Seed Potatoes from own pots -Advice needed please!

[lynda66]

If it works for you just carry on

well they were my first ever spuds lol ...... so we'll see how it goes next year ....... seems a waste to chuck the sprouted ones

[tattieman]

... so a bit like photocopying a photocopy?

Yes thats correct. It looks the same but it has lost some of its quality.

[Jenegade]

Ah, that makes sense...photocopy of a photcopy! Thanks! Cant wait to get potatoes to plant, I want to plant things now!!

[Snadger]

Or you could..............as some of us are planning to do, have a bit of an experiment by growing your own tatties from real seed. This is the actual seed that is produced by the potato after flowering. This gives you a 'tattie apple' which is very poisonous, similar to a tomato but never goes red.
Harvesting these will give real seed similar to tomato seed which is started in a propagator in spring.
Once grown on this will hopefully give you a new strain of your own which, if you like it can be propagated the following year by tubers!

Watch this space! There's a whole thread devoted to it somewhere!

[Demeter]

Watch this space! There's a whole thread devoted to it somewhere!

Nah there are 20 million threads on it

[pipscariad]

Done it at last - told you not to wait tattieman, you could have grown a beard by now Thought I'd try to put the pic on here, as I needed to find out how, but I couldn't have done it without Two Sheds, who told me what to do

They just look like spuds to me, I wish you luck!

[BrideXIII]

ooh the one on the right has what can only be described ( politely) as a protruberance

sorry .

[tattieman]

Done it at last - told you not to wait tattieman, you could have grown a beard by now Thought I'd try to put the pic on here, as I needed to find out how, but I couldn't have done it without Two Sheds, who told me what to do

They just look like spuds to me, I wish you luck!

Well they have me beaten. They could be almost anything.
I was hoping they would have pink or purple eyes to narrow it down.
I will have a good think about them all day.

[pipscariad]

Well they have me beaten. They could be almost anything.
I was hoping they would have pink or purple eyes to narrow it down.
I will have a good think about them all day.

I'm not surprised, a more potato-y looking potato I'm sure it would be hard to find! I feel a bit badly even giving you the task, hope it doesn't send you silly ....

Anyway up, as they say where I come from, I've got about 20 of them, so I'll stick 'em in and give it a whirl - after all, as long as they're good it doesn't matter if I can't call them by name!

ooh the one on the right has what can only be described ( politely) as a protruberance

sorry .

Of course it has, it's a boy, silly

[crazy_red]

Originally Posted by BrideXIII
ooh the one on the right has what can only be described ( politely) as a protruberance

sorry .

Of course it has, it's a boy, silly

Well mine's just a bog standard spud, but it's got a bigger 'protuberance' than yours!

Potato envy anyone?


Red

[ardroil]

does anyone know the best salad potato to grow, and is it ok in buckets, and how many would you put into a bucket. ive never grown spuds before, but spent a fortune on salad potatoes this year so i thought i would try and grow my own.

[BrideXIII]

well i was given by a lovely grape, the salad blue seeds to try.
i also have pots in a bucket for xmas day, and its very big now, i think i put 2 maybe 3 in.
i have never grown pots before, but i am impressed, cos i shoved a couple of charlottes in a bucket too, and they are up now.
buckets is a good way to grow them cos you can start with a third full, and top up as they grow, plus you can just tip them out when done, no digging

[ardroil]

cheers for that, i will try it out and hopefully itll work,
is the best salad potato, charlotte

[tattieman]

Best salad varieties are - Pentland Javelin First Early
International Kidney First early
Bonnie Dundee First Early
Charlotte Second Early
Carlingford Second Early
Nicola Second Early
Doon Pearl Second Early
Pink Fir Apple Maincrop

[Flummery]

Anya's not bad! I put some in a big bucket in Feb last year (in greenhouse and wrapped in bubblewrap) and I got a lovely crop in May. First spud salad of the year.