TPS Potato Reveal #7- More Sarpo Mira F2 Crosses

[@1stBumbleBeeMaster]

I hope when people watch this awesome video that they will be encouraged to grow their own TPS and not believe all the rubbish on line that discourages people from doing this. Potato Fruits are toxic to eat but each one produces that many seeds that you are guaranteed to have at least some that will produce top quality potatoes. Much better then most cloned sterile types. Its fun to do and you can never ever stop learning,

[@oxbowfarm5803]

I agree.

[@BillHimmel]

Wow! Never thought that TPS could yield THAT much!

[@cathywest8776]

WOW!!! Great video, with large yielding potatoes from seed. Just fun to watch~

[@blueponyfarm1962]

Just wondering if you've continued your Sarpo TPS trial. You seemed to be getting some good results. I'll be starting 4th year of container-grown trials soon.

[@ximono]

Ditto. Would be nice to get an update on this experiment. What did it result in?

[@torptomaten3981]

That's a really nice harvest with lots of bright reds. I'm holding my thumbs for no hollow heart!

[@oxbowfarm5803]

Thansk Torp. Me not having any seedlings with hollow heart is probably like you not having any seedlings with scab right?

[@zepherzepher1228]

WOW!God multiplies! What awesome abundance!

[@esotericagriculture6643]

Truly amazing yields for TPS grown plants!! I hope you got everything dug before it snowed!!

[@oxbowfarm5803]

You hope in vain. I am now shoveling snow then forking potatoes. Super FUN!

[@homestead.design]

I just saw you mentioned, while watching a skillCult video. I am just starting to get interested in TPS, but I have been growing potatoes as a subsistence homesteader for quite a few years now. I recently moved to the North, North east, and only had time to build a couple small raised beds, which I prompted put my seed potatoes into. It has been such a cool/cloudy/wet year I have a bunch of fruit for the first time ever. So i am excited to see what they do. I would be very interested also, in perhaps purchasing/trading some of your funky varieties. I Believe strongly in sharing/propagating good growing food! See how much you are getting from these plants has me very jealous!

[@michaelsolomon1517]

Great job! Impressive yields as well. Would like to give them a try in containers.

[@AbellaTeacher]

I love this kind of thing. I don't usually grow potatoes due to limited space, but this makes me want to try a few just for the fun of discovering what I might dig up! Reminds me of helping my grandparents dig potatoes on their farm when I was a child. I wonder what these taste like, as well. Do you often get waxy-textured boiling potatoes, starchier baked-type potatoes, or something else entirely? Maybe you should do a taste-test video sometime!

[@HuplesCat]

That is a stunning demo of yield. Impressive. You needed a big bucket for those! 11:45 really stunning

[@oxbowfarm5803]

I'm having a pretty astounding year for seedling yields. Given that it was an extremely unusual year weather-wise, I may never see single-plant yields like this ever again.

[@masumayatamang1840]

Thank for your Good prodution

[@DustySplinters]

Any luck getting Sarpo Mira Potatoes TPS here in USA?

[@trollforge]

Some really nice harvests there Tim. Hope you're going to charge the camera, weigh, and cut them...

[@trumplostlol3007]

The more your cross breed your potatoes, the more they will look like the wild form of potatoes. That is with tougher and rougher skins and inconsistent shapes. Supermarket potatoes are human selection to look good and grow fast. You are lucky cause you definitely have a long cool growing season. We had 113F in June here in zone 8b with last frost day on April 29. LOL

[@69thPaladin]

this is absolutely not true. they will not look like wild potatoes at all, and they have very little of the same genetics as wild potatoes have. while they will look less like commercial potato varieties, that is entirely because commercial varieties are the roughly 1 selected variety out of 50-100,000 seedlings, evaluated for over 30 different traits. They discard anything that does not look near perfect for all of the traits they want. Unless you grow 50,000 seedlings, you can't expect to find something close to meeting all those conditions. If you don't mind selecting for very useful potatoes with less stringent requirements, you can easily find many that will do well and taste good.

[@trumplostlol3007]

@@69thPaladin It is the same as apples. The cross breeding of apples will give you VERY different apples than it parents. Cross breeding of potatoes will give rise to potatoes that can have very different and unpredictable characteristics than their parents. And read my comment MORE carefully. "The more your cross breed your potatoes, the more they will look like the wild form of potatoes."

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

I planted Sarpo Mira this past spring and was excited to see the harvest, but they weren't what I had hoped. I live in the deep south so leaving them longer was not an option although I don't think it would have benefited the plants as they were pretty much dead. Hot weather set in early and potatoes don't care for 90+ with upper 70's at night.

[@Mrsnufleupagus]

Wow, that was quite the harvests. Did that large potato variety have hollow heart? Very impressive sir:)

[@oxbowfarm5803]

In the end, the two seedlings with the highest yield both had some hollow heart, the red had just a touch and the white/purple had it really badly. There were some other issues. I'll have all of that up in a few days.

[@Mrsnufleupagus]

Thanks pal!

[@DustySplinters]

Do you have any of the original Sarpo Mira ?

[@mx730md]

those yields are amazing.. wanted to ask were did you find the sarpo mira potatoes to start this in the usa ?

[@chris9282]

Hello sir I am very impressed. Im curious you said they were f2. Were they f2 TPS or f2 tubers im a little confused about this whole tps thing. Thanks

[@oxbowfarm5803]

Hi Chris. It does get confusing. And calling these "Sarpo Mira crosses" is also perhaps a bit inaccurate. The F in "F1" or whatever number is a shorthand for "filial generation" so the first SEED generation after a cross is "Filial Generation 1" or "F1". So the offspring of an F1 would be "filial generation 2" and so on, and be designated as an F2, then F3, and so on till about F7 or so. Beyond seven generations they usually don't bother anymore, and F1 and F2 generations are probably the most commonly discussed in breeding in general. These plants were all grown from TPS, but the parent plants were from the F1 generation, so these are F2. Hope that makes sense.

[@debgarnett2468]

Nice yields

[@janeobida4152]

Just wow..