TPS, Clancy Outcrosses, 100 true seeds

Clancy is a mass market TPS variety, available from Bejo Seeds.  I grew it to evaluate in 2020 and collected some seed.  You can see a review of Clancy here.  The seeds were open pollinated and I also supplemented that by pollinating with bulk tetraploid pollen.  Clancy is an F1 and probably male sterile, so I expect a lot of variability in these seeds.  Many of the progeny will probably be oval and red, but depending on what went into the F1 hybrid, the seed could segregate dramatically away from those traits.  In addition, the plants were grown in an odd border area here, between a block of blue tetraploid seedlings and a block of Solanum curtilobum seedlings, so virtually anything is possible from these.  I think that this will probably be a pretty good line to search for reds and blues with fairly uniform tuber sizes and early maturities.  There may be a lot of junk to sort through as well.  I will not be doing ongoing breeding with Clancy, so this seed will not be replenished.  When it’s gone, it’s gone!

Germination

2024