Description
The Tyson potato variety is a medium to late maturing, high-yielding cultivar with versatile culinary applications.
Key facts
- Suitability: Baking and chips
- Owner: Stet Holland BV
- Origin: Netherlands
- SA distribution: Wesgrow
- Introduction: 2016
- Parentage: Sylvana
- Yield: High
Agronomic traits
- Emergence: Uniform with strong foliage development
- Internal bruising: Not sensitive; however, handle tubers carefully
- Metribuzin sensitivity: Sensitive
Cooking type
Fresh and for processing; slightly firm; suitable for boiling, mashing, roasting, and baking.
Tuber characteristics
- Skin colour: Yellow
- Flesh colour: Light yellow
- Tuber shape: Round to round oval
- Dry matter: High (20 to 22%)
- Specific gravity: 1.086
- Storage properties: Good
- Maturity: Medium late
- Growth period: Short
Disease resistance
- Bruising: Not sensitive
- Common scab: Slightly susceptible
- Late blight: Slightly susceptible
- Powdery scab: Slightly susceptible
- PVY virus: Very susceptible
- Scab: Good resistance
- Tuber blight: Susceptible
For more information, visit www.hzpc.com/our-locations/canadausa/canadausavarieties/tyson#scroll-to-content and www.potatopro.com/potato-varieties/tyson
Disclosure: The information provided here is sourced from global and local data and general agricultural practices, which may not fully reflect South African conditions. For guidance tailored to your specific region and circumstances, please consult your local seed agronomist