Potato seeds vs seed potatoes

[Pa Snips]

Just wondering whether anyone on here has grown potato plants from seed, rather than using seed potatoes and, if so, how did the plants grown from seed compare to their seed potato counterparts?

I have two or three seed pods on my potato plants and would like to attempt to grow plants from them but I've never heard of anyone else doing so. As always, I will do my own research on the world-wide-interweb, but I would be interested to hear from anyone here who has prior knowledge of this method.

[veggiechicken]

True Potato Seed!
Here's one thread for you http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...eed_66885.html

[Kirk]

I would guess that it would take a few years to get anything from potato seed, very likely 5 to 7. There was a program yesterday that mentioned it took 7 years to develop a new tulip bulb from seed and I cannot see why a potato should be quicker.

Then it depends on what the cross was that formed the seed and you have no idea how that cross will turn out.

In a worst case you have something so susceptible to disease that you annually infest other potato's in your area quite heavily.

The cross could also be poor and taste like cardboard, or give a crop that could fit in the palm of your hand.

These thing are developed and undergo trials for some years before they are released.

[Snadger]

You do get a reasonable crop the first year. I used Desiree seed and all the spuds I grew were red like Desiree but none of them surpassed or equalled the true Desiree grown from tubers.
The use of true seed would be more suited to hot countries where tubers would shrivel before they started to grow or chits would grow too quickly and spoil the spuds in transit.
Its an interesting experiment to do though as you never know, you may breed your own variety of spud that is suited to your very own plot.

Just treat the seed like tomato seeds and you won't go far wrong.

[Likac66]

I grew some last year in flower buckets and had a small crop from some of them of quite varying colours and textures. It was fun. As long as you don't expect too much and do it for a bit of fun then I say go for it.