'pre-nuclear' seed potatoes?

emmers · February 15, 2013

My Irish eyes catalog is offering 'pre-nuclear' (grown from tissue culture) seed potatoes this year, at more than a dollar per itty bitty potato.

I usually buy the small tubers anyway so I can plant them whole(soggy soil in the spring), and I don't know if the pre-nuclear ones are worth a shot. They seem to be saying the normal tubers they sell are several generations descended from the pre-nuclear.

They claim 25-200x yields, but I don't want 200 'large blueberry' size potatoes

Will the pre-nuclear tubers (tubies?) produce full size potatoes? Is there a substantial advantage in vigor, as they claim?

~emmers

February 15, 2013	#1
emmers Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: 9a/Sunset 7 N Cal Posts: 4	'pre-nuclear' seed potatoes? My Irish eyes catalog is offering 'pre-nuclear' (grown from tissue culture) seed potatoes this year, at more than a dollar per itty bitty potato. I usually buy the small tubers anyway so I can plant them whole(soggy soil in the spring), and I don't know if the pre-nuclear ones are worth a shot. They seem to be saying the normal tubers they sell are several generations descended from the pre-nuclear. They claim 25-200x yields, but I don't want 200 'large blueberry' size potatoes Will the pre-nuclear tubers (tubies?) produce full size potatoes? Is there a substantial advantage in vigor, as they claim? ~emmers