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Why no purple skinned sunchokes on the market -- do they not "carry"?

 
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I'm harvesting purple skinned sunchokes & have an upcoming market. Are they verboten? Or is it they just don't yield as much, cuz I can almost safely assume that?  Thanks, OgreNick
 
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why not offer them at your market? more and more people are open to and wanting to try new things, like 20 years ago there was very little interest in heirloom tomatoes at the farmers markets I attended and today they are in demand and command a premium price.
 
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I like everyone's idea of shelling them, especially if you have a market.  

I ask Mr. Google and only came up with this where purple is mentioned:

https://www.thespruceeats.com/jerusalem-artichokes-sunchokes-selection-and-storage-1807813

There are none for sale on eBay so this might be a good place to market them.

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Does the variety have a name?
 
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Do you have a picture? All the artichokes here have purplish skin, I'm wondering how purple you mean?
 
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most of the sunchokes sold in the states are white-skinned. i prefer the texture of the red- or purple-skinned ones personally. they do seem to yield a bit less than the most common chunky white ones. some people really go for the darker-skinned ones, hope you did decide to take them to market.
 
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Nick Dimitri wrote:I'm harvesting purple skinned sunchokes & have an upcoming market. Are they verboten? Or is it they just don't yield as much, cuz I can almost safely assume that?  Thanks, OgreNick



Doing a little more searching I found this website that has a Red Fusea available at Seed Savers Exchange:

https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/growing-jerusalem-artichokes

Could your purple variety actually be this one?

Where did you get yours?

I would love to see a picture of the skin and the insides.

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i grow ‘red rover’, but haven’t dug any yet. i’ll try get a pic when i do.
 
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