four corners

today's mail brought my four corners potato ( solanum jamesii ) tubers...these are the only potatoes indidgenous to the united states and, spud fancier that i am, i felt the need to see what i could do with them...

these are small tubers and with no experience i have no idea if this is the largest size they attain or if these are simply seed...we will see...

i took the three smallest tubers downstairs...

assembled three pots with compost, perlite, and worm castings...

placed a tuber in each planted about an inch deep...added water...

and put them under the lights with the teosinte...

which is looking cornier every day and will need larger quarters under some different lights soon enough...

i opened the plastic bags the other tubers came in and put them in with the rest of the slumbering seed potatoes down there...if things go as hoped they will remain doemant until spring...if not...there are more lights down there.