These are excellent baked, mashed, or used for French fries. Moderately resistant to common scab and verticillium wilt.
Resistant to golden nematode race RO1. Mid-season-maturing large plants with excellent vigor.
Caribou performs well under dryland conditions with excellent early vine development and plant vigor and is very heat and drought tolerant. It produces high yields and is easy to grow.
It stores well, but storage management requires attention as the variety has a short tuber dormancy.
- Utilization: Fresh market and French Fry production
- Maturity: Maincrop (105-115 DAP)
- Yield: High to very High
- Skin Color: Light Russet texture, light to medium netted
- Flesh Color: White
- Tuber Shape: Oblong
- Tuber Size: Medium to Large
- Tuber Set: 7-9
- Dry Matter: 20.0-21.0 %
- Dormancy: Short to medium
- Storage: Medium
Variety Strengths:
- Very high Marketable yield
- Quick bulking in last 5-7 days
- Very uniform shape and type
- High tolerance to Heat to Drought
- Moderately resistant to common scab
- Moderately resistant to Verticillium wilt
- Moderately resistant to Powdery scab
- Moderate to high tolerance to bruising and mechanical handling
- Low incidence of Secondary growth, Growth cracks, and Hollow heart
- Good eating quality and good taste and texture profile
- Will fry from 50 F storage for short to mid-term storage duration(January/February)
