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Cultivar check: Up-to-date

November 7, 2025

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Description

  • Up-to-Date is a popular variety that produces oval, white-skinned tubers with cream flesh and shallow eyes.
  • It is popular in curries and stews, as it is a gravy soaker.

Key facts

  • Suitability: Fresh, with multipurpose uses
  • Owner: A Findlay
  • Origin: United Kingdom
  • SA distribution: Open variety
  • Introduction: 1894
  • Yield: Moderate

Agronomic traits

  • Growth time: Medium to long (90 to 120 days)
  • Tuber dormancy: 90 days

Cooking type

  • Its floury texture makes it very suitable for stews.
  • It has poor storage-keeping properties.

Tuber characteristics

  • Skin colour: White
  • Flesh colour: Cream
  • Tuber shape: Oval
  • Maturity: Medium to long (90 to 120 days)
  • Eyes: Shallow

Disease resistance

  • Spraing: Susceptible
  • Common scab: Susceptible
  • Early blight: Susceptible
  • Late blight: Susceptible
  • Tuber blight: Susceptible
  • Scab: Susceptible
  • Bruising: Susceptible
  • Leaf roll: Susceptible
  • Powdery scab: Susceptible
  • PVY virus: Susceptible
  • Nematodes: Susceptible

For more information, visit www.potatopro.com or www.potatoesafrica.co.za/PAvarietiesUptodate.html

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