Growing Potatoes From True Potato Seeds

[@TheGingerDivine]

“Promiscuously pollinated” was such an excellent choice

[@manowode6286]

Love all this about growing potatoes from true seed. And your appreciation is great to see! Thank you do much. I have my first say 15 little plants. Can't wait to see what types I get from them. Thanks again.

[@joym5109]

I don't know how I found your channel but thank you for your content! This is exactly the video I was looking for. You are simply amazing!

[@someroob7915]

I was stoked to get potato “berries” on my pink-eye potatoes and have saved them to plant out and see how it goes. I heard that potato seeds don’t necessarily throw to type, so looking forward to seeing what happens. I save the seeds of the best of my vegetables to put back in each year in the hope of encouraging plants that are perfect for my backyard garden. Growing food rocks!!

[@nehawendperozgerdi4806]

Could you please give us some updates? Thanks

[@sasquatchdonut2674]

I ordered a bunch of Andean varieties from Bill. I’m going to start them indoors in august so they avoid the Texas heat then I’ll plant them a bit later on. Wish me luck!

[@juliadakin9733]

Good luck! I hope the weather cooperates

[@kennethheath4363]

How did it go? I have some growing now.

[@TheFeralFerret]

I got my hands on a whole bunch of true potato seed and I'm super excited to start experimenting with breeding some here in western Canada

[@ValezkaMacDonald]

Thankyou for teaching us. I have 4th generation potatos but I clone them every year. I have seen the fruit but never knew to use them. Love your videos

[@landracegardening5631]

Wonderful! Good luck.

[@tinpalace]

thank you for the video, you have sparked my interest. I'm a first time clone potato grower now dreaming of true seed potatoes in the years to some.

[@juliadakin9733]

Wonderful. Potatoes from seed are so fun.

[@mhanif6602]

Excellent video

[@vickistonehouse2218]

Great video!

[@Swampy-ci3np]

Very interesting. You remind me of Johnny appleseed which is of course a good thing. 1 thing that was unique about Johnny appleseed i know, he didn't use cutting from other apple tree only the seeds to plant apple trees. (He was pretty big vegetarian snd idk even know what and thought thsf even plants might feel pain, humans need to eat plants but that just incase he would limit the pain he caused, perhaps little silly reasoning today and even back them but that is atleast a morally good reason.) Which is why he responsible for thosands of apple trees varieties. Unfortunately the great depression and some other extant prohibition made many variety go extinct, apparently used to be where a town or a couple towns over would have its own special apple. Still pretty sure most apples in the supermarket he played significant role in.

[@NikoaidanielovichNazarenko]

Am loving this soo much.

[@IAmHumanJake]

Great video

[@BillHimmel]

When do you sow the seeds? In the spring? Or in the fall? Do the seeds survive the winter, as seed-potatoes often do?

[@juliadakin9733]

Plant in spring, I start mine in March and April, transplant seedlings in May. Typically potato seeds are started in a greenhouse and transplanted. Seeds can survive the winter, like tomatoes, and germinate, but they are tiny and grow slowly, so it can be hard to keep track of volunteers.

[@BillHimmel]

@@juliadakin9733 🙏

[@FidelCashflow13]

Do you sell any of these seeds? I'd love a seed bearing potato variety but don't know where to begin looking.

[@David-kd5mf]

Cultivariable is a small business that you can buy true seed from. There is also a podcast by same name with old episodes that are still good to listen to.

[@juliadakin9733]

I bought the seeds you see from Cultivariable, was very happy with them as you see. Joseph Lofthouse hasn't been growing potatoes for a while and unfortunately doesn't have seed for sale. Good luck!

[@TSis76]

Who knew?? Wow!!!!

[@Jeffreymart]

That was a cool video.

[@sonnyamoran7383]

Are the products (or fruit) from these always edible? I have a package of Cody Cove Landrace Bush beans, do I need to worry about eating the beans?

[@landracegardening5631]

The potato berries aren't edible, at least they don't taste good. Beans you can definitely eat! So it depends.

[@sasquatchdonut2674]

Potato berries are actually poisonous so it isn’t advisable to eat them.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

The fruit have solanine

[@gregmonks]

I've been growing my Russian Blue potatoes from seed ever since they bore fruit. Never had that happen before. I kept the seed, planted 'em, and have never looked back.

[@blackkennedy3966]

Are they really true to type? because from what I heard is potato seed is variable and you can get basically anything any Color any growth type any size, shape, flower Color etc

[@spoolsandbobbins]

Would the nutritional value differ if you didn’t use compost I wonder. That is one of the reasons we use compost. Plus our soil is fairly sandy and the organic material in the compost retains more moisture.

[@landracegardening5631]

Most people would say more compost means higher nutritional value, that's the dominant paradigm. But there's little actual evidence to support that... here is a interview we did that might be interesting. Long story short=genetics matter much more. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZq8gZp7q915o5I

[@Electedsphinx40]

Compost doesn't feed your plants, it feeds the soil biology, and the soil biology makes the nutrients available to plants

[@siranozegikniet520]

So if u plant a seed ( from a tomato berry ) and then u harvest their potatos can u still eat the harvested potatos

[@landracegardening5631]

Yes you can also eat the tubers!

[@CookingLessonsforDad]

Where did you find the seeds? In the ground or above ground?

[@almostoily7541]

The plants will flower above ground and then make berries. Not all plants will flower or set berries. Some need more than one type to get pollinated if you are starting with some of the modern varieties from seed potatoes.

[@BillHimmel]

What about pollination? Potatoes are pollinated almost exclusively by bumble bees! Did you ever notice a „shortage“ of pollinators for your potatoes?

[@David-kd5mf]

Do you direct sow the potato seed?

[@juliadakin9733]

Not usually. Though I did do a successful winter seeding in a hoophouse that is now producing. Doing it in the field is future goal with some of the people in the online landrace community (part of the online course). I have high weed pressure in the usual field where I'm growing, and seedlings are soo tiny for the first month, so I will need to do that once I have a fairly weed free area in the potato field. You should try it!

[@David-kd5mf]

@@juliadakin9733 well I just got in from field sowing three different packets of true seed. Hopefully the come up. They are in good spot where compost has turned soil dark and the soil is fine and not clumpy. Still have packets in reserve if this is a fail.

[@landracegardening5631]

@@David-kd5mf did they come up?

[@David-kd5mf]

@@landracegardening5631 it doesnt look like it so far

[@underwaterdream2870]

How long does it take prom sowing to reasonable harvest? I have heard that the first year potatoes are going to be really small and you have to plant them as seed potatoes to see their actual value. But that knowledge is unreliable and I'm not even sure if I haven't mixed something up.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

potatoes that do set seed very rarely grow true to type