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Connect - Organic Seed Potatoes

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Bestseller!! Connect potato is a highly blight resistant, scab resistant, bruise resitant light yellow oval maincrop. It is becoming a main variety in organic production due to its disease resistance, eating quality, high yield and robustness. Please contact us for bulk orders. More details below.

Certified organic

Connect - Blight Resistant Seed Potatoes

  • A fairly new but already proven variety. Popular with organic growers in Holland and Sweden.
  • Connect seed potatoes are a main crop potato.
  • Connect Potato have very high blight resistance - both tuber and foliage.
  • Light yellow oval tubers with light yellow flesh and shallow eyes.
  • Excellent taste and texture that was a real favourite at trials in Fruit Hill Farm.
  • High dry matter.
  • Connect seed potatoes are also resistant to wart disease and have a high resistance to scab.
  • Connect has a high resistance to harvest damage like bruising.
  • Excellent yields, make spacing in row close (25cm) to keep size of tuber medium.
  • Seed 35-55 mm.

Plant

Plant Maturity: Medium early to Medium late
Growth habit: Upright
Foliage development: Very rapid to Rapid
Number of tubers: Medium
Dormancy: High

Tuber characteristics

Tuber shape: Round oval
Flesh color: Yellow, Light yellow
Eye depth: Shallow
Skin color: Yellow
Skin characteristic: Smooth to Netted


Resistances

Potato wart disease: Found resistant in 1 country
Leaf blight: High
Tuber blight: High
Common scab:  Medium, High
Internal rust spot:  Medium, High
Damages: Medium, High

Viruses: Very High

Yield and Quality

Market outlet: Ware, Directmarketing, Pre-packing, Organic
Yield: Medium, High
Share oversize: Medium, High
Share undersize: Very low, Low
Cooking type: Fairly firm cooking
After cooking discoloration: Medium
Dry matter content: Medium, High

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