Moie-Moie across the pond - Page 8

wmontanez · March 9, 2012

Hi Richard! I got your address yes.
I am going to follow my own procedure again, chill until late April and plant early May with the rest of the potatoes

year round potato fun. Exactly what I dream off.

wingnut · March 9, 2012

Great Job! Some of them are pretty good sized tubers. Most I produce are dime sized, but I use 4" pot as largest size.

wmontanez · March 9, 2012

Wingnut thanks, send me your address please and agree with statement (I need to send you this tuber for future tissue cleaning)

owiebrain · March 9, 2012

Thanks, Wendy! I'd love to give the itty-bitties a try. And, yes, I understand the risks of STDs (spudually-transmitted diseases) and associated zombie attacks.

wingnut · March 10, 2012

Wendy, my address is on your incomeing package. I think alot of cleaning can be done with a BRIGHT light, razorblade, and bleach. Useing Sterile potting soil, vector free growing area, and some thermal techniques, I believe you can get pretty clean material. I will be growing pull sprouts, sprout jacks, and tubers from the same material to judge differences in yield and freedom from visible disease signs. I hypothesize that the sprout jacks will yield best with the tubers yielding worse. I have also taken sprout jacks from tubers I harvested from obviously diseased plants to see whether they give a healthy plant with a good yield, or a diseased one with poor yield.

owiebrain · March 10, 2012

Wingnut, what is a sprout jack? Thanks!

wmontanez · March 12, 2012

I want to ship them this Friday so everybody has time to chill them and plant. I am waiting for your agreement statement and PM the shipping address.

People marked in red I have your address if it has changed tell me, all others please read message #104

1. Renny1
2. Farmette
3. Wingnut got it
4. Tom Wagner
5. Marktutt
6. Indyartist
7. AzGirl
Closed offer no 8 or 9
10. Owiebrian (very small tubers only available if you still want it) got it
Of course I got the rest of the tubers.

TPS sign up in the event I produce Open Pollinated TPS
1. Salix
2. Medbury Gardens got it.
3. Tom Wagner
4. Gunnarsk
5. Cortona got it

wmontanez · March 17, 2012

Packages are in the mail.! Please let me know when your recieve it.

The people that the font above is red I got a response from you. I still need 2 other addresses. My small hazelnut size tuber and another 1 pea size and a ultra small less than a pea size went into the refrigerator to trick it to break dormancy. They will remain there until April 15 or so.

Good luck everyone and please share results if you have time

Farmette · March 17, 2012

So I want to make sure I understand this correctly. When I get it, I should place it in the fridge and that will make it sprout? In the past I have put spuds in sandy soil, cool garage and they have sprouted. Right now I have tubers in fridge from last year, was going to take them out and do the sandy soil thing. Please advise.
Thanks!

wmontanez · March 18, 2012

Hi Farmette,

Over post #104 I gave a timeline of what I did with this slip at the end of June through harvest in early March.

As you may remember Richard sent it right after his harvest . When I got it I put in soiless media moist but it sat there ~2 weeks maybe more doing nothing. I moved it to the crisper in fresh soiless media moist because I was taking vacations at the end of July. It sat there for 1 month and I tool it out in early September.

It took over 2 weeks more to show sign of breaking dormancy. And the rest was 5 months of wait under 12hrs lights until the harvest.

So this time around I decided to repeat the above but go straight to cold storage to try to trick it again to break dormancy earlier. I don't know if it will be the same this time around but according to the New Zealand folks this variety last a long time without sprouting and I want to avoid dehydration that's why I put the moist soiless media.

Maybe your sandysoil cool garage storage is the same!?! I would like to have input from the NZ folks to see what they think?

owiebrain · March 18, 2012

My husband might finally have me committed when he discovers I'm keeping bags full of dirt in the fridge this spring...

Farmette · March 18, 2012

I figure if my husband can keep his fishing bait (think leaches, earthworms, waxworms, etc) in the garage fridge, then I can keep ANYTHING I wish in there!

Medbury Gardens · March 19, 2012

Good on you you ladies,you tell them hey.

Wendy - i'm thinking that maybe about 6 weeks in the cold storage would be better

wmontanez · March 19, 2012

Mine does not try anymore... ...
Richard, that is my line of though, thanks!

wingnut · March 19, 2012

Thanks for the taters Wendy! They look great.

March 9, 2012	#106
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	Hi Richard! I got your address yes. I am going to follow my own procedure again, chill until late April and plant early May with the rest of the potatoes year round potato fun. Exactly what I dream off. __________________ Wendy

March 9, 2012	#108
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	Wingnut thanks, send me your address please and agree with statement (I need to send you this tuber for future tissue cleaning) __________________ Wendy

March 9, 2012	#109
owiebrain Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: northeastern Missouri Posts: 94	Thanks, Wendy! I'd love to give the itty-bitties a try. And, yes, I understand the risks of STDs (spudually-transmitted diseases) and associated zombie attacks. __________________ Diane CrackpotHippie.com

March 10, 2012	#111
owiebrain Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: northeastern Missouri Posts: 94	Wingnut, what is a sprout jack? Thanks! __________________ Diane CrackpotHippie.com

March 12, 2012	#112
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	Waiting for PM's I want to ship them this Friday so everybody has time to chill them and plant. I am waiting for your agreement statement and PM the shipping address. People marked in red I have your address if it has changed tell me, all others please read message #104 1. Renny1 2. Farmette 3. Wingnut got it 4. Tom Wagner 5. Marktutt 6. Indyartist 7. AzGirl Closed offer no 8 or 9 10. Owiebrian (very small tubers only available if you still want it) got it Of course I got the rest of the tubers. TPS sign up in the event I produce Open Pollinated TPS 1. Salix 2. Medbury Gardens got it. 3. Tom Wagner 4. Gunnarsk 5. Cortona got it __________________ Wendy Last edited by wmontanez; March 31, 2012 at 02:59 PM. Reason: response

March 9, 2012	#107
wingnut Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: bald hill area thurston county washington Posts: 312	Great Job! Some of them are pretty good sized tubers. Most I produce are dime sized, but I use 4" pot as largest size.

March 10, 2012	#110
wingnut Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: bald hill area thurston county washington Posts: 312	Wendy, my address is on your incomeing package. I think alot of cleaning can be done with a BRIGHT light, razorblade, and bleach. Useing Sterile potting soil, vector free growing area, and some thermal techniques, I believe you can get pretty clean material. I will be growing pull sprouts, sprout jacks, and tubers from the same material to judge differences in yield and freedom from visible disease signs. I hypothesize that the sprout jacks will yield best with the tubers yielding worse. I have also taken sprout jacks from tubers I harvested from obviously diseased plants to see whether they give a healthy plant with a good yield, or a diseased one with poor yield.

March 17, 2012	#113
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	Packages are in the mail.! Please let me know when your recieve it. The people that the font above is red I got a response from you. I still need 2 other addresses. My small hazelnut size tuber and another 1 pea size and a ultra small less than a pea size went into the refrigerator to trick it to break dormancy. They will remain there until April 15 or so. Good luck everyone and please share results if you have time __________________ Wendy

March 17, 2012	#114
Farmette Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2009 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 985	So I want to make sure I understand this correctly. When I get it, I should place it in the fridge and that will make it sprout? In the past I have put spuds in sandy soil, cool garage and they have sprouted. Right now I have tubers in fridge from last year, was going to take them out and do the sandy soil thing. Please advise. Thanks!

March 18, 2012	#115
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	Sprouting dormant tubers Hi Farmette, Over post #104 I gave a timeline of what I did with this slip at the end of June through harvest in early March. As you may remember Richard sent it right after his harvest . When I got it I put in soiless media moist but it sat there ~2 weeks maybe more doing nothing. I moved it to the crisper in fresh soiless media moist because I was taking vacations at the end of July. It sat there for 1 month and I tool it out in early September. It took over 2 weeks more to show sign of breaking dormancy. And the rest was 5 months of wait under 12hrs lights until the harvest. So this time around I decided to repeat the above but go straight to cold storage to try to trick it again to break dormancy earlier. I don't know if it will be the same this time around but according to the New Zealand folks this variety last a long time without sprouting and I want to avoid dehydration that's why I put the moist soiless media. Maybe your sandysoil cool garage storage is the same!?! I would like to have input from the NZ folks to see what they think? __________________ Wendy

March 18, 2012	#116
owiebrain Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: northeastern Missouri Posts: 94	My husband might finally have me committed when he discovers I'm keeping bags full of dirt in the fridge this spring... __________________ Diane CrackpotHippie.com

March 18, 2012	#117
Farmette Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2009 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 985	I figure if my husband can keep his fishing bait (think leaches, earthworms, waxworms, etc) in the garage fridge, then I can keep ANYTHING I wish in there!

March 19, 2012	#118
Medbury Gardens Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Medbury, New Zealand Posts: 1,881	Good on you you ladies,you tell them hey. Wendy - i'm thinking that maybe about 6 weeks in the cold storage would be better __________________ Richard

March 19, 2012	#119
wmontanez Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: MA Posts: 776	Mine does not try anymore... ... Richard, that is my line of though, thanks! __________________ Wendy

March 19, 2012	#120
wingnut Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: bald hill area thurston county washington Posts: 312	Thanks for the taters Wendy! They look great.