- Maturity: Mid- to mid-late season (relative to Atlantic)
- Yield: Medium to High (~366 cwt/a, marketable), with large percentage being marketable tubers
- Tuber set: Medium, slightly less than Atlantic, but tuber weight is greater
- Nitrogen: 125-150 lb./a. (mineral soils); 100 lb./a. (muck)
- Specific gravity: Moderate (1.077 to 1.082), slightly less than Atlantic
- Diseases: Resistant to blackspot and common scab. Susceptible to Golden nematode (Ro1), late blight, leaf-hoppers, CPB
- Storage: Excellent keeper, dormancy is about two weeks longer than Atlantic
- Market: Fresh market, tablestock, chipstock, i.e. chipping (from storage)
- Advantages: Attractive shape, attractive yellow flesh color similar to Yukon Gold, relatively few pick-outs, high yielding results across diverse growing regions, chips better than most yellow-fleshed varieties.
Physical Characteristics
- Plant
- Growth habit/canopy: Semi-erect. Shorter plant with a less upright growth habit than Yukon Gold
- Inflorescence: White, with yellow anthers
- Stems: Absent or very weak anthocyanin coloration, medium thickness, low swelling at nodes
- Leaves: Medium green, closed to intermediate silhouette
- Tubers
- Shape: Round to oblong, slightly flattened, rarely irregularly shaped
- Eyes: Moderately shallow, distributed on apical end
- Skin: Uniform, moderately smooth netted skin, buff color. Yellow at base of eye Flesh color: Pale to moderate yellow with no secondary color
- Other
- Tubers have been described as "strikingly pretty" with fine skin and "bright appearance"
Culinary Characteristics
- Taste/flavor: Good. Excellent for soups, stews, mashing or fries
- Texture after cooking: Medium, resists sloughing and graying when boiled. When baked, they will be moist (waxy)
- Uses: A great all-purpose potato: good for baking, mashing, boiling, frying, home-fries and they make a mean potato salad.
- Presentation: Excellent, its light yellow flesh does not turn gray after boiling
