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%
