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Post by plantsnobin on Dec 15, 2009 12:24:27 GMT -5
Tom, could you tell us if you will be offering TPS or tubers this year? I am very interested in getting an assortment and want to put in an order before it is too late.
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Post by ottawagardener on Dec 15, 2009 12:30:11 GMT -5
I would also be interested in a small amount of TPS if you have some.
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Post by PatrickW on Dec 15, 2009 12:56:42 GMT -5
Have you guys seen the video here: www.patnsteph.net/weblog/2009/11/tom-wagner-pedigree-information/I think these are the main TPS lines he's working with this year. If you're interested in anything mentioned, you should first try to get some from Tom himself, but in any case I have some if you can't get it from him for some reason. |
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Post by Alan on Dec 15, 2009 19:01:07 GMT -5
I also probably have a bit of extra TPS if Tom isn't offering any this year, I truly hope he does though, some of his stuff is just amazing in Potato lines and there is a lot to select from and work with.
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Post by sphinxeyes on Dec 18, 2009 22:34:42 GMT -5
I grew some TPS seed last season and got a few handfuls of small (slightly smaller than a golf ball) tubers as a result. I stored them in open plastic bins covered with some saw dust in the basement. They were doing well, but I just checked on them when bringing up some boxes of Christmas decorations earlier today, and some of them have sprouted eyes! It seems to be the white varieties that are doing it. The bin of pink tubers don't have hardly any. What should I do to save them? Do they need to be warmer, cooler, dryer? Is there any way to plant the sprouted tubers inside where they'd just overwinter? Or do I simply just cut off the eyes?  |
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Post by canadamike on Dec 18, 2009 22:51:52 GMT -5
I would cut the eyes of and store them in the bottom drawer of a frige...
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Post by PatrickW on Dec 19, 2009 3:15:28 GMT -5
It's not unusual for potatoes to sprout this time of year. If they're not getting too bad, you may not need to do anything with them at all.
Normally potatoes prefer dark, cold and damp for storage -- but not usually the fridge.
In the spring, about a month before you would normally plant them out, you can chit them. That is put them in a cold sunny place, and let the sprouts grow a bit before planting them.
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Post by canadamike on Dec 19, 2009 4:03:15 GMT -5
Patrick, in our fridges here the lower compartments usually are kind of warmer, climate controlled as they say and in my experience they beat the absence of a cold storage. Garages have huge variations of temperature and usually aren't damp at all, nor our modern north american basements...in my house it is the driest part...and anything but cold...
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Post by Jim on Dec 27, 2009 11:32:33 GMT -5
Tom had a nice little article about him in the SSE catalog. He got more credit for his creations in the Baker Creek catalog too.
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Post by darwinslair on Dec 27, 2009 11:45:35 GMT -5
What a piece of work is a Tom Wagner, how noble in reason,
how infinite in vision, in form of his potato varieties,
how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension,
how like a god in his gifts to the world!
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Post by Jim on Dec 28, 2009 19:48:01 GMT -5
Seriously is that necessary? A bit nasty don't you think?
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Post by darwinslair on Dec 28, 2009 20:22:48 GMT -5
Seriously is that necessary? A bit nasty don't you think? you are joking, right? Or are you not a fan of Shakespeare? I would be hard pressed to be more complementary than to call someone god-like Tom |
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Post by darwinslair on Dec 28, 2009 20:25:45 GMT -5
“
I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation
preuent your discouery of your secricie to the King and
Queene: moult no feather, I haue of late, but wherefore
I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custome of exercise;
and indeed, it goes so heauenly with my disposition;
that this goodly frame the Earth, seemes to me a sterrill
Promontory; this most excellent Canopy the Ayre,
look you, this braue ore-hanging, this Maiesticall Roofe,
fretted with golden fire: why, it appeares no other thing
to mee, then a foule and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of worke is a man! how Noble in
Reason? how infinite in faculty? in forme and mouing
how expresse and admirable? in Action, how like an Angel?
in apprehension, how like a God? the beauty of the
world, the Parragon of Animals; and yet to me, what is
this Quintessence of Dust? Man delights not me; no,
nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seeme
to say so
”
—The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Act II, Scene ii, 285-300), [1]
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Post by darwinslair on Dec 28, 2009 20:27:55 GMT -5
What a piece of worke is a man! how Noble in
Reason? how infinite in faculty? in forme and mouing
how expresse and admirable? in Action, how like an Angel?
in apprehension, how like a God?
—The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Act II, Scene ii, 285-300), [1]
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Post by Jim on Dec 28, 2009 20:45:29 GMT -5
Sorry pal. I'm uncultured  No harm no foul. |
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No harm no foul.