Devirusing potatos

Medbury Gardens · July 3, 2008

After reading back through this forum,i can tell that Tom tends to gets a little bit bored when nothing is being posted,so i thought i might write a thread about devirusing.
I have being growing two potatos -Rima, a maori cultivar with pink skin but more red around its shallow eyes, but they have always given me poor returns.So last spring i planted my largest spud in a pot till i had a shoot with roots long enough to remove from the tuber and transplant into the garden.The other potato i did was Robin Adair, a old Engish cultivar,They both grew spuds of about the same size as previous years but hopefully yields will improved in the coming seasons as i was recommended to do so by a old fella who i inherited these two from along with a few other cultivars that give me give me good yields (8 kgs-12 lbs)per plant,every year for the last 20.The theory behind this was that the virus is spread from tuber to tuber,snaping off the shoots supposedly breaks this cycle.
Unlike my other spuds Rima and Robin Adair don`t grow seed pods which i could work with to try to improve yields, so have a done the right thing????

July 3, 2008	#1
Medbury Gardens Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Medbury, New Zealand Posts: 1,881	Devirusing potatos After reading back through this forum,i can tell that Tom tends to gets a little bit bored when nothing is being posted,so i thought i might write a thread about devirusing. I have being growing two potatos -Rima, a maori cultivar with pink skin but more red around its shallow eyes, but they have always given me poor returns.So last spring i planted my largest spud in a pot till i had a shoot with roots long enough to remove from the tuber and transplant into the garden.The other potato i did was Robin Adair, a old Engish cultivar,They both grew spuds of about the same size as previous years but hopefully yields will improved in the coming seasons as i was recommended to do so by a old fella who i inherited these two from along with a few other cultivars that give me give me good yields (8 kgs-12 lbs)per plant,every year for the last 20.The theory behind this was that the virus is spread from tuber to tuber,snaping off the shoots supposedly breaks this cycle. Unlike my other spuds Rima and Robin Adair don`t grow seed pods which i could work with to try to improve yields, so have a done the right thing????