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Old October 22, 2013   #1
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Default Harvesting TPS potatoes

Hi everyone,
my TPS project 2013 is done. Yesterday I harvested my potatoes, grewn from TPS. It was a great experience, an will be continued next year.

Progress in my work here:
http://mein-kleiner-garten.ch/main.h...%2F118212.html

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Old October 27, 2013   #2
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They are nice looking potatoes.

The Google translation seems to indicate you are leaving at least some of them in the ground for next year.
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Old October 28, 2013   #3
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Yes, the smallest are for planting. They are to little for eating, I will overwinter them in the ground, in my cold frame. More about next year
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Old November 13, 2013   #4
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Nice Blog Akelei

Very nice to hear that your potatoe-experiment was a success.
Very untypical, that all tubers are the same colour and shape.
from which motherplant did you get your TPS?


Most of my TPS-tubers are still resting under the ground. I will harvest them next weekend so God will and it's not raining again.

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Servus aus der Schweiz!
well, I asked somebody about all the same shape and color. He means, it's probably an etablished variety trought the generations.
The mother-potato is an old variety from Croatien. My friend send me her TPS, but the variety has no name. This is a common practice in Croatien by old vegetables sortes. They are "red", " white" . . .
I harvested my TPS and will sow them next year to see, wat will produced in the next season. It was a first time for me, I also explained more shapes and colors.
Have to be patient till fall 2014. It's a looong time


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Old November 15, 2013   #6
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I'd did realize that any area planted TPS as a regular practice. I find that interesting
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Old November 18, 2013   #7
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As far as I know the genome of TPS is always splitting up even through selfing. The reason, why your tubers are uniform might be, that it's genetic pool is very small in case of year by year selection.

My TPS split up in hundreds of colours and shapes because of a big genetic pool caused by lots of crossings.
This year I started a project crossing phureja types in tuberosum types. So year 2014 will also be a great year for me.

As soon as I have harvested all my TPS Plants I will give you a short sight of my tubers here on tville.
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I'd like to see your potatoes
I asked my friend about mother tuber- it was a white one! I'm still wondering about , what I found in my garden.
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Give me some days. I harvested them all last weekend but I had no time to take pictures and sort them all. As soon as possible I'll take some pictures and post them here. Some are really interesting this year and at the moment I am testing different kinds how they taste.
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If the mother tuber was white, I'm not surprised to see several different phenotypes among its progeny, as I think "white" is recessive.
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