. The maternal grandparent of this tuber is SKAGIT VALLEY GOLD and the tuber shows many of the same characteristics. Because these are diploids....all the seed is hybrid seed..since diploids are obligatory outcrossers. Neato! The YUNGAYS are also hybrid F-1 seed since it has a male sterile trait. Seems YUNGAY flowers are especially attractive to pollen carrying insects. I have grown YUNGAY potatoes in Skagit county for nine years...same as for SKAGIT VALLEY GOLD and the blight resistance is still effective. This is the forth year that SKAGIT VALLEY GOLD has been planted in this very plot...and the blight hits all summer long and only blight resistant potato varieties bloomed profusely this year. Therefore, the hybrid seed is doubly blight resistant! This very plot had SVG in 2009, it's hybrid SKAGIT MAGIC in 2010, and the next hybrid...SKAGIT DRAGONS ...a family of TPS seedlings of 144 weeded down from 2011 to about 80 for 2012. BTW...crosses of the SKAGIT DRAGONS in this same plot were 90% blight resistant...the best being PUFF..THE MAGIC DRAGON!. Next year I should have all five generations in this plot.... 1st gen. SVG 2nd gen. SKAGIT MAGIC 3rd gen. SKAGIT DRAGONS 4th gen. PUFF..THE MAGIC DRAGON 5th gen. TPS seedlings of P..TMD.