My own creation
 

I'm pretty psyched about my first real harvest from a Skagit Valley Gold x Thumb Nose cross saved two years ago and grown out for seed tubers last year. The Ohio State garden fact sheet says to expect 1-2 lb for potatoes around here. I've had a string of problems and am lucky to get that, but my best hill with this new thing was 4.7 lbs with 7 of 23 oblong tubers between 5 and 9 ounces, which I'm guessing is big for a 2n species. SVG never got that big for me, and my Thumb Nose gives me a handfull of peanuts.

This thing is a nice deep yellow flesh with sad pink skin--really good flavor. Late blight swept through and killed my tomatoes but I didn't see any rot on the tubers and only a little damage to the leaves.

Things might have been better, I think, but I didn't 'store' the seed tubers last winter. They sat out in my mud room all winter and were barely alive when I planted them. I won't make that mistake again.

Sounds interesting.

would love to see a picture if you have some to post?

Congrats

bonus that flavor, disease resistance and yields is great. Congrats...the one in 100 found as tps...surprise cause neither parent is huge potato thrower.

They are really boring--a dirty pink, like the side border around our Tomatoville icons but darker. They are oblong with no real eyes.

I got several berries with one seed each in them, and then 2-3 more with a handfull of seeds--the curse of not having enough other 2n plants around (wet soil--they didn't come up.)


Its siblings all conked out--poor storage and poor production. I don't have many seeds from 2n parents so I did get lucky!