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  1. If you'd like to learn about pests and diseases of potatoes, here are 14 pics that show spuds in various types of distress. From a visit to The Canadian Potato Museum in O'Leary, Prince Edward Island. #PrinceEdwardIsland #pei #potatoes #museum #garden #gardening #agriculture #coffins #blog #solanum colinpurrington.com/2025/08/ga

  2. RIP my snakes. Just kidding, it was potato-planting day. Trying Princess La Ratte (nutty fingerling) and Carla Rosa ("hardworking") this year. #GrowYourOwn #garden #gardening #allotment #potatoes #solanum

  3. I decided to sow tomatoes this afternoon: Mikado, Honey Drop, Mortgage Lifter, San Marzano, Super Sauce, Juliet, and Black Krim. I'm USDA Zone 7b so the plants will stay in my basement until early May. #tomatoes #solanum #gardening #vegetable #seeds #GrowYourOwn

  4. Something quite unsettling about the fruit of this porcupine tomato (#Solanum pyracanthos). Looks like it should be predicting the future for a warlock or attached to a wyvern.

  5. New tomato, potato family tree shows that fruit color and size evolved together

    Researchers have created an improved family tree for Solanum plants, revealing that fruit color and size evolved together, challenging previous theories that fruit-eating animals were the primary drivers. This study offers insights for breeding better crops.

    globalplantcouncil.org/new-tom #PlantScience #PlantSci #Science #Plants #Tomato #Solanum #Potato #Botany

  6. For those interested in growing potatoes, here's some before and after pics I took yesterday. The one on the right has an additional layer of pine needles topped off with several inches of composted cow manure. The sticks are driven into the ground to keep the pile from collapsing. It's ugly, but the idea is to keep burying the stem every several weeks to encourage generation of tubers at nodes. #potatoes #solanum #allotment #garden #VegetableGardening

  7. Dots of unexpected color against the winter drab

    Carolina Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense) #Berries #Solanum

  8. Blossom-end rot causes black patches in fleshy fruits like #aubergine, tomato and #pepper 🍆 🍅 🫑

    This paper looks at a #starch-deficient #tomato mutant which is particularly #resistant to this, with only minor effects on #fruit size and #ripening - wow!

    doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad212

    #TranscriptionalReprogramming #pyrophosphorylase #BlossomEndRot, #Carbohydrate #lipid #Solanum #fruit #development, #metabolism #stress

  9. Blossom-end rot causes black patches in fleshy fruits like #aubergine, tomato and #pepper 🍆 🍅 🫑

    This paper looks at a #starch-deficient #tomato mutant which is particularly #resistant to this, with only minor effects on #fruit size and #ripening - wow!

    doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad212

    #TranscriptionalReprogramming #pyrophosphorylase #BlossomEndRot, #Carbohydrate #lipid #Solanum #fruit #development, #metabolism #stress

  10. Blossom-end rot causes black patches in fleshy fruits like #aubergine, tomato and #pepper 🍆 🍅 🫑

    This paper looks at a #starch-deficient #tomato mutant which is particularly #resistant to this, with only minor effects on #fruit size and #ripening - wow!

    doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad212

    #TranscriptionalReprogramming #pyrophosphorylase #BlossomEndRot, #Carbohydrate #lipid #Solanum #fruit #development, #metabolism #stress

  11. Blossom-end rot causes black patches in fleshy fruits like #aubergine, tomato and #pepper 🍆 🍅 🫑

    This paper looks at a #starch-deficient #tomato mutant which is particularly #resistant to this, with only minor effects on #fruit size and #ripening - wow!

    doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad212

    #TranscriptionalReprogramming #pyrophosphorylase #BlossomEndRot, #Carbohydrate #lipid #Solanum #fruit #development, #metabolism #stress

  12. None of the [not-tomato] seeds that I sowed in the pot at the onset of summer ever germinated, but apparently some seeds from last year's cherry tomatoes survived the frosty winter and germinated in numbers instead.

    Interestingly, one of the plants has “eggplant coloured” leaves and tomatoes (though I don't know what the colour will be like once they're ripe), and I've never had any “black” tomatoes in my garden until now (and the rest of the plants in the rather big pot have the normal green colour) so either the plants last year were promiscuous, or a mutation has happened. Whichever the case, I hope they will be tasty. 😋

    Speaking of frost-hardy tomato seeds:

    Starting tomatoes from seeds is challenging here because of the peculiar spring climate we have: most often it is too damn cold for too long time, and then at the beginning of June it goes from very cold spring to almost summer in just one day. So what happens is I keep thinking it's much too cold for sowing yet until it's almost too late. When will I learn…

    But since tomato seeds apparently are frost-hardy, how about just sowing the whole lot outside in the autumn, then they can germinate at their own pace when they feel the temperature is appropriate. Would that be such a bad idea? Has any of you guys grown tomatoes from seeds that way?

    /cc [ #bloomscrolling | #florespondence | #gardening | @gardening | #plants | @plants | #Solanaceae | #Solanum lycopersicum | #tomato 🍅 ]
  13. Freenode IRC resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s crown prince - Freenode currently ranges between roughly 75,000 and 90,000 users—that's a far cr... - arstechnica.com/?p=1767203 #internetrelaychat #solanum #tech #foss #irc