Potato "Berry Reveal" - Massive Single-Plant Harvest of Berries for True Potato Seed (TPS)
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- čas přidán 13. 10. 2018
- 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. - Jak na to + styl
I found these on my potatoes today and had no clue what they were. I thought I was going crazy until I found your video and now I know what they are - Thanks for sharing
WOW!!! Just simply WOW!!! This is my first year with TPS and I have a lot to look forward to. Maybe I will have a future plant with a great berry harvest and I will think of your video that inspired me!
Once again, a truly astonishing quantity of TPS!!!
6:50 damn i knew i shouldn't of smoked that blunt before doing this
Berry heaven! I'd just sit there all day and stare at the trays hahaha daydreaming of what they might bring next summer.
That plant really has a crazy production. I hope it won't give you a purple crop ;)
I have not seen the difference in frost resistance between varieties yet. First frost either does not do a thing to any of them or it kills all rows. Never got the right temperature to really see it on my plants. Was hoping for this year, but no. Killed even the Ajanhuiri.
Its fun to look at the trays, but its also a little daunting to contemplate processing it. I am going to try this method I read about on Cultivariable where you run the berries through a coarsely set meat grinder, I have this antique hand crank meat grinder. Then it gets a bit experimental with separating the bulk of the pulp from the seeds. I'm going to try this seive/steamer basket thing I have from some junk sale or other. We'll see.
Its debatable if I would see any vine frost tolerance anyway, I think it is a complex polygenetic trait, and easily lost in crosses.
Can you regrow potatoes from these berries? If so, how?😮🙏
This year I got about 5 berries in total from all my potato plants (first generation of sown potatoes). There were enough flowers but the varieties that I started with had probably low fertility. Hopefully it well get better after a few more generations.
Do you select against male-sterility in the potato varieties you are breeding? Many commercial potato varieties, like Russet Burbank, no longer produce fertile pollen due to cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS).
It is true that many commercial varieties are male sterile, but many common commercially available varieties are male fertile too. Yukon Gold and Katahdin are two male fertile varieties that are really easy to acquire here in the US. The European potato database has variety fertility status listed as a descriptor too, so that is very helpful. To directly answer your question, I don't actively select against male sterility, but I started with breeding material that is overwhelmingly male fertile at the beginning of the project.
Oh my, that was impressive! How many will you take seed from? That amount would produce millions of seed!!
I'm going to extract pretty much all of it. I've got a system down at this point, and all of the sudden a market for the seed. Synergy.
Aha! “Field expedient.” You’re prior-service, huh?!
Vine frost hardy? I would definitely be interested in some of that!
Well, its not a super hardiness, its a slight hardiness. They are supposed to be able to survive frost down to about 30 deg F/-1deg C. The first frost we had ended up being WAY harder than that, so wasn't able to tell if any vine frost hardiness was expressing in any of the CIP 396286-7 seedlings.
Ok so I started growing potatoes in pots in my back patio I live southern Spain, I've now found these berries also I know they dangerous to eat but how do I plant them I assume the seeds inside grow more potatoes
That is a LOT of seed :) CIP 386286-7 I mean really !!! we know it as Bob here :) the thing is it sounded like you have memorized that number ? :) On another note when you get plants that produce that many seeds have you ever tried removing say half or more and seeing if there is any change to the rest ?
Short answer is no, Charlie. This is pretty much the most berries I've ever harvested off a single plant. And to be honest, I don't want to put myself too much out there as a potato expert. I'm much more of a potato enthusiast. There are lots of things I don't know, and likely some things I think I know that are wrong.
That being said, this plant is a bit of an outlier I think in terms of berry production for maybe a couple of reasons. I think it is likely a great pollen producer, because I didn't have a huge amount of flowering in the TPS seedling plot. There were pretty much always a few flowers here and there, but never big masses of them. So that makes me think that the plant was self pollinating itself a LOT, to get this heavy of berry set on so many clusters. I had much heavier blooming over in the tuber patch, so I expect I had lots more crossing over there, as I definitely saw bumblebees working the patch constantly. But for this heavy berry set on this plant, it must have self pollinated often.
It also seemed to like the conditions much more than the other plants in the same seedling lot, and it quickly overtook them and sprawled all over them. So it basically had all the space it wanted because it was elbowing its sibling plants underneath it. So probably if you planted this one in a row with itself from tubers, or in row with a vigorous variety that could compete against it for space, it would most likely not have so much vines or flowers. So it may be a bit of a one off, unless there was some reason to plant this clone by itself with tons of space to grow. But I've got so much seed from this plant already, I don't know why I would need to do that. Nathan is planning on taking some tubers back, to use in breeding potentially anyway.
Have you dug this plant?
not yet.
Maybe if I were single lol! I don't you'd want constant fruit flies flying around you even if you were lol still funny though
Well, when I was in school one of my roommates' girlfriend gave him some veggies which he put on top of the cupboards after she left, I don't know what kind of veggies they were. A couple of weeks later we were playing videogames and someone looked up and said "there are little flies all over the ceiling". They got thicker the closer we got to the kitchen, and we found the bag of ??? vegetables on top of the cupboard, and all the maggots! It melted the cheap top of the cupboard and made it sag. We didn't get our damage deposit back. So we were all living with millions of fruit flies for weeks and never noticed.
I thought the video is for potato 🥔 berry
hi there, would you send me some seeds