Red Pontiac

Parentage: Bliss Triumpk x Katahdin

Characteristics

  • Parentage: Bliss Triumpk x Katahdin

  • Maturity: Second Early

  • Flowers: Red Violet

  • Tuber Shape: Short Oval

  • Tuber Skin: Red

  • Tuber Flesh: Cream

Red Pontiac

Resistances

Splitting
Bruising
Silver Scurf
Dry Rot (F. sulphureum)
Dry Rot (F. coeruleum)
Skin Spot
Potato Virus Y
Potato Leafroll Virus
PCN (G. Rostoch Ro1)
PCN (G. Pallida Pa 2/3, 1)
Powdery Scab
Common Scab
Blackleg
Tuber Blight
Foliage Blight

Consumer Quality

An American bred early maincrop variety producing large roundoval redskinned tubers with a creamy waxy flesh. Widely accepted for it taste and cooking qualities.

Agronomic Features

Early bulking variety well suited to Meditteranean, Cuba and South American countries.

Sucrose %Glucose %Dry MatterMarketable %
Lionheart0.0190.00920.990.2
Markies0.0860.00919.883.5
Pentland Dell0.0960.01221.384.7
Maris Piper0.1050.02622.093.7