The photo I sent earlier shows my Skagit Valley Gold. It has a lot of phureja bloodlines in it. This clone is unable to set any seed in isolation. If I plant it next to a half sib, cross pollination happens naturally occasionally.
Solanum phureja is so important to get the orange-yellow flesh I crave in crosses. I rely on using pollen parents that have a high rate of un-reduced gametes to use in tetraploid X diploid hybrids.
I like demissum potatoes but the tubers are so small. I am lucky to get pea sized tubers. I maintain several PI's in the field as mixed populations, hoping for a clonal selection that meets my desires.
Tom Wagner
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