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Potato fruit dried out

 
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I have a single potato fruit that I collected this year and was planning to try to plant the seeds of this spring. Its been sitting out in my garage since fall and I just discovered that it us now dried up like a prune or a date. Its hard to tell what's seed and what's mushed up flakes of dried potato berry flesh.

What should I do? Are the seeds ruined? Should I just plant some fleshy clumps and see if seeds germinate? Is it too late to try to squish it up and soak it all in water?
 
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If it were me, I'd just crush it up and plant it, which mimics the natural life cycle of potatoes better than extracting seeds.

 
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Glad to hear that Joseph, I'll give that a try.  I've got some .more of your potato seeds to plantt too, and 3 tubers from your potato seeds that I started two years ago. I love the variety and resilience I've gotten from true potato seed
 
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