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Blue Victor TPS Harvest
The harvest of Blue Victor TPS was the highest yielding blue potato that I grew in 2015. The Blue Victor plant also flowered and produced berries. The tubers are fairly nice, but they do not have exceptionally dark flesh color. I am keeping this one to grow in 2016, but I plan to drop it…
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Blue Shetland (Shetland Black) TPS Harvest
In 2015, I grew two plants from TPS labeled as Blue Shetland. Apparently, Blue Shetland potatoes are also known as Shetland Black (correct me if you know otherwise.) Either way, the tubers that I harvested were really unexpected. The first plant produced the tubers pictured below; a strange double lumped/ hourglass tuber shape. I like…
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Amarilla TPS Harvest
Both of these plants had very nice yields for first year TPS seedlings. They also demonstrate the variations that are found in TPS from one seed to the next.
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Skagit Beets TPS Harvest
One of my favorite colors in a potato is red skin/red flesh. However, this seems to be a somewhat rare combination. Most of the potatoes that are supposed to be “red flesh” have produced tubers with pink flesh when grown in my garden. Plants from Skagit Beets TPS have the potential to produce tubers with red skin and red flesh. So far,…
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Diamond Toro TPS Harvest
What is the maximum harvest that can be expected from one TPS plant? I don’t have a final answer for that question but clearly these two Diamond Toro TPS harvests are raising the bar. This is yet another Tom Wagner TPS variety. I really admire all of the work that he has done with potato breeding…
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Pig Knuckles TPS Harvest
These two sets of tubers were harvested from a Tom Wagner TPS variety called Pig Knuckles. Both plants produced fingerling shaped tubers which had red skin and some color in the flesh. The golden-pink fleshed tubers had a slightly higher yield, and I will be keeping some of these to grow again next year. Potatoes with more intense colors in…
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Carola x Ad. Blue TPS Harvest
Here is the harvest from Carola TPS that I saved from last year. The berries were produced on Carola potatoes but every plant that I have grown from these seeds has produced tubers with some amount of blue flesh. The only blue fleshed potato that was grown nearby was Adirondack Blue. Therefore, I concluded that the seeds must have…
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Hedge Rose TPS Harvest
The TPS harvest continues with some potatoes grown from Tom Wagner’s seeds. These are a variety of TPS named Hedge Rose. The description from his website is “Round reds with either red or white flesh.” This refers to what types of potatoes that you can expect to harvest when you plant these seeds. Remember, it is impossible to predict the…
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Elongated Red Diploid TPS Harvest
The TPS harvest continues… The two ERD plants that have been growing side by side all season have finally been harvested. The ERD #1 plant had pink flowers which produced the berries shown in the lower right-hand corner of the photo. The ERD #2 plant had white flowers and produced a couple berries which were smaller…
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Adirondack Blue TPS Harvest
On March 30, 2015, I planted a tiny seed. After three months of care, here is the result. I harvested these potatoes from a single Adirondack Blue TPS plant. The plant was pretty small compared to other TPS seedlings, so I decided to dig it up. It was only about a foot tall without any side branches, so…