Full title: Potatoes and tomatoes are actually in the same family. Potatoes also produce a fruit that looks similar to black cherry tomatoes, but is deathly poisonous. In fact, the entirety of the potato plant is poisonous, outside of the tubers.
Full title: Potatoes and tomatoes are actually in the same family. Potatoes also produce a fruit that looks similar to black cherry tomatoes, but is deathly poisonous. In fact, the entirety of the potato plant is poisonous, outside of the tubers.
Potatoes blossom and produce seeds as is. No need to make a topato hybrid.
what about tomacco?
The great majority of potatoes do no bear fruit, which is a shame. It also reduces genetic variability. And keeps the farmers, even the hobby farmers, hostage of seed companies.
Now tell me you did had a nice moment writing “topato”. Silly word. Silly idea. Nature should see into it and make it real. Potatoes and salad from the same plant.
You can just save some potatoes at the end of the season and plants those so they’re spaced out. That will produce more potatoes off of side roots.
Commercial farmers can be fined in my country if they keep potatoes from one harvest to the next. Even small scale. Every year is a race to buy seed potatoes.
A few years back, I read a cover of the case of a young farmer that decided to scale the production of a type of potatoe his grandfather planted every year in his small personal garden.
Because he scaled the production to commercial viability, he got visited and inspected by our agricultural department and faced serious charges, penalties and fines for producing and selling potatoes with no prior traceability. It took serious proportions and it was headed to courts.
This logic bleeds into private gardens and police sometimes approaches people planting their potatoe patches for proof of seed purchase.
It is mafia like.
The hybrid is called a Pomato. It only works as a graft not growing from seed.