Giant potato flower - Page 2

Mark0820 · July 1, 2012

You are definitely correct about the scent. My Kennebec did have a scent, but it wasn't the most pleasant scent.

GunnarSK · July 1, 2012

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Originally Posted by Mark0820

You are definitely correct about the scent. My Kennebec did have a scent, but it wasn't the most pleasant scent.

I'll have to check out the scent of my potatoes. They bloom abundantly, but there is no berry set (yet).

Medbury Gardens · July 1, 2012

Ive never ever noticed a scent coming from my spud patch,

can see myself being nose down,bum up this coming season checking out the flowers

wingnut · July 3, 2012

This is Toms variety 'poor dog' originally named pokipsie

loeb · July 18, 2012

Could you tell what varietes had that nice smelling flowers? Big flower is great

wingnut · July 18, 2012

Aggie gold has a very nice scent, if not a little overpowering.

loeb · July 18, 2012

Hm I guess I can't get it here.. :/ Well, I will keep smelling others. Always though that potatoe flowers are scentless.. Ornamental colourfull, big flowered and scented AND still tasty potatoes.. that would be something

[and of course blight-resistant ones

]

wingnut · July 18, 2012

Tom can send you seed I'm sure.

Medbury Gardens · July 19, 2012

Wow they look sooo nice,

Also very creative arrangement there Doug,the two eyes,the middle spud with its nostrils and the smile,now come on,did you arrange that intentionally??

wingnut · July 19, 2012

I'd like to say it just happened...but it was planned!

loeb · July 27, 2012

I wonder how many potato varietes have red flowers.. I just imagined that huge flower in other colours, or maybe even double. VERY ornamental.

I hope that your giant flowers will set some berries, wingnut

wingnut · July 27, 2012

I have many berries on a few hundred varieties, includeing this one. Many are ripe enough to pick now ALOT more will be ready to pick by October.

loeb · July 28, 2012

Wow it sounds like a really big breeding plan.

Lot's of possibilities

**Tom Wagner** · July 28, 2012

Trying to find a "RED FLOWERED" potato might be a bit difficult. Most that come close are a reddish violet or pinkish mauve. Oh, and doubled flowers on potatoes....yes...I have some lines with extra petals between the anther cone and the regular petals. I need to take a photo of those. I would have to keep those doubled flowering lines tuber lines since they seem not to set berries so well. That would be a project for the future...seeing if I could self them to concentrate whatever genes are responsible.

Meanwhile...back to red flowers....I named a second year seedling tuber line out of Boyd Dude as BOISE just today. The flowers are not exactly red...see for yourself below....but the brilliant red skin...near yellow/orange flesh seems to carry some linkage for somewhat reddish flowers. The picture below shows my BLACK IRISH potato variety with its white flowers and near black anthers in the background. I made the cross of BOISE X BLACK IRISH moments later.

loeb · July 28, 2012

Both parents look very healthy

I was trying to find that picture again, and now I think that red flowered one was a wild one.
http://www.scri.ac.uk/research/genet...y/cpcdiversity - here on "Figure 3" are some pink flowers
http://www.scri.ac.uk/scri/files/IIP...hnBradshaw.pdf and in that pdf slide nr 20.
So, probably they are unedible..

July 1, 2012	#18
Medbury Gardens Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Medbury, New Zealand Posts: 1,881	Ive never ever noticed a scent coming from my spud patch,can see myself being nose down,bum up this coming season checking out the flowers __________________ Richard

July 18, 2012	#22
loeb Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Poland Posts: 251	Hm I guess I can't get it here.. :/ Well, I will keep smelling others. Always though that potatoe flowers are scentless.. Ornamental colourfull, big flowered and scented AND still tasty potatoes.. that would be something [and of course blight-resistant ones]

July 19, 2012	#24
Medbury Gardens Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Medbury, New Zealand Posts: 1,881	Wow they look sooo nice, Also very creative arrangement there Doug,the two eyes,the middle spud with its nostrils and the smile,now come on,did you arrange that intentionally?? __________________ Richard

July 1, 2012	#16
Mark0820 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Cincinnati Posts: 907	You are definitely correct about the scent. My Kennebec did have a scent, but it wasn't the most pleasant scent.

July 3, 2012	#19
wingnut Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: bald hill area thurston county washington Posts: 312	This is Toms variety 'poor dog' originally named pokipsie

July 27, 2012	#26
loeb Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Poland Posts: 251	I wonder how many potato varietes have red flowers.. I just imagined that huge flower in other colours, or maybe even double. VERY ornamental. I hope that your giant flowers will set some berries, wingnut

July 28, 2012	#28
loeb Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Poland Posts: 251	Wow it sounds like a really big breeding plan. Lot's of possibilities

July 28, 2012	#29
Tom Wagner Crosstalk™ Forum Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 8407 18th Ave West 7-203 Everett, Washington 98204 Posts: 1,157	Trying to find a "RED FLOWERED" potato might be a bit difficult. Most that come close are a reddish violet or pinkish mauve. Oh, and doubled flowers on potatoes....yes...I have some lines with extra petals between the anther cone and the regular petals. I need to take a photo of those. I would have to keep those doubled flowering lines tuber lines since they seem not to set berries so well. That would be a project for the future...seeing if I could self them to concentrate whatever genes are responsible. Meanwhile...back to red flowers....I named a second year seedling tuber line out of Boyd Dude as BOISE just today. The flowers are not exactly red...see for yourself below....but the brilliant red skin...near yellow/orange flesh seems to carry some linkage for somewhat reddish flowers. The picture below shows my BLACK IRISH potato variety with its white flowers and near black anthers in the background. I made the cross of BOISE X BLACK IRISH moments later.

July 28, 2012	#30
loeb Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Poland Posts: 251	Both parents look very healthy I was trying to find that picture again, and now I think that red flowered one was a wild one. http://www.scri.ac.uk/research/genet...y/cpcdiversity - here on "Figure 3" are some pink flowers http://www.scri.ac.uk/scri/files/IIP...hnBradshaw.pdf and in that pdf slide nr 20. So, probably they are unedible..