It has been a few weeks back but I talked about some of my irish potatoes having bloomed and managed to produce potato berries.
The berries were cut in half when they became soft and their contents were put into a glass jar. aomw warer was added and the seeds fermented for a few days. Like with tomatoes True Potato Seeds have the same mucous layer that needs to be removed. the seeds were rensed and theset onpaper to dry.
Without thinking about forty seeds were planted in small cups. After doing this I began to wonder if I should have chilled the berries in the crisper tray in the refrigerator to break seed dormany.
Searching on the internet the answer was yes and that it would enhance germination. So the seeds I cleanedand the rest of the berries were so placed
Knowing how small these seeds are, the sown seeds were left in place and kept damp. How surprised I was to see after a couple weeks that there are 11 potato seedlings. These guys are tiny.
Game plan is oleave them in place and grow them to a size where they can be divided and transplanted into individual containers. tThey will be planted near the bottom of a container and slowly filled around the stem (outdoors this is refered to as hilling) and tus as the spuds grow therewill beseveral seedpotatoes that will grow along this stem. It is these seed potatoes that will be out planted into the garden. Carefully noted their location, once the tops die down we will see what these potatoes look like and tase like.
Stay tuned this really feelslike a feature length movie, being played in slow motion. My curiosity grows.
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