BP1 is a popular potato variety in South Africa, known for its oval shape and white flesh. It's a versatile potato suitable for various cooking methods, including boiling, roasting, and frying.
Botanical Properties
Growth habit: Medium to tall plants with erect stems that develop rapidly and provide good foliage cover.
Flowers: Many blue flowers.
Tubers: Oval tubers with smooth white skin, shallow eyes, and white flesh.
Agronomic Properties
Growing period: Medium, approximately 90–110 days.
Yield: High yield potential.
Tuber appearance: Regular tuber shape.
Tuber dormancy: Short to medium, approximately 90 days after haulm destruction.
General: BP1 is sensitive to metribuzin and requires lower nitrogen application rates.
Consumer Properties
Eating quality: Good eating quality with a firm cooking type. It is considered a versatile table potato preferred by consumers.
Processing quality: Poor due to its low dry matter content.
Keeping quality: Moderate.
Disease Resistance
Late blight: Susceptible, but manageable through an appropriate fungicide spray programme.
Early blight: Susceptible, but manageable through an appropriate fungicide spray programme.
Virus diseases: Moderately susceptible to Potato Leaf Roll Virus and susceptible to Potato virus Y.
Common scab: Very susceptible.
Wart disease: Immune.
