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Old June 30, 2011   #14
Tom Wagner
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The sad situation of potato collectors is that we rarely have the same lists of heirloom potato varieties or even commercial potato varieties from another nation. Therefore, I am the wrong person to ask about other pink fleshed potatoes that may exist around the globe. That is the reason I create my own list of pink/red fleshed lines from what diversity I can get. Multiple years of breeding red fleshed lines to unrelated stocks allows me to further what could be available, especially as to TPS. I wish I had full access to each country's heirloom collection...including NZ.

Naturally, I would be happy if someone in NZ had ordered and will get a delivery from Koanga of some of the potato varieties listed on the following site.... The ordering is closed for now.


http://www.koanga.org.nz/shop/seeds/vegetables/potato

Maybe a small tuber of some of these could make their way to the USA?

I need to talk with John Bamberg of the Potato Introduction Station about getting some quarantined potatoes released from a request for the following..
Potato Arran Banner$10.00Out of Stock

Potato - Karoro $10.00Out of Stock
Potato - Kowiniwini$10.00Out of Stock
Potato - Maori$10.00Out of Stock
Potato - Matariki$10.00Out of Stock
Potato - Pink Fir$10.00Out of Stock
Potato - Urenika$10.00Out of Stock
Potato - Whataroa$10.00Out of Stock
Potatoes - Koanga Main Crop$10.00Out of Stock
Potatoes - Paraketia


Each of the above may be very well worth the time to grow but I am almost exclusively interested in getting them involved in broad genetic based crosses, and redistributed as TPS.

If someone like Medbury knows someone who has any of those....
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