Plant and tuber:
Flesh colour: light yellow
Skin colour: yellow
Tuber shape: round oval
Eye depth: 6,7 – rather shallow
Foliage development: very rapid, uniform emergence
Storage ability: 8,0 – good
Yield: achieves an average total yield of 55,4 t/ha corresponding to 100% of the reference variety (according to COBORU). A marketable yield of first earlies (40 days after emergence) and second earlies exceeds the yield of the reference variety.
Dormancy period: short
Consumption quality:
Cooking type: AB – slightly firm (starch content 13%)
Taste: 6,8 – very good
Especially recommended for: salads, steamed and boiled potatoes
Resistances:
PCN: Ro1 – resistant
Synchytrium endobioticum: patotype D1 – resistant
Common scab: 6,0 – medium/high
Mechanical damage: medium/high
Foliage blight: 3,0 – medium
Tuber blight: 4,0 – medium
Potato virus Y (PVY): 4,0 – slightly susceptible
Site requirements:
Surmia has middle demands to soil quality and fertilization, and higher requirements to water supply.