Potato breeding - grow your own seed potatoes
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Creating strong and healthy locally adapted varieties is the driving force behind our efforts. We hope this approach will give us resilience in a changing climate and we encourage everyone to do the same, after all we will all be affected differently. Before big seed companies did the job for us, growers would have to develop their own approaches out of necessity. This is where many of our heritage varieties had their beginnings, we are simply rediscovering this special craft.
I have never seen this adorable person in this modern frenzy way of life. Every thing about her is natural. Nice upload and educative to boot. She is right to the point not hitting around the bush. I really enjoyed watching the post.
I did think of taking off the "Fruit" of the potato and doing what you do But I did have limited space to grow lots of spuds, I DID have limited space but with a lot of work last year I have a brand new large bed, so who knows I might finally do it. Thanks for the tips, Great Video as always.
Just get the seeds and wash them. Then dry them on a paper towel in the fridge. You don't need to ferment them at all. I collect my tomato seeds using this method and have close to 100% germination rate.
Nice to look at your potato breeding story. I also breed potatoes and show this on my RUclips channel.
This is brilliant. Really clearly laid out. I can't wait to get these skills under my belt.
Give it a go, it really is easy. Our potatoes have been trialed at Bangor Uni last year by the Savari trust and did pretty well. Year 2 of the trial should give us more info too
Nice!
Does it mean every potato plant's seeds make one new variety? Or do all the plants make one collective variety?
Each seed, even from the same fruit on the same plant, is different so each seedling will be different. Once you have a seedling you like, you then save the tubers (seed potatoes) and then each tuber is identical to the other tubers from the same seedling. Does that make sense?
Great video. Hope you have continued success.
Thanks, the potatoes are now part of a trial which is very exciting
This year I bought some pts. Are you saying it takes at least 2 (or more) years to get from seed, to eatable potatoes? I don't know ANYTHING about saving potatoes for seed.
Our climate is quite cold so it took year one from seed to small tuber, then year 2 to plant the small tuber and get a decent crop. In our year one we had lots of seedlings in small pots to be able to grow hundreds of seedlings out to check for blight resistance but if you planted each seedling with plenty of space you may get bigger tubers
If you have a longer season than ~150 days, you can get sizeable yields on some seedling plants, with some approaching yields of other potatoes grown from tubers. Even so, it is difficult to evaluate for yield in the seedling year. But in shorter season areas, it makes more sense to approach this as your seedling year is to grow seed tubers from the seedlings to be replanted the next year. Then do your initial evaluation of them as grown from tubers and select heavily based on your criteria that would include yield and tuber size. You can evaluate many factors other than yield in the seedling year, such as color, shape, disease resistance.
Those large big pink potatoes look beautiful. Do you sell any of your seed potatoes?
Also where in the uk are you based?
Lovely video. Ive just removed a pod/fruit from one of our potato plants & I'm currently fermentating the seeds
Did you sow the seed? We haven’t grown enough seed potatoes this year to sell them but hope to in the future
Unfortunately, I've still got the seeds. This is our first year trying to grow as much food as possible. It has not been the best year for growing. Lost our iceberg lettuce got slugged. Barley had any ripe tomatoes inc in the polytunnel. I'm not too sure when i should try germinating the tps or the best way to do it@thoseplantpeople530
@@Jacqui-Penit has been a terrible year. Although my perennial plants have done well which just shows the resilience of a perennial food system over an annual one, although I like to have a mix of both
Very Interesting! I have only been growing potatoes for a few years and I've seen flowers but never the seed pods. I did hear that they were poisonous from anther YT channel
I have a collection of diploid true seeds, last years seedlings got taken out by a late frost... I hope I have better luck this year.
I obtained some TPS from open-pollinated supposedly strains that showed blight resistance. My aim is similar to your own and that is to select and create a strain that is suitable for my own local disease pressures.
I am told my TPS is triploid. I chose this TPS because I understand diploid potatoes do not grow very big. Yet yours seem to be a very nice size. Does your own seed selection consider this distinction?
I think they got conventional potatoes as being stock, so most likely it's tetraploid or triploid potatoes they have.
Do you have any seed to sell or share?
where can you get the original seed from?
Hi Gabrielle, we grew out 30 varieties from seed potato (the tubers) we bought at a our local potato day, then saved the fruit to collect the seed to grow on
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