Thread: Potato 'Fruit'
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Old 21-07-2003, 09:34 AM
David Rance
 
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Default Potato 'Fruit'

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Rick McGreal wrote:

My potato plants have just finished flowering....
I removed the flowers from some and left them on others to see if it made
any real difference to the crops....

And now they have produced 'Fruit'
They are very much like a thick-skinned grape only much darker...
About an inch ling and a half-inch in diameter..And very firm

Are they worth keeping?

Can I use them as seeds for future plants?


Yes, I've done it, but you won't get the same type as the one they came
from. Nevertheless you will have a strain free from viruses.

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