pokipsie.....poor dog
 

I have identified the large flowered plant[IMG]http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/ab61/wingnutpeaches/DSCF2398.jpg[/IMG]it is POKIPSIE AKA 'poor dog'. Here is a pic of a early harvested 'sprout jack'planted early april[IMG]http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/ab61/wingnutpeaches/DSCF2439.jpg[/IMG]It had a great creamy texture, but fairly average flavor.

I bet those skins have about a million antioxidants in them! Beautiful colors! Looks like somebody dipped them in wine.

They mature to a brown with burgundy wavy lines.

That is a very nice looking potato. Until now, I had never seen a potato with colored streaks through the center of it. Does it retain its color when cooked, baked, etc.?

The yellow for sure, but the red kinda bleeds out; unless it is fried, then it keeps it's nice color/pattern.

And when I saw the word Pokipsie, I thought to myself that someone doesn't know how to spell:

[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poughkeepsie,_New_York[/URL]

What is the origin of this variety called Pokipsie, just curious.:)

I bet those would make a beautiful plate of fried taters.

Carolyn137 it was named by Tom wagner, and is a totally made up name. Maybe he can chime in and give an explanation.

[QUOTE=wingnut;288871]Carolyn137 it was named by Tom wagner, and is a totally made up name. Maybe he can chime in and give an explanation.[/QUOTE]

Since Tom is the Moderator of this Forum I assume he'll see what I posted and I'd love to know how pokipsie tranlates out to " poor dog".;)

Made up name? Could be, Tom does that a lot, but also uses some foreign languages he knows from time to time but this one doesn't look like the ones he has used in the past that come from his own heritage across the sea.:)

Carolyn po is for one potato, kip represents another, and sie is for a third potato in it's heritage. Then Tom changed it's name to 'poor dog' because the mature tubers look like a very large dog turd. So large in fact that they probably hurt coming out......so that is wghere the name 'poor dog' comes from.

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POOR DOG potato variety ...above...growing at Project Grow's garden in Portland, Oregon. Photo shot 7-6-12.This should be the same clone as the one I gave Wingnut last November. I had dozens of my varieties of potatoes on display during my lecture, including POOR DOG.



The photo below shows one of the clones from which TPS was selected and one of the progeny clones grown from that true seed was named POKHIPSIE. If you note...the Pokhip was a cross of Pirampo and Khuchi Akita. The spelling was a made up name using some of the letters of Pirampo...PO and Khi from Khuchi. I had many clones selected with various spellings from those two Solanum stenotomum landraces from Bolivia. I have a picture below of one of the hybrids of POKHIP and SKAGIT VALLEY GOLD....note the long twisted shape of the tubers. POKHIPSIE was one of the recombinants of TPS of the season 2010. I add the SIE at the end of POKHIP to show the pollen parent addition to the cross. And yes....I did think of Poohkeepsie, NY when I named it. POOR DOG is a TPS seedling from POKHIPSIE.

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Tom Wagner...always the practical jokester....laying POOR DOG tubers around the house or at others' houses and eating them out of hand watching my guests stare in disbelief!!

I just harvested a tubed very similar to the above from a pull start. It was a small plant and produced only one tuber before senescing.