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Tubers of the Tom Wagner potato (Solanum tuberosum) variety 'Azul Toro'
Tubers of the Tom Wagner potato (Solanum tuberosum) variety 'Azul Toro'
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Barries of the Tom Wagner potato (Solanum tuberosum) variety 'Azul Toro'
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Tubers of the Tom Wagner potato (Solanum tuberosum) variety 'Azul Toro'
Tubers of the Tom Wagner potato (Solanum tuberosum) variety 'Azul Toro'
Flower of the Tom Wagner potato (Solanum tuberosum) variety 'Azul Toro'
Barries of the Tom Wagner potato (Solanum tuberosum) variety 'Azul Toro'

True Potato Seeds (TPS), Azul Toro, 100 seeds

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Category: True Potato Seeds (TPS) Tags: Beginner TPS, Blue flesh potato, Blue skin potato, Early to mid maturity potato, High dormancy potato, Male fertile potato, Self fertile potato, Tetraploid potato, Tom Wagner potato
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True potato seed information and growing instructions
These seeds are likely to produce some varieties with unsafe levels of potato glycoalkaloids

Azul Toro is one of Tom Wagner‘s more famous potato varieties and deservedly so.  It is a heavy producer of medium sized tubers with dark blue skin and flesh and excellent flavor.  Tom created this variety in 1995 from a cross of his varieties Negro y Azul and Kern Toro.  It was recommended in several of Carol Deppe’s books, which has sustained interest in this potato 25 years on.

Unlike tomatoes, which grow true from seed, potato varieties must be grown every year to survive and they also need to be periodically cultured in a laboratory to free them of viruses.  Because of this, the majority of Tom’s potato varieties have been lost.  In many cases, even his most popular varieties are now grown by only a few people, since they have accumulated viruses and become unproductive over the years.  Azul Toro was last grown at field scale in 2007.  When I tested a plant from the last remaining source before cleanup, it was positive for five viruses: Potato Leafroll Virus, and Potato Viruses A, S, X, and Y.  The fact that it still produced reasonably well with such a virus burden may indicate that it has particularly good resistance.  I have cleaned this variety of all but one, PVS, which is typically the virus that I have the most trouble eliminating.  I’m still working on it, but I’ll get there eventually.

Culinary Traits

Azul Toro is a multi-purpose type, with fairly moist flesh, and has excellent flavor for a blue.  It roasts and boils about equally well and lacks the slightly bitter aftertaste so often present in blue potatoes.  Tubers are oblong, mostly in the four to five inch range, with the occasional monster tuber up to ten inches long.  The largest tubers tend to get a bit lumpy, but most of the tubers are smooth and uniform.  When grown under cool temperatures, the flesh is a vivid, solid blue.  At higher soil temperatures, it is more muted, as is the case for all varieties with blue or red flesh.  It retains most of the color in cooking, coming out a lighter but still solid blue.

Agronomic Traits

This is an early to mid-season potato, reported to yield in about 75-90 days from emergence in warmer climates, but about 100 days here.  It also has spectacular looking flowers and produces fertile pollen.  It has a complex pedigree going back to a Solanum chacoense hybrid among other things and has a reputation for heat tolerance.  It may also have some resistance to Colorado potato beetles through that heritage.  Stolons can be rather long on this variety, reaching out a foot or more.  This is a tetraploid variety with excellent dormancy. Azul Toro is a moderate seed producer and benefits significantly from hand pollination.

Fertility:  MF2, FF7

True Seed (TPS)

True seed is open pollinated and I expect that it was overwhelmingly self-pollinated since Azul Toro is male fertile and these plants were grown in isolation.  In the past, TPS of Azul Toro has given a mix of blue with blue flesh, blue with white flesh, red with white flesh, and white with white flesh.  The progeny tend to be early and vigorous plants.  Somewhat slow germination, probably indicating that this seed has some dormancy.  I’ve run across some bitter potatoes from these seeds, so I added the scary glycoalkaloid warning.

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