berrys/buds on my potatoes

[snake the squadie]

for some strange reason i have got some sort of berry/bud growing on my potatoe plants i have never seen this before has any body got any ideas

[rustylady]

Yes, they are potato fruit (developed from the flowers). They are not edible but you can let them ripen and extract the seed to grow new potato plants. Several threads on here about it.

[snakeshack]

Yes, they are potato fruit (developed from the flowers). They are not edible but you can let them ripen and extract the seed to grow new potato plants. Several threads on here about it.

OR you could remove them and it may increase your yield by diverting the energy to tuber formation

[Two_Sheds]

There won't be much more tuber formation at this time of year

[snake the squadie]

many thanks i will remove them as i wont be digging themup for a couple more weeks

[haza1981]

I have loads of these, anyone able to direct me to the thread on what to do with them, just dug up half my bed and got masses and masses of spuds!!

[maytreefrannie]

I've read quite a bit about these 'potato fruits' this year, and, for the first time ever, I saw some on my own potato plants. It's the first time I've ever seen them.

Is there something about this summer that encouraged them? Certainly here we've had a better summer (less rain) than for several years.

I removed and disposed of them.

[Jardiniere]

hello sts.....did you ever get to use my book?

[valmarg]

Yes, they are potato fruit (developed from the flowers). They are not edible but you can let them ripen and extract the seed to grow new potato plants. Several threads on here about it.

To say they are not edible is, as I understand, a bit of an understatement. I had always been taught that they were poisonous.

The tomato and potato are members of the nightshade family, of which there are some deadly varieties.

The potato produces flowers and fruits, and the tomato produces fruits and tubers on the roots.

My understanding is that the fruits of the potato plant, and the tubers of the tomato are both extremely poisonous.

valmarg

[snake the squadie]

first question yes i did thankyou very much and it was a great help i did write back to you but due to the army post office no doubt you didnt get it lol and back to the berris this is the first time i have ever seen them in my many years of growing them and have also heard they can be deadly but not sure if this is a myth

[Two_Sheds]

I've read quite a bit about these 'potato fruits' this year, and, for the first time ever, I saw some on my own potato plants.

Some varieties are more likely to fruit than others. I had loads of fruit on my Druids and Roosters, but on nothing else (I sowed the seed this spring, and harvested mini tubers last month: these will be planted as seed potatoes next spring)