Potato Fruit ( seed )

[TeeDee]

Noticed these on my Po-Po plants - I understand that they are Poisonous but are they of ANY ( No matter how random ) use????

 

[Woody girl]

Do you have anyone you want to poison ?

 

[TLM]

Something probably can eat them in spite of the solanine. I haven't got the faintest idea what it might be.

 

[TeeDee]

Do you have anyone you want to poison ?

I've compiled a data base....

 

[Woody girl]

I hope you don't keep it on your computer!
Damming evidence you know
Green tomato chutney with a few disguised potato fruits could prove effective.

 

[slowworm]

You could let them ripen and then grow the seeds next year.

I was always told to remove them, although it now seems to be suggested they have little effect on the potato crop. If they're only a few I'd remove.

 

[Robson Valley]

Cross-pollination and then seed collection is the traditional method for developing new genetic varieties of potatoes.
Don't bother to save the fruits (and seeds) if that's not your intention. You could pick them off and dispose of them if that floats your boat. Otherwise, they don't appear to divest the developing tubers of energy and materials.

If you really like the variety that you are growing, chopping up tubers to clone more of the same is the
traditional cultivation method. The ingnorantsia call those pieces "seed potatoes" but it would be far more useful to call them exactly what they are = "clone potatoes."