Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
A frost advisory is on for Saturday night, so it is time to harvest any remaining potato berries, I won't have time tomorrow as I'll be scrambling around harvesting peppers and tomatoes and covering things with rowcover etc.
This plant is a TPS seedling descendent of SG, with two possible male parents. One is Wheroroa, and the other is CIP 386286-7. Most of the seedlings from this batch of true potato seed were fairly small and unimpressive, but this plant grew hugely, and in fact overwhelmed and buried 5 other plants in the row under its vines. All the while it set a huge crop of berries. So we'll harvest them and weigh them out to get a yield from this super-fertile potato seedling. Also there's a little bonus shot at the end of some of my other batches of potato berries laid out to after-ripen before I extract the TPS from them.
A frost advisory is on for Saturday night, so it is time to harvest any remaining potato berries, I won't have time tomorrow as I'll be scrambling around harvesting peppers and tomatoes and covering things with rowcover etc.
This plant is a TPS seedling descendent of SG, with two possible male parents. One is Wheroroa, and the other is CIP 386286-7. Most of the seedlings from this batch of true potato seed were fairly small and unimpressive, but this plant grew hugely, and in fact overwhelmed and buried 5 other plants in the row under its vines. All the while it set a huge crop of berries. So we'll harvest them and weigh them out to get a yield from this super-fertile potato seedling. Also there's a little bonus shot at the end of some of my other batches of potato berries laid out to after-ripen before I extract the TPS from them.
