@Marktutt
I am interested in Black Irish...will keep an eye on your results! lovely assortment
@Durgan
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"what purpose? Can we expect a new improved potato, whatever that means?"
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New or improved both can be achieved. To explaining True potato seeds is complex but the simplest way to talk about it is saying that TPS are the real seeds of a potato..not the tuber you plant...that tuber is just a storage tissue that sprouts and you get a clone. So like a hybrid tomato seed.... TPS is what has diversity in it so ultimately that is how new varieties are discovered. In Peru there are over 4000 named varieties (Andes region is where the potato originates from).
Over the time by selecting and narrowing down the diversity, we by various reasons have reduced the options out there. Some people like big potatoes near the stem then other like russets...in USA that is the case....so what a typical person find in the store is so limited.
My motivation is to eat better tasting potatoes, grow potatoes that nobody else has grown and to learn and share the knowledge and passion about growing a very important crop.