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Title: Looks like tomatoes on potato plant! What is it?
Post by: javahart on July 09, 2010, 17:07:04
Center of picture shows the tomato like fruits.

(http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr336/javahart/IMG00194-20100706-1813.jpg)

Are these just seed potatoes or do i have something weird?
Title: Re: Looks like tomatoes on potato plant! What is it?
Post by: Flighty on July 09, 2010, 17:16:35
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,61458.0.html

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,61466.0.html

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,61446.0.html

and don't eat them as they are poisonous!

Title: Re: Looks like tomatoes on potato plant! What is it?
Post by: javahart on July 17, 2010, 17:11:45
Thanks flighty

I may well have a go with these tsp.  Got lots!
Title: Re: Looks like tomatoes on potato plant! What is it?
Post by: landimad on July 17, 2010, 19:03:54
I would cut them of and put them in the in to stop any youngsters trying to find ot if they are edible.
Title: Re: Looks like tomatoes on potato plant! What is it?
Post by: pigeonseed on July 17, 2010, 20:30:43
I wonder if they're more common this year, I don't remember people asking about them quite so often in previous years. Something to do with the dry weather?
Title: Re: Looks like tomatoes on potato plant! What is it?
Post by: lottie lou on July 17, 2010, 20:36:31
I think they tend to prevalent during long hot dry summers
Title: Re: Looks like tomatoes on potato plant! What is it?
Post by: Flighty on July 17, 2010, 20:37:46
Pigeonseed I'm sure it is both more common and to do with the weather this year. More often than not they don't appear at all which is why they come as a bit of a surprise to gardening newcomers when they do!  :)
Title: Re: Looks like tomatoes on potato plant! What is it?
Post by: Fork on July 17, 2010, 21:04:00
I always get them if I leave the flower heads on!
Title: Re: Looks like tomatoes on potato plant! What is it?
Post by: thegood-life on July 22, 2010, 22:36:09
they are called potato apples as there nick name!! they are not edible! .  They are the seeds for the potato, we   are use to the cultivated tuber but these apples are the seed of the tuber takes around 2/5 years for full tuber maturaty
Title: Re: Looks like tomatoes on potato plant! What is it?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on July 24, 2010, 12:06:06
Some varieties produce them, some don't. British Queen, for instance, has sterile pollen, so it only produces them when it's cross-pollinated. This year most of the buds are falling off my spuds, presumably because of the drought. British Queen and Negresse have bloomed, but that's all.