A popular, widely-grown variety with well-known performance

• Maturity: Early
• Yield: Medium (250 to 350 cwt/a, marketable). Sensitive to low pH
• Tuber set: Medium. Plant at spacing of 9 - 12 inches
• Nitrogen: 160-180 lb/a (mineral soils); 100 lb/a (muck)
• Specific gravity: Medium (1.07 to 1.096, avg. 1.076)
• Diseases: Resistant to net necrosis, pink rot and common scab. Susceptible to golden nematode Ro1, blackleg, fusarium, PVLR, PVX, PVY, verticilium wilt, pressure bruise, late blight, early blight, CPB
• Storage: Stores well, even though it has a short dormancy
• Market: Early fresh market and chipping. The primary variety for shipping directly from the field. Chips well out of storage
• Advantages: Moderately high yield potential with minimum losses to skinning during harvesting and grading. Tubers size early and are not subject to internal defects

• Plant
  • Medium plants. Erect to spreading vines
  • Pale lilac flowers with white tips and stripes extending to the center
• Tubers
  • Round to oblong, slightly irregular
  • Medium shallow eyes
  • Skin is buff with tendency for light flaky russet
  • White flesh

• Taste/flavor: Good.
• Texture after cooking: Fairly firm, dry. Moist when baked and french fried.
• Uses: Superior mashed. Excellent for potato salads. Good for chipping.