The Gerona potato is a medium-late, high-yielding baby potato variety with round-oval, yellow-skinned and yellow-fleshed tubers, producing 20–40 per plant. It is valued for fresh market and peeling, has excellent washability, strong resistance to common scab, wart disease, and PCN, but is somewhat susceptible to foliage and tuber blight.
- High tuber count
- High yield potential
- Suitable for industrial peeling and babies
Characteristics
- Skin colour: Yellow
- Flesh colour: Yellow
- Fries quality: Average (score 2.5)
- Tuber shape: Round-oval
- Tubers per plant: 20 – 30
- Maturity: Early maincrop
- Dormancy: Average
- Berries: Few
- Cooking type: AB
- Average tuber length: ~56 mm
- Washability: Average
- Underwater weight: 325 – 365 g
- Dry matter: 18 – 20%
Sensitivities
- Bruising: Slightly sensitive
- Mechanical damage: Slightly sensitive
- Growth cracks: Slightly sensitive
- Secondary growth: Slightly sensitive
- Metribuzin (Sencor): Slightly sensitive
- Drought: Slightly sensitive
- Hollow hearts: Slightly sensitive
Resistances
- Y virus: Slightly susceptible
- Yntn virus: Slightly susceptible
- Spraing: Slightly susceptible
- Tuber blight: Slightly susceptible
- Foliage blight: Quite susceptible
- Fusarium: Quite susceptible
- Common scab: Slightly susceptible
- Wart disease F1: Not susceptible (score 10)
- Wart disease F2: Not susceptible (score 8)
- Wart disease F6: Resistant (score 9)
- Wart disease F18: --
- PCN Ro1: Slightly susceptible
- PCN Ro2/3: Slightly susceptible
- PCN Pa2: Slightly susceptible
- PCN Pa3: Slightly susceptible
- Silver scurf: Slightly susceptible
- Early blight: Slightly susceptible
- Leaf roll: --
