I had a volunteer potato in my garden this year so I just let it do its thing (Completely overshadowing all of my corn but oh well). It flowered and now suddenly there are... berries??? I've literally never seen these before, what are these?
You need to grow these until they become blue. Grind up the berries into a powder. Put that powder into pill capsules. You need to find people have money and live alone and sell these pills to them as some kind of drug they'd be interested in.
You're going to need spend a few days with them as they enter near-comatose state due to the drug and instruct them to do seemingly odd tasks while also preparing to suggest to them that they need to give you all of their money. Make sure you're not seen during any of this and leave no trace. Leave once this is finished.
Yes, that's normal. But don't eat it, they're mildly poisonous.
Apparently they're caused by cooler weather and contain seeds! Do not eat them, as they tend to be rather poisonous
Usually yes, but that's not very efficient. Seed-grown potatoes are very fragile and need special care. Having a bulb as a fallback for nutrients is what gives potato resilience. They grow a lot like tomatoes. Usually people only do that to get new breeds. Since, technically, planting a bulb is cloning.
Huh, now I'm curious! These don't look ripe, I'm thinking you would save the seeds of the berries the same way as a tomato. Wonder if it would be like a hybrid plant where the seeds will produce a random plant that might not really grow potatoes, unlike the clones your producing by replanting the tubers.
Wonder if it would be like a hybrid plant where the seeds will produce a random plant that might not really grow potatoes
You'd probably still get potatoes but the size/quality/quantity would be random.
Those are the tomato part of the potato plant. They're poisonous because both tomatoes and potatoes are nightshades. You can make those grow into tomatoes or egg plants if you do a few hundred years of selective breeding.
You can make those grow into tomatoes or egg plants if you do a few hundred years of selective breeding.
You can graft tomatos & eggplants to potato rootstock, they take very readily, but it cuts production on both, and i wouldnt recommend a cherry tomato graft for hopefully obvious reasons.
