TPS Potato Reveal #3 Sarpo Duro Crosses with a Record Breaking Seedling!
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- čas přidán 6. 10. 2018
- In this video we are digging true potato seedlings from a cross of Sarpo Duro with a bulk pollen mix. The pollen parents included in the mix were Chellan, Chaposa, Sarpo Duro, Fiesta Gold, DG-D8-330, Tollocan, Monstruo Azul, and Azul Rose. Essentially we cleaned up this row of Sarpo Duro crosses after digging many of them in TPS Potato Reveal #2. This time the results were a lot more interesting, demonstrating that when you are growing potatoes from TPS (true potato seed), the seedlings from the same parents will often show a huge variation in color, shape, size, and yield among other things.
We ended up harvesting two seedlings that yielded over our 2 pound cutoff limit, one pink skinned fingerling that yielded 2 pounds 10 ounces, and a personal high yield seedling with a violet skinned russet with a yield of 8 pounds! - Jak na to + styl
You have opened my eyes to how diverse and cool potatoes are! Thank you!!!
I'm really enjoying your potato project. Thanks for sharing!
That's good to hear, I've got tons of potato videos in the near future.
You are right :) I'd be very excited to find such a huge purple harvest from a TPS plant. That's a winner!
It's always the one colour you don't want giving the best yield 🤣 Murphy's potato law.
Its funny how we are doing similar potato stuff but the colors we want are different. I really like that "boring yellow flesh" you are sick of, but my understanding is that potatoes in Europe are majority yellow flesh, while over here they were ALL white before they introduced Yukon Gold. So yellow is still kind of a novelty, although there are tons of yellow varieties now. I do think I'd like a violet potato if it had bright yellow eye splotches like your Apache. There is a new variety over here called "pinto" that is similar to your Apache in color, I may try some, although I have no clue if it is fertile.
It's pretty much all yellow flesh here and some whites. If we are lucky we can buy some red skin varieties, but still yellow flesh lol and a lot of 'all purpose' types. Good for everything, but perfect for nothing. Very starchy or very waxy types are not too common on the shelves. People don't really make Knödel, mash, potato salad or own fries anymore, they buy ready made products mostly, so they don't miss these varieties I guess. But I make all those things at home and really don't like it when my potato salad falls apart or the mash turns out slimy instead of fluffy. I want my niche specialty potatoes back lol sorry for the foodie rant.
That's why I am mostly looking for coloured flesh potatoes in my seedlings and special cooking features. I enjoy funny looking unique foods and plant breeding, and if I can't buy something I'll just breed my own.
Breeding plants is all about personal preference, one persons owl is the others holy grail lol That's why food diversity needs to be kept alive, so everyone can find their favourite.
So most European commercial varieties are medium textured? I guess we maybe were lucky in N. America that Russet Burbank became one of the market class standards then. For all of RB's many , many flaws, it is an excellent flavored potato and is extremely high in dry matter/floury. So there has always been a demand here for very floury potatoes. RB is a really lousy potato in a lot of ways, it is very fussy to grow well, and is extremely disease prone to almost all the viral and fungal diseases, but it maybe kept the market more varied?
Yes, it's a sad mass of medium textured ones. There are just a few floury ones or waxy ones available and talking to the grocery staff, they sell very little of them. Main bulk is bland mediums in all characteristics lol medium size, medium shape, medium yellow and medium texture. Rapidly loosing food culture.
Hey Torp. I had to go look up what "Knödel" was. It looks interesting, that's not something I think I've ever had. What do you think of this video recipe? czcams.com/video/Li9AHBGxXf8/video.html
I would be interested in a tuber to grow out! Wonderful harvest from a seed grown plant. Congratulations.
I've recently aquired an old variety believed to have arrived in Canada around 1880 with Scottish settlers. It has many names, cow horn, La Crotte D'Ours, long blues etc, but very hard to come by. Can get up to a foot long, purple skin and white flesh and grows in shape of a cow horn as the name suggests, and I've heard, extremely tasty. So excited to grow them out. Hoping to cross flowers with a couple other favourites.
That sounds interesting where did you aquire them?
Local Seed company here in Alberta called A'bunadh seeds.
I've come to the conclusion, that it will be necessary to breed my own like Torp and Oxbow farms are doing, if I want to find the qualities I'm looking for. I want a super looong season spud like Sarpo Mira that tastes great and has a neat colour. Finally started keeping my own seed this year.
@@debgarnett2468 perfect, I'll look them up.
@@debgarnett2468 we should do some seed trading.
That yield on the last one was monstrous. Did it make the cut to grow again? They are very pretty but I'm a sucker for purple foods lol
Yeah, this is way over the cut. Its got some problems like I said, but I've got to give it a shot next year I think. See what its like from a tuber.
Incredible 1st year TPS result in those Sarpos. I'll be watching to see what comes out of your 2nd gen TPS, as well as any seed potatoes you may have over-wintered. Well done! 🌱🐝
All the hard work pays off!!!
That purple skinned, white flesh potato - market it as a "kitchen pot potato" if commercial growers aren't going to be keen on mass production.
"kitchen pot potato"; a potato variety that people can grow in pots or grow bags at home, even in an apartment, for personal kitchen use.
Great video. Its fascinating to grow from TPS. Its so hard to get other people interested though. Our Bumble Bees have created many new varieties over the years. If a potato does not set fruit then I will not grow it as I believe there is some deficiency whether nutritional or not if they do not set fruit. Massive thumbs up for this vid, It would be awesome to see if you could propagate the big ones. That high yielding one looks awesome!
Failure to fruit is often due to male sterility, but potato flowers also abort if the temps go much above 85 deg F, so lots of areas of the USA are too hot in the summer for reliable potato berry production.
@@oxbowfarm5803 Yes that is very true as well. There are many pointer factors involved. In their native lands Some have adapted to the extremes as they fruit and flower at both higher and lower elevations in Peru for example. Its just finding the right potato for your local environment. The only way to do that is do exactly what we are doing and grow from TPS If you keep doing what you are doing, then you have a good chance of breeding a potato that is suitable for high temp regions. Or at least less susceptible to wide variations. There are potatoes that have been negatively produced for so long now that they have forgotten how to flower. Its them ones that I do not trust as simple diseases like blight can wipe them out in a season. Thats what caused the potato famine in Ireland.
Have you ever grown any Sarpo Mira Seed Potatoes ?
Will you have any potatoes for sale to plant?
Hi, that was a nice harvest have you tried them out for flavour ? I was just wondering have you ever got a really good looking potato but didn't get the 2lbs min and kept it to grow again ?
Yes, I only started ramping up my TPS growing to this many seedlings about 3 years ago. Before that I was only growing a couple of seedlings out so I kept anything halfway decent. Also with the diploids my cutoff is different. I'd be much more interested in keeping ones with the skin and flesh color I like, no matter the yield, because I'm trying to find ones with reasonable dormancy. So dormancy and visible traits are more important than yield for me in that case. It all depends.
How can I obtain this record-breaking variety?
Question, what was the characteristics of the original plant that produced the seeds that produced these potatoes?
Sarpo Duro is a brown/pink skinned potato with very light yellow flesh. It was a seedling tuber from Sarpo Mira selected by Tom Wagner. This seed that resulted in the Sarpo Duro crosses was a 2016 cross with Sarpo Duro as the mother and it was pollinated by a bulk pollen mixture of about a dozen different potatoes I was growing in the same field. Any of the purples would mean those seeds were the result of pollen from either of several purple skinned potatoes I included in the bulk pollen mix. One was Tom Wagner's Azule Rose, the other name variety was my Monstruo Azul, which was itself a seedling out of Azule Rose, and several sibling plants of Monstruo Azul. The full bulk pollen mix included Chaposa, Sarpo Mira, Sarpo Duro, Fiesta Gold, Kameraz (not sure if this one had sterile pollen), DG-D8-330, several Red Ox TPS plants, Azule Rose, Several Azule Rose TPS plants including Monstruo Azul.
Awesome thanks so much for sharing your videos!I'm so excited to grow tps, I just need help getting seed. I left my email in my other comment and I am willing to trade for other seeds.God bless!
Promise not to tell
Your need for two buckets to weigh your potatoes reminded me of a 'weigh in' I did earlier this year. Check out the Vales Sovereign grown from store bought potatoes: czcams.com/video/u_ZWIK98G4U/video.html
Care to sell a couple? I'd love to grow these out again next year.
For "Canadian Trials" ? Agri-Canada might get mad at you.
Great minds think alike... I was thinking I need to go for a visit in the spring, and come back with a few in my lunch bag...
I’d definitely buy “seed potatoes” of this new variety you created from “true potato seeds.” Very cool. Keep up the good work.
You must cut the flower of potatos trees sir... if not your potatos will be small and not many because the flower get so much nutrition... eccept you want plant potatos from the seed of friuts.. u can try...
You are incorrect. Flowers and fruits do NOT impact yields. Removing them is unnecessary and I never ever do so.
@@oxbowfarm5803 really.... but i know about this from farmer in my country... indonesia potato's farmer do this for their garden... they get min 3 kg from 1 potatos... and 7 or 8 kg for max...
But u can do anything what u want sir...
And i like your video...
@@mulyanimayangsari All I can say is that I am a farmer, and I raise potatoes every year. Removing flowers and fruits will not increase yields, and leaving them on will not decrease yields.