Harvesting TPS potatoes

Akelei · October 22, 2013

Hi everyone,
my TPS project 2013 is done. Yesterday I harvested my potatoes, grewn from TPS. It was a great experience, an will be continued next year.

Progress in my work here:
http://mein-kleiner-garten.ch/main.h...%2F118212.html

Best, Akelei

Doug9345 · October 27, 2013

They are nice looking potatoes.

The Google translation seems to indicate you are leaving at least some of them in the ground for next year.

Akelei · October 28, 2013

Yes, the smallest are for planting. They are to little for eating, I will overwinter them in the ground, in my cold frame. More about next year

Akelei

November 13, 2013

Nice Blog Akelei

Very nice to hear that your potatoe-experiment was a success.
Very untypical, that all tubers are the same colour and shape.
from which motherplant did you get your TPS?

Most of my TPS-tubers are still resting under the ground. I will harvest them next weekend so God will and it's not raining again.

Grüße aus Österreich.

Akelei · November 14, 2013

Servus aus der Schweiz!
well, I asked somebody about all the same shape and color. He means, it's probably an etablished variety trought the generations.
The mother-potato is an old variety from Croatien. My friend send me her TPS, but the variety has no name. This is a common practice in Croatien by old vegetables sortes. They are "red", " white" . . .
I harvested my TPS and will sow them next year to see, wat will produced in the next season. It was a first time for me, I also explained more shapes and colors.
Have to be patient till fall 2014. It's a looong time

Akelei

Doug9345 · November 15, 2013

I'd did realize that any area planted TPS as a regular practice. I find that interesting

November 18, 2013

As far as I know the genome of TPS is always splitting up even through selfing. The reason, why your tubers are uniform might be, that it's genetic pool is very small in case of year by year selection.

My TPS split up in hundreds of colours and shapes because of a big genetic pool caused by lots of crossings.
This year I started a project crossing phureja types in tuberosum types. So year 2014 will also be a great year for me.

As soon as I have harvested all my TPS Plants I will give you a short sight of my tubers here on tville.

Akelei · November 20, 2013

I'd like to see your potatoes

I asked my friend about mother tuber- it was a white one! I'm still wondering about , what I found in my garden.
Akelei

November 20, 2013

Give me some days. I harvested them all last weekend but I had no time to take pictures and sort them all. As soon as possible I'll take some pictures and post them here. Some are really interesting this year and at the moment I am testing different kinds how they taste.

GunnarSK · November 20, 2013

If the mother tuber was white, I'm not surprised to see several different phenotypes among its progeny, as I think "white" is recessive.

October 22, 2013	#1
Akelei Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Switzerland Posts: 23	Harvesting TPS potatoes Hi everyone, my TPS project 2013 is done. Yesterday I harvested my potatoes, grewn from TPS. It was a great experience, an will be continued next year. Progress in my work here: http://mein-kleiner-garten.ch/main.h...%2F118212.html Best, Akelei __________________ www.mein-kleiner-garten.ch

October 28, 2013	#3
Akelei Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Switzerland Posts: 23	Yes, the smallest are for planting. They are to little for eating, I will overwinter them in the ground, in my cold frame. More about next year Akelei __________________ www.mein-kleiner-garten.ch

November 14, 2013	#5
Akelei Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Switzerland Posts: 23	Servus aus der Schweiz! well, I asked somebody about all the same shape and color. He means, it's probably an etablished variety trought the generations. The mother-potato is an old variety from Croatien. My friend send me her TPS, but the variety has no name. This is a common practice in Croatien by old vegetables sortes. They are "red", " white" . . . I harvested my TPS and will sow them next year to see, wat will produced in the next season. It was a first time for me, I also explained more shapes and colors. Have to be patient till fall 2014. It's a looong time Akelei __________________ www.mein-kleiner-garten.ch Last edited by Akelei; November 14, 2013 at 03:23 AM.

November 20, 2013	#8
Akelei Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Switzerland Posts: 23	I'd like to see your potatoes I asked my friend about mother tuber- it was a white one! I'm still wondering about , what I found in my garden. Akelei __________________ www.mein-kleiner-garten.ch

October 27, 2013	#2
Doug9345 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Durhamville,NY Posts: 2,706	They are nice looking potatoes. The Google translation seems to indicate you are leaving at least some of them in the ground for next year.

November 13, 2013	#4
aletheia Guest Posts: n/a	Nice Blog Akelei Very nice to hear that your potatoe-experiment was a success. Very untypical, that all tubers are the same colour and shape. from which motherplant did you get your TPS? Most of my TPS-tubers are still resting under the ground. I will harvest them next weekend so God will and it's not raining again. Grüße aus Österreich.

November 15, 2013	#6
Doug9345 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Durhamville,NY Posts: 2,706	I'd did realize that any area planted TPS as a regular practice. I find that interesting

November 18, 2013	#7
aletheia Guest Posts: n/a	As far as I know the genome of TPS is always splitting up even through selfing. The reason, why your tubers are uniform might be, that it's genetic pool is very small in case of year by year selection. My TPS split up in hundreds of colours and shapes because of a big genetic pool caused by lots of crossings. This year I started a project crossing phureja types in tuberosum types. So year 2014 will also be a great year for me. As soon as I have harvested all my TPS Plants I will give you a short sight of my tubers here on tville.

November 20, 2013	#10
GunnarSK Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Warsaw, Poland 52° N Posts: 363	If the mother tuber was white, I'm not surprised to see several different phenotypes among its progeny, as I think "white" is recessive.