Potato Reveal #6 Yog Shogoth
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- čas přidán 11. 11. 2018
- This is a potato reveal, but these potatoes were grown from tubers of my highest yielding TPS seedling from 2017. My working title for this clone is Tollocan #11, but I've started calling it Yog Shogoth, after the father of the Dunwich Horror and its little brother in H. P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name. I'm not actually a big fan of Lovecraft, I find him pretty hard to read, but I liked that story and loved the sound of "Yog Shogoth. It also sort of illustrates my ambivalence towards this potato, it is kind of an extreme, unruly, weird potato that I can't make my mind up about whether having it around is a good idea. Kind of like having Yog Shogoth for a son-in-law might result in your grandkids being giant invisible monsters that eat your neighbors cows, which lowers the property values for everyone.
I am trying to become more selective about which potato clones I keep for growing on in following seasons, so I need to get an idea of the average yield per plant. There are differences in the way a potato variety grows in the seedling year compared to grown from a tuber in following seasons. I think you can get a pretty good idea of what the texture, flesh, and skin color will be from a seedling. But the average yield per plant seems to be something you can only truly assess from growing from the tubers, also, the average size and shape and number of the tubers the plant makes can often change relative to the seedling year. It is not at all unusual for the tubers to be larger, and more prone to defects like secondary growth, cracking, and hollow heart, it also seems that tuber grown plants seem to have fewer, larger tubers per plant than seedling plants. This is all based on my own observations, I cannot back any of that up with scientific papers suggesting this is true.
The potato grown in this video produced 4 pounds of ping pong ball sized tubers in its seedling year. This season the average yields seems to be about 2 pounds 3 ounces, but the tubers are much larger in size on average. They aren't all tiny ping pong balls.
It can be difficult to decide which clones to keep and which to drop. This is a good potato from some measures, but it is also a challenging potato to grow, it sprouts long stolons in all directions and produces potatoes 3-4 feet from the seed piece at times. So it is necessary to dig over a large area to find the potatoes. This is a pain. It also produces HUGE plants that flop over in all directions so it can swamp other potato rows or other plants you have adjacent to them. In addition it is a waxy potato with somewhat variably dark purple flesh combined with white. It isn't the most beautiful spud to look at. Should I keep Yog Shogoth and grow it in future seasons? I probably will for at least one more year. It is an unusual variety, and I like unusual potatoes. I probably won't plant anything like this long of a row of them next year though. - Jak na to + styl
Those are a pretty potato. I prefer a starchy potato too.
Yog Shogoth. Sounds very H.P. Lovecraft. I'm getting Cthulhu flashbacks!
Wow, they are pretty inside!
Tollocan's pedigree most likely includes S. demissum, but also has some andigena from the Anita grandparent. Anything else involved is unclear. One parent is Juanita JUANITA=(LOMAN x ANITA), the other parent is 58-ER-1= (LOMAN x HOL 32). Loman and HOL 32 were both bred in the Netherlands, and Anita was bred in Germany from a demissum hybrid. There probably is something else involved, since Tollocan has near durable field resistance to LB. It does have R genes to LB, most likely from the demissum cross, but those are not sufficient to explain durable field resistance. There is something else involved, but it is unclear what that resistance is from. Either unknown R genes, or non R gene LB resistance. Interestingly, the genetics for Tollocan appear to actually have little to do with Mexican wild potato species. genebank.cipotato.org/gringlobal/accessiondetail.aspx?id=22813
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That was fun to watch! Nice harvest, pretty potatoes,
Hi, that didn't seem to be a bad harvest and I thought the size of some was ok. I read the section where you mention these are not scientific results and wondered if you planted a known commercial variety near by it would show if the growing condition for that year had any effect, I think I remember you saying in a previous video that you had an unusual year weather wise. Also in your area (I'm assuming you get snow) when will you need to pull up all your potatoes by ?
Hey Charlie, I don't really have any commercial varieties growing this year so I can't do that kind of comparison. It would be useful to know. Honestly I really wish I had all my potatoes dug already. We are getting really cold weather and I've had some potatoes near the surface ruined by frost. I've been hoping to get some better/drier conditions to dig without all the mud on them, but thats almost certainly a lost cause at this point.
Great video! I love the name and and think the tubers are stunning! Wow!
I’m a huge Lovecraft fan, just made my first Lovecraftian tour of Providence RI a few weeks ago. Lovecraft is a big influence on the intro and outro for my videos. Someone is eventually going to comment regarding this, ...technically the name is “ Yog-Sothoth”, but, We’re talking about fictional names of inconceivable unutterable alien space demons, so it’s fine. I’ll take the Lovecraft reference and name very gladly. I can easily see why you chose this type of name, very fitting indeed. Keep up the good work! 👍🏻👍🏻
I did like the Dunwich Horror, but I just found everything else of his that I've tried to read to be pretty tedious. I actually did Google it and realized I had remembered the name wrong after I filmed the video but Yog-Shogoth has pretty much stuck in my head now and I'm not going to change it. Its not like anyone else is going to grow this potato most likely.
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This kind of potato 🥔 would you be so kind and selling me a small amount. I'm true potato I watch a lot of your videos I don't comment because I'm still learning from your videos please respond thank you and God bless you