Velox is a very early ware potato with cooking type B. Good suitability for washing and pre-packing as well as early French fries production. Medium to large, long and oval tubers with smooth, yellow skin and light-yellow flesh color.
Plant Characteristics
- Maturity: Very early
- Plant Type: Intermediate
- Growth Habit: Upright
- Flower Color: Light red-violet
- Foliage Development: Rapid
- Number of Tubers: Medium
- Dormancy: Medium
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Long oval
- Flesh Color: Light yellow
- Eye Depth: Shallow
- Skin Color: Yellow
- Skin Texture: Netted
Resistances
- Nematodes: Resistant to Ro 1 and Ro 4
- Potato Wart Disease: Resistant to Race 1
- Leaf Blight: Medium resistance
- Tuber Blight: High resistance
- Rhizoctonia: Medium to high resistance
- Black Leg: High resistance
- Common Scab: High resistance
- Internal Rust Spot: Medium resistance
- Damages: Medium susceptibility
- Bruising: High susceptibility
- PVY (Potato Virus Y): Medium resistance
- PVY NTN: High resistance
- PLRV (Potato Leaf Roll Virus): High to very high resistance
Yield and Quality
- Market Outlet: Ware, Pre-packing, French fries
- Yield: Medium to high
- Share of Oversize Tubers: High
- Share of Undersize Tubers: Very low to low
- Cooking Type: Fairly firm cooking
- After-Cooking Discoloration: Low
- Discoloration (Raw): Low
- Dry Matter Content: Low to medium