Growing a new variety from True Potato Seed

[Snow]

One of my plants produced some berries this year and the foliage was so thick from all the other plants that I was able to put it out of reach of my daughter so I left them be.
They feel off about a month ago and I collected them all up. The variety the fruits came from was Red Emma.

I cut one open and extracted the seeds, and left the others to ripen, which I read is what you are supposed to do. I wanted to do one right away though, in the hope that it would germinate, as I wanted to get a plant growing now in August so that it might produce some small tubers by the end of the year, allowing me to plant them in the spring to get a proper crop.

I planted all the seeds around three weeks ago and got nothing. I thought maybe they needed time to mature in the ripening fruit, or maybe my beries were no good for some reason. Anyway, today I notice I have two very small seedlings growing. So it looks like at least some of the seeds are viable after all!

My hope is to get a few different types to try next year, and then narrow down to one or two new varieties that are decent to grow on in future seasons. We'll see.

Anyone else having a go?

[sparrow100]

I've got some TPS kicking about somewhere - annoyingly I think I have 'lost' an envelope of seeds somewhere in the mess in the spare room. So not this year, perhaps next year.

Skagit Magic is one to get hold of if you can too - I understand it's got some blight resistance.

[meteor]

I tried this about 10 years ago, and after 3 years ended up with one plant with "edible" tubers, god it was truly awful, I still have nightmares. It looked the part allright white with purple patches somewhat like a King Edward but tasted more like a bar of soap with a bitter after taste, I was sick for a full day afterwards, haven't bothered since

[Snadger]

I tried growing Desiree TPS a few years ago and got poor relations of...............you guessed it, Desiree. I knew that Desiree had Duke of York somewhere in its lineage and was hoping for a few white spuds? but they were all purple skinned and without the taste or the cropping ability of 'Proppa' Desiree spuds.
An interesting experiment none the less!

[Snow]

Sounds like I need to have low expectations then. I will still give it a go, see what happens I suppose.