Post by Tom Wagner on Oct 30, 2013 23:24:12 GMT -8
Huckleberry Gold known previously as
A99326-1PY
Parents are….
Agria x COA94019-5R
I was invited to give a peer review for this variety about to be published.
I was flattered in being selected for such an honor but did not know how to navigate the site. I am late in even doing this post but so bit by bit I am doing it now.
Fresh cut Huckleberry Gold potato variety
Microwaved Huckleberry Gold
potatoes.wsu.edu/trials/2010/REDSPEC/RedSpec%20PDFs/A99326-1PY.pdf
It did well enough here in the Seattle area. The skin was not as smooth as I would like…since blue, purple, violet and red potato skin is better if dug a bit early as to not allow the maturing tubers to get rough flakey skin and loose some of the brightness of color.
It had a sensory mouth feel as less solid than a Yukon Gold and the flesh color a bit lighter than it too.
The flavor was good but our tuber samples had gotten a bit green due the storage of the tubers not in the best condition.
I especially like the fact that our breeding work with Huckleberry Gold was used as a female with a cross from my Nordic October. The hybrid seed will throw red skin and violet purple skin…light yellow flesh to white flesh and smoother skin by far. The TPS will be sown in the winter greenhouses near San Diego soon.
Wish I could say more, but I am looking forward to this variety being offered to the industry. My impression is that Agria was a good choice in the cross. Agria is a good flavored potato and one of the best out of Europe. I don’t know too much about the male line but that it is a red skin..white flesh selection bred in Colorado and selected in Idaho. Agria has some purple pigments in the sprouts and that contributed the purple skin in the hybrid.
The outstanding cyst nematode resistance is outstanding to have in a new release...and so is the virus X resistance.
I have a twenty five year collection of TPS that has a simlar color as Huckleberry Gold. Maybe I will dust off that seed this winter and grow some mini tubers to plant out next season.
A99326-1PY
Parents are….
Agria x COA94019-5R
I was invited to give a peer review for this variety about to be published.
Invitation to Peer Review #AJPR-D-13-00090
American Journal of Potato Research
American Journal of Potato Research
I was flattered in being selected for such an honor but did not know how to navigate the site. I am late in even doing this post but so bit by bit I am doing it now.
Fresh cut Huckleberry Gold potato variety
Microwaved Huckleberry Gold
potatoes.wsu.edu/trials/2010/REDSPEC/RedSpec%20PDFs/A99326-1PY.pdf
It did well enough here in the Seattle area. The skin was not as smooth as I would like…since blue, purple, violet and red potato skin is better if dug a bit early as to not allow the maturing tubers to get rough flakey skin and loose some of the brightness of color.
It had a sensory mouth feel as less solid than a Yukon Gold and the flesh color a bit lighter than it too.
The flavor was good but our tuber samples had gotten a bit green due the storage of the tubers not in the best condition.
I especially like the fact that our breeding work with Huckleberry Gold was used as a female with a cross from my Nordic October. The hybrid seed will throw red skin and violet purple skin…light yellow flesh to white flesh and smoother skin by far. The TPS will be sown in the winter greenhouses near San Diego soon.
Wish I could say more, but I am looking forward to this variety being offered to the industry. My impression is that Agria was a good choice in the cross. Agria is a good flavored potato and one of the best out of Europe. I don’t know too much about the male line but that it is a red skin..white flesh selection bred in Colorado and selected in Idaho. Agria has some purple pigments in the sprouts and that contributed the purple skin in the hybrid.
The outstanding cyst nematode resistance is outstanding to have in a new release...and so is the virus X resistance.
I have a twenty five year collection of TPS that has a simlar color as Huckleberry Gold. Maybe I will dust off that seed this winter and grow some mini tubers to plant out next season.