pokipsie.....poor dog

wingnut · July 3, 2012

I have identified the large flowered plant

it is POKIPSIE AKA 'poor dog'. Here is a pic of a early harvested 'sprout jack'planted early april

It had a great creamy texture, but fairly average flavor.

cornbreadlouie · July 3, 2012

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

wingnut · July 3, 2012

They mature to a brown with burgundy wavy lines.

Mark0820 · July 4, 2012

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.?

wingnut · July 4, 2012

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

**carolyn137** · July 5, 2012

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poughkeepsie,_New_York

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

meadowyck · July 5, 2012

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

wingnut · July 6, 2012

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

**carolyn137** · July 6, 2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by wingnut

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

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.

wingnut · July 6, 2012

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.

**Tom Wagner** · July 8, 2012

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.

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!!

wingnut · July 20, 2012

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.

July 3, 2012	#1
wingnut Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: bald hill area thurston county washington Posts: 312	pokipsie.....poor dog I have identified the large flowered plantit is POKIPSIE AKA 'poor dog'. Here is a pic of a early harvested 'sprout jack'planted early aprilIt had a great creamy texture, but fairly average flavor.

July 3, 2012	#2
cornbreadlouie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: SF bay area... north bay Posts: 242	I bet those skins have about a million antioxidants in them! Beautiful colors! Looks like somebody dipped them in wine. __________________ Do You Like Worms?

July 5, 2012	#6
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	And when I saw the word Pokipsie, I thought to myself that someone doesn't know how to spell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poughkeepsie,_New_York What is the origin of this variety called Pokipsie, just curious. __________________ Carolyn

July 5, 2012	#7
meadowyck Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2012 Location: Brooksville, FL Posts: 1,001	I bet those would make a beautiful plate of fried taters. __________________ Jan “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt

July 4, 2012	#4
Mark0820 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Cincinnati Posts: 907	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.?

July 6, 2012	#8
wingnut Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: bald hill area thurston county washington Posts: 312	Carolyn137 it was named by Tom wagner, and is a totally made up name. Maybe he can chime in and give an explanation.

July 8, 2012	#11
Tom Wagner Crosstalk™ Forum Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 8407 18th Ave West 7-203 Everett, Washington 98204 Posts: 1,157	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. 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!!

July 20, 2012	#12
wingnut Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: bald hill area thurston county washington Posts: 312	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.