Valencia is a late blight and scab resistance variety. The harvesting duration is 80-85 days which is 5-10 days earlier than the regular varieties in our country. The average weight is 80 gm with about 70% tubers. It can be used as table as well as industrial potato. The dry matter percentage is about 21%. It can be stored 70-75 days in normal temperature.
The variety has an oil absorption capacity below about 3%, making it a very suitable variety for making delicious French fries. The processing loss is less than 2%. Scab is a common disease in white skin color potatoes in our country, due to which the farmers lose about 20-30% of the yield. Growers can easily avoid this damage as the Valencia variety is tolerant to scab disease.
Characteristics
- Skin colour: Light Yellow
- Flesh colour: Light Yellow
- Fries quality: Excellent (score 2.0)
- Tuber shape: Long oval
- Tubers per plant: 9 – 11
- Maturity: Second early
- Dormancy: Average
- Berries: Few
- Cooking type: BC
- Average tuber length: ~99 mm
- Washability: Good
- Underwater weight: 385 – 410 g
- Dry matter: 21 – 22%
Sensitivities
- Bruising: Quite sensitive
- Mechanical damage: Quite sensitive
- Growth cracks: Slightly sensitive
- Secondary growth: Slightly sensitive
- Metribuzin (Sencor): Slightly sensitive
- Drought: Quite sensitive
- Hollow hearts: Quite sensitive
Resistances
- Y virus: Slightly susceptible
- Yntn virus: Slightly susceptible
- Spraing: Slightly susceptible
- Tuber blight: Quite susceptible
- Foliage blight: Susceptible
- Fusarium: Susceptible
- Common scab: Slightly susceptible
- Wart disease F1: Susceptible (<5)
- Wart disease F2: Susceptible (<5)
- Wart disease F6: Susceptible (<5)
- Wart disease F18: Resistant (score 9)
- PCN Ro1: Susceptible
- PCN Ro2/3: Susceptible
- PCN Pa2: Susceptible
- PCN Pa3: Susceptible
- Silver scurf: Quite susceptible
- Early blight: Quite susceptible
- Leaf roll: --
