Im intrigued with all the unfamiliar traits that have been deselected over the years. Like the long stolem one and the chain potatoe one . Different uses im imagining. Your amazing by the way

the ones you say are sprouting are not really sprouting its just the continuation of the stolon for the purple ones not the reds

Do you still sell oca varieties?

I really like your potato videos. I like all of the interesting potatoes. I also admire that you can get them to grow. I live in San Antonio TX. It's very difficult to get things to grow due to the heat. So I'm working on sweet potatoes and tomatoes. I'm letting them grow as long as possible. I hope for something. So thanks for the video and have a nice day.

You are a god 😅 growing TPS is very tedious & a lot of time & care I had one make it out of 10 😢 8 germinated 1 made it So awesome that you were able to do this so well ❤❤❤

G'Day Rowan, Managed to harvest some berries last season. Some of the fruits dried out, and they seemed to do their breakdown better when put in a water fermentation. Broke down and ended up just planting some whole berries in some potting mix.

Teflon pans are really bad for your health. Lovely video

0:44 I do have the education to do this, just hadn't considered it 😅

Liked and subscribed. Hello from kentucky in u.s.a. Getting my seed potatoes ready and enjoying these reveal videos. Good luck this season!

Black plastic attracts too much heat and potatoes grow best in cooler conditions... maybe that is what was wrong... otherwise, try adding a little bit of sulfur to lower the PH of your soil... Thank you for showing us your fails as well as your success.

Hi from the USA... I love watching your videos.. Thank you for sharing...I am growing my first batch of true potato seed... They are in their first transplant pots now.. will put them in the ground in a few weeks... As I am studying about potatoes, I have found that they like a slightly acidic soil so maybe for your natural soil, you could try adding a bit of sulfur where you want to grow your potatoes... to bring down the ph. Just a possible solution and an easy fix...

Very nice harvest, i just would like you to have a container to put the potatoes in

Good luck! This grass can only be killed off by freezing Australia for six months I fear.

Hi Rowan. It's great to see you're still at it, thanks for the video.

Great video, happy to subscribe!

You said something at the beginning of this video that sounded like you were saying if the potato is already trying to sproute new roots that you can't store it anymore? I haven't heard that before. Can you not just cut off the roots, etc and put it back to dormantcy? THank you, not criticizing but trying to understand this concept better.

Nice to see another video from you. Diploids and in your climate, quite a challenge. Success with it.

I was just wondering where you had got to! Another interesting video. Do you have one which explains the process of growing TPS?

Burnt by the heat 😳

Good morning, Thanks for also upload potato reveals that not goes as you would like, that motivates us to not surrender believe it or not I have a question for you From your experience do you recommend for people who has as much as one week freeze in the winter would you keep no/low dormancy varieties for keeping planting around the year? (edit) In addition I most try tps for growing fall-winter and a the first weeks of spring because my region has springs with 35+ celcius and summer with 45+ celcius so I don't thinks the tiny tps would survive to those temperatures, have you had success with this temps from seed or do you prefer potato seed for more strong plants?

We havent heard from you in a while. Hope all is well. Hope you post again soon.

Thanks for sharing your experience with dealing with Kikuyu. It seems easier to remove in a non heavy clay soil. So what your saying is you would need to starve the dormant roots of the grass for atleast 6 months to kill them off if just using occultation , no spray? Does round up kill the roots or just the above surface parts of the Kikuyu?

I got my first potato fruits this year and I'm really excited to try this!

Thank you so much. I'm going to try for the first time harvesting my seed, and we'll see what happens germinating them. Regards from far north California

This is very much what happened to me last summer. I was pretty new to this whole growing plants stuff and it was very discouraging, but not enough to stop me from trying sgain.

Could you cross pollinate the species that produced large white ones with the species that produced a large number of potatoes, and then only keep plants that produced larger numbers of large potatoes?

For anyone who wants regular store sized potatoes, leave them alone until the greens are fully dead. You are not supposed to harvest until it dies fully, unless you want little potatoes.

Hey even if its not a keeper you can put them next to the window in a warm room and they will sprout and then stop and stay perfect for planting till spring. I do this with the tricky potato types for years and it works so well. ☺️

I believe Skirret is an entirely different plant to Salsify/Scorzonera

Hi I’ve just found your videos I’m in Victoria and wondered if you sell tps or if you sell some of your tubers grown from tps I’d really love to get into growing some new varieties

So interesting. Can see that this would be very addictive - must try :) What criteria do you have when you cross for new varieties? (i.e you only cross the keepers, or do you try crossing one that almost meets your criteria to see if you can pass on the good qualities?)

i am thinking first years from seed will always be small. second year from seed potatoes from these plants may do better.??

Very interesting. Thanks for posting this. I am doing a similar test this year. I'm only putting one plant per container though. Excited to get my results.

Thanks so much. FL. First time looking up potato seed sowing. Saw them on my plants after flowering. Did not know they were poisonous. Thanks.

Is it possible to make a video showing us how you check if the plants are tetras or diploids, please?

I had some potato berries show up in my Ruth Stout patch here in Ohio, Red Pontiacs and Yukon Golds as the flowering parent plants. Looking forward to what monstrosity turns up from them. The seeds germinated well in my 10c basement under a grow light, but crivens, do the berries stink from all of the solanine in them!

I'm so glad to have found your channel! It is answering many of my questions about some of the odd results I've been having with my potatoes this year in Tasmania, where I can get frosts any night of the year, and rarely do I get 3 months frost free in summer. I've never grown true potato seed, but it's a fascinating thing. The best result I ever had was accidental, when a Pinkeye potato peel I had tossed out, was covered with a 44 gallon drum of cold water all summer. The single plant pushed its way out from under the drum on all sides, and flourished on total ignore. When I eventually moved the drum, I found 7 kilograms of good sized potatoes nestled beneath. So there is no rhyme or reason to the yield as far as I can tell. There was no fertiliser, no watering, just constant temperature and darkness! This year I started a large new no dig area on my very poor silty soil, with goat bedding laid on grass, coffee grounds, soaked cardboard, then a layer of composted cattle feedlot manure. I grew about 10 varieties. Set them just under a slit in the cardboard, and hilled them up with more compost as necessary. The early ones also ended up with a thick layer of old straw, as I was forever having to go out in the afternoon to fork loose straw on top of the plants to protect them from frost. They produced well, with fairly even sized tubers. The Sapphires almost invariably had 8 tubers each, but the others had more. There was a bit of scab, but nothing unusual. The ones I planted later, Up To Dates and Brownells, grew extra large plants but I never did hill them up enough. They didn't get frosted, but it was a cool summer. Bad goats nibbled the plants if they got the chance. There were tubers going green on the surface, and I didn't expect much. So when I harvested them all just before a frosty week, I was amazed to find lots of whoppers and odd shapes below ground. Plus, the tubers were like huge bunches of grapes, with dozens of small potatoes as well as the large ones. I counted over 50 on one plant, and others had more. They also produced seed berries. After seeing your programs, I'm thinking I should rummage through the compost pile and save some of these to grow! So I'm wondering why the plants seemed to be growing two types of crops simultaneously. Also, wherever the plants had touched the compost, a tuber was growing off the side. Quite a few were sprouting, but it was never very hot. These two are indeterminate varieties, which I guess means if I had kept hilling them up, they would have continued producing good sized tubers in each layer? I also grew some late Sapphires, and instead of just having 8 tubers, they now also produced big clusters of small and large tubers.

Haven't seen a vid from you in a while. You ok?

Aha, so those seeds came from you!! I bought seeds from Eden years ago when they first offered them. I'm always on the lookout for giant veggies to grow for me, the goats and guinea pigs. I got some huge roots the first year, then forgot about them for a while. Thinking that the seeds would now be too old to germinate, I sowed a row thickly in February, and every single one came up! I've been transplanting them all over the place, and they're doing well. They won't get very big growing in the Tasmanian autumn, but this is something that I certainly want to grow all the time from now on. How did you first come upon this amazing vegetable? It seems to be one of gardening's well kept secrets! Looks chilly where you are. Where abouts are you?

Those small red potatoes are perfect to me. Roasted or made into a chunky potato salad !!! Yummy.

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I've never had kale. I didn't eat all of these greens as I was growing up. It was that iceberg lettuce for us. A lettuce is just growing by itself this year. I'm working on potatoes and sweet potatoes this year. I'm trying to follow the recommended directions. So I really enjoy your channel and I hope you have a nice day. And happy growing to you.

My potatoes are growing berries 😲

Binge watching your videos! Added a bunch to my garden playlist! 🌿🥔🌿🤠👍💜🙏❤️ Subscribed for sure, excellent content!!!

Awesome!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE WEBSITE LINK!!! I'M SO EXCITED! I can't wait to buy seeds! I need to get money around somehow but this is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Awesome awesome awesome!!! 🙏😀❤️💜🕊️🌿🥔🌿🌾🥔🌱🤠👍🌿🥔🌱🥔 I'll trade seeds for seeds if you have any you would be willing to trade. I'll take any variety at all. I'm just excited to try this and potatoes are my very favorite thing to grow and eat, but hey, I'm Irish! 🤣😃

For more info on your soil improvement, you might enjoy watching Matt Powers. He has great natural advice to build up your soil health. God bless!

One tip on the grow bags is I lined a bit of the bottom with newspaper. It helps retain more water and breaks down. I love this video! Thank you so much!

I always always love, love, love a good potato growing experiment video!!! Thank you!! 🌿🥔🌾🌿🤠👍🌾🌿🕊️

Wonder if you could ship bottles of your soil to USA and one of us could get it tested for you?