Secret Seed Cartel

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by bluebonnets

BKX is supposed to be Black Krim potato leaf. An improved version because it's reported to have less of a tendency for the fruit to crack. Also potato leaf plants are thought to have a greater disease resistance. This together with the same or better Black Krim flavor. I need to know!

I just read Terry's description on this one and I think she's saying a taste improvenet for her over RL, not that someone did some fooling around with it.
And I'm also assuming that the increased disease tolerance,not resistance, IMO is for foliage diseases only.

I started saying the same many years ago b;c I felt that the upper leaf epidermis was thicker, all to say that some find PL varieties to be more tolerant of foliage diseases and some do not.It also relates to the incidence of foliage pathogens at a specific geographic area in one season,

Carolyn, who loves PL over RL varieties but then one has to consider how a RL variety got to be PL in a genetic sense, and whether any other traits had changed. For me that was an issue with Indian Stripe PL and Orange Minsk PL, and Ithink the only way to tell is to grow both the RL and PL versions of the same variety in the same season,