Did You Know Potatoes Produce Poisonous Berries? | Growing True Potato Seeds (TPS) | Guten Yardening
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Sometimes the potato plants you grow produce little green berries on top. As you might expect, since potatoes are part of the nightshade family, these potato berries are part of the plant that you cant eat. The berries are filled with a glycoalkaloid called solanine. (The same solanine that makes potatoes exposed to the sun turn green).
Though the berry looks like an unripe tomato, the solanine levels inside make it inedible and the berry can actually poison someone who tries to eat it. However, inside those little berries are something very exciting.
While we usually grow potatoes from seed potatoes to ensure that the next generation of potatoes is true to the parent plant, it is also possible to grow potatoes from the true potato seeds inside of these potato berries.
In this video, we talk about everything you should know about potato berries, and some of the reasons why we don't grow potatoes from true potato seeds.
We hope you enjoy this video and learn something new from it.
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Cant wait till mine start producing berries. Id love to harvest true seed from mine.
Wow .. first time hearing and seeing this ..
interesting
Looks like a green tomato
It really does look like a green tomato, but I sure wouldn't taste that great. :D :D Apparently, for those who have actually tasted them (without eating them), they say they are quite bitter. I will not be tasting them. But, we will be experimenting with them.
Thanks, you really educated us.!
Awesome!
I've never got potato berries but that sure sounds like a good experiment. Can't wait to see how it works out.
We have had them before, but never in this quantity. We have plenty of work we are going to do with them in the coming months. :)
I saw these for the first time this year. Can't wait to save some of these seeds to see what happens next year!
Awesome!! It will be a great experiment. Just leave them on there as long as you can. How is your garden shaping up this season?
A very good explanation about the potato berries. Every week I make a short video about potato breeding.
Wonderful! Thank you.
I'm not sure why but this year my plants are crazy with the berries! I never tried saving the seeds, I always heard that heirloom potatoes were a one in a million sort of thing; farmer goes his life growing new potatoes from seed and might get 2 or 3 that stand the test of time. Excited to see where the experiment goes!
Yes, it's been crazy this year with the berries. I think you are right about the fact that we will see a lot of variance in what comes out of our experimentation, but you never know. I just can't wait to see what happens this winter. :)
WOW, THANK YOU. This is my first year trying potatoes, and I found TWO berries today. Didn't have a clue what to do with them until watching this. THANKS, AGAIN!
You are welcome! Thank you so much for watching. Don't be surprised if you see them loaded down in the future, and definitely experiment around with them if you have the space. :)
To me, the potato berries look just like green tomatoes. And the 2 plants are so closely related, I recall seeing "to-pato" plants for sale a very long time ago. They're also called pomatoes, and are tomato plants grafted onto potatoes, so they grow tomatoes above ground and potatoes below ground. By the way, the ENTIRE potato plant is poisonous, except for the tuber, and rotten potatoes give off poisonous gas that has killed entire families when the potatoes were stored in enclosed spaces like basements.
I ordered potatoe seeds from Amazon thinking I was getting starter potatoes . They came as the seeds you showed. Waiting for them to start growing
So, so lucky!
So, finally a quiet time to finish this comment! I have gotten berries before and viable seed! Very fun! I gave plants away to get more results. They are SO MUCH FUN!!! You only get a few but what a ride, no idea what your going to get. If you get berries give it a try. The only thing I could never find an answer to is whether you should hill the plants up like a normal potato plant and whether this would increase yield or not.
We are really excited for this one! Like you said, I don't have a clue how many of these seeds will germinate, etc, but it will be fun, and I think we will likely try a few methods for hilling, etc. depending on the results we get post-germination. We are looking forward to the experiment a lot! :)
I've never seen so many on one plant either.
It's like a bumper crop of potato berries. :D :D Well, let the experimenting begin. :)
Thank You for the information. Good to know.
We just harvested our Ruth Stout potatoes today (video to be released this coming week), and I have never seen so many potato berries. :) We have lots of experiments soon to come. Thank you so much for watching!
Hope we get berries this time.
Did your potatoes flower? If they did, you should look out for berries. If you are low on pollinators, consider hand pollination.
Thanks for watching!
Wow!!!So interesting!!
I must check my plants to see if I have any!
You make this so EXCITING!!
You should! Thanks for watching.
Yes, we can now try to grow our own potato variety.
I am currently trying an experiment with seeds from potato berries. The seeds are just bareley sprouting. It will be interesting to see what happens with them.
We are also planning to do some work with that. I know they can be all over the place when they grow, so I will be very interested in hearing how they do for you!
what's the update?
I'm also curious how your tps did. Mine only had a couple plants survive and then I found grubworms had eaten the plant underneath the dirt so I got not harvest from them.
@@gardeningwithtash2485 that's a bummer, very anti climatic ending. But oh well such is life haha
Wow, I've never seen potato seeds before! I harvested a handful of small potatoes today from one of my buckets, enough for a small meal. : ) I had ordered some of those purple potatoes (seed potatoes) from Menards online. Then a week later my $ was refunded because they were out of stock.
We have so many potato seeds this year. We have never had this kind of quantity. :) As to the purple potatoes, we'll see if we can't send a few your way. :) A small meal of potatoes is still a great experience. :)
@@GutenGardening - Thanks! I love potatoes. I still have a few containers of regular ones going but they're not ready yet. I'm going to plant some more here shortly that I forgot about and the eyes grew.
Sometimes they fall off when they are ripe
Seed berries can mold quickly so taking the seeds out as they ripen before they rott is best
Im not certain if we got any to grow or not
I forget where i plant them and i loose them in the house
But i keep trying lol
Thank you for the advice! We will be doing our first really experiments with them this year, so time will soon tell, hopefully. :) Good luck with yours! :)
@@GutenGardening thanks I didn't get seeds off mine this year but I will be following along to see how you do :)
I think planting them in a labeled pot would have been a good idea instead of in the garden lol
Good luck it's a cool experiment
Do you ever feel ill, after having the poison on your hands?