The Telma potato variety features pale-yellow skin and white flesh, with an oval to oblong shape and firm texture. It's versatile for boiling, steaming, roasting, baking, and mashing, offering a creamy interior and crispy exterior when cooked. Telma potatoes are adaptable to various growing conditions, thriving in well-drained soils and temperate climates, and providing a good yield with moderate to good resistance to common potato diseases.
Plant and Tuber Characteristics
- Foliage Maturity: Late
- Emergence: Fairly Fast
- Plant Vigour: Very High
- Tuber Shape: Short Oval
- Shape Uniformity: Medium
- Eye Depth: Fairly Deep
- Skin Colour: Pale Yellow
- Flesh Colour: White
- Tuber Size: Fairly Large
- Tuber Set: Fairly High (9-11)
Resistances
- Resistance to Foliage Late Blight: Moderate
- Resistance to Tuber Late Blight: Fairly Low
- Resistance to Pvy: Very High
- Resistance to Pvyntn: Very High
- Resistance to G.rostochiensis (RO1-4): Full
- Resistance to G.rostochiensis (RO2-3): Moderate
- Resistance to G.pallida(PA2): Null
- Resistance to G.pallida(PA3): Null
- Resistance to Wart Disease (F1): Full
- Resistance to Wart Disease (F2): Fairly High
- Resistance to Wart Disease (F6): Very High
- Resistance to Wart Disease (F18): Very High
Quality
- Yield: High
- Dry Matter Content: Very High (27-29%)
- Starch Content: Very High (20,5-22,5%)
- UWW: Very High (510-550)
- Frying Colour at Harvest: Medium
- Storage Ability: High
