Potato seeds

I've been madly curious for a while now.  Potato plants produce blossoms.  The pollinated blossoms produce little green seed pods.  Apart from loss of hybrid characteristics, what happens if I plant those seeds?  Everyone (I mean my neighbors with their years of folk knowledge) tells me nothing will grow or else the resulting potatoes will be tiny.  Understanding a little of how they think, I conclude: 1) Either they're totally right or 2) They're somewhat right because of the loss of hybrid characteristics or 3) They think of those seed pods as tiny potatoes which will, therefore, produce tiny tubers.  We live in the empire of potatoes of the planet, here, but folk knowledge specific has waned hugely and so many people my own age have no idea of the "how," "why," or "let's experiment with..." of experiential knowledge.  They are incredibly good at the "what", the doing, of what they already know.

My neighbors are very proud of their ancestors who developed so many kinds of potatoes, but by now much of the farming knowledge they have is very rigid, non-experimental customary practices, and combined with very specific instructions given to them by modern agricultural consultants to help them improve yields, etc.  And they do make ends meet, that's certainly not what I'm fixated on.  I'm just a foreigner hanging out among them, maybe just 15% gone-native, experimenting because it's fun.  And gradually getting "infected" with the values of permaculture and family farming.  

But the potato seeds thing.  I tend to presume that any seed pod on any plant allowed to mature and dry on-plant, can most definitely grow something.  The unknowns are things like, would those seeds require special conditions I don't know about? Would they produce... a poisonous throwback tuber from up the line of its nightshade ancestry?

I'm not afraid to experiment myself; it will just be a while before I get the chance because I'd rather grow my own potato plant first and let it dry out, than ask one of my neighbors to leave one isolated potato plant unharvested in the corner of some field.  They already have enough weird points on me!

While you do have to be careful regarding what you are buying … potato seeds vs seed potatoes….. I have several packets of potato seeds.  

Perpetual cloning damages the genetics of the clones. Potatoes have been cloned for so long, that 85% of commercially available varieties can't make seeds. Potato seeds develop in berries that resemble grape sized green tomatoes.

The same methods commonly used for tomatoes, may be used for saving and starting tomato seeds. The small seeds start slowly. They prefer to germinate in cooler temperatures. They need brighter lighting. If they  grow more than 7 weeks in pots, they may start to make tubers which messes up the life-cycle.

About 10% of the offspring tend towards greatness. About 10% tend towards sorrow. All potatoes contain some poison. They are not eaten raw, because cooking deactivates the poison. Some plants will contain very little, a few will taste nasty poisonous. A bell curve best describes the situation.

Like any plant breeding, offspring tend to resemble their parents/grandparents, so if you start with great parents, you tend towards great offspring.

More details on my web site: https://lofthouse.com/botanical-potato-seed.phtml

What they are called is TPS or True Potato Seed. Check out this thread for video proof!
https://permies.com/t/173812/Benefits-growing-potatoes-true-seedI

Fantastic! So informative, thanks everybody!
This community is so much better than the internet at large for farm questions.

I do attempt to search the forums for answers before starting new threads, but I have yet to learn the best tricks for finding what I'm after.