Olga

Perfect for the production of crisps, but it is also suitable for processing into dehydrated potato products and potato starch.

Variety characteristic:

Olga is a plant of medium height. The inflorescence is abundant and the flowers are colored white. Tubers of the Olga variety are uniform and medium-sized. Olga develops about 20 tubers at the height of the mother tuber. It has a very low content of reducing sugars, lower than the leading varieties in the chip industry. Thanks to this, after frying, the prepared product has a uniform, light yellow color. It is not prone to external and internal defects of the tubers, which guarantees obtaining a final product of very high quality.

Plant and tuber:

Flesh colour: light yellow
Skin colour: yellow
Tuber shape: round
Eye depth: 6,8 – shallow, except for the more pronounced apical eyes
Foliage development: uniform emergence
Storage ability: 7,0 – very good
Yield: 38 t/ha – medium
Starch yield: 6,7 t/ha
Dormancy period: long
Vegetation period: 107 days

Consumption quality:

Cooking type: BC/C – fairly mealy to mealy
Starch content: 18,5 %
Dry matter content: about 23 %
Content of reducing sugars: 0,12 %

Resistances:

PCN: Ro1 – resistant
Potato wart disease: D1 – resistant
Common scab: 6,0 – medium
Mechanical damage: 6,0 – medium
Foliage blight: 4,5 – medium
Tuber blight: 4,5 – medium
Potato virus Y (PVY): 8,0 – very high

Site requirements:

Olga has medium demands water supply and fertilization. It will do well in fertile and permeable soils. It does not tolerate long periods of water shortages.

Wybierz	Crisps, Flakes And Dehydrated Products, Starch, Table varieties
Wybierz	Mid-early
Wybierz	B (slightly mealy), BC (mealy)
Wybierz	Light yellow
Wybierz	Yellow
Soil demand	Middle
Shape tubers	Round

Wybierz

Crisps, Flakes And Dehydrated Products, Starch, Table varieties