"Rod" wrote in message
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"David Rance" wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Pam Moore 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?

They are poisonous so beware.

One should never attempt to eat the fruit as it certainly is poisonous
but the potatoes grown from the seeds are fine.

And as others have pointed out every plant will be an entirely new
variety. Just let me be the first to try your new
slug proof, blight proof, drought resistant, flood tolerant, scab proof,
wart proof, virus proof, nematode proof
maincrop baker/chipper. I'll even show you how to patent it for a half
share of the royalties.

Rod

I am growing potatoes from last year's seed with a modicum of success - no
disease has struck, but
having grown them from red Desiree potatoes, I can confirm that they appear
to be less than
consistent in colour - some are entirely the more commonplace light buff
colour. I planted them
in early march in the greenhouse, and planted them out when large enough,
but they have always
been behind the potatoes I grew from tubers. I expect them to crop no
earlier than late august/early
september, they are presently small egg-sized.
For anyone not serious about producing a large consistent crop, I
think saving a little potato
seed from this year and growing it on next year is a fun experiment, like
Forrest Gump said, you
never know what you're gonna get!

Andy