Udacha

Included in the State Register for the North-West, Central, Volgo-Vyatsky, North Caucasus and Far East regions of Russia. This early-season type is perfect for cooking and suitable for making into crispy potatoes in autumn period. The stems are medium-tall, the plant is multicaulis and semi-spreading. The leaves are deep green with large parts. The potatoes corollas are white. The tubers are light-beige. The tuber eyes are shallow. The pulp is white.

The yield is 30-50 ton per hectare, but it is 12-15 ton per hectare on the 60th day after planting in case of early digging.

The taste of potatoes is rated from satisfactory to good. The tubers are well stored. Green mass is moderately susceptible and tubers are moderately resistant to late blight, resistant to soft and dry rots, Mosaic viruses, scab and Rhizoctonia rot. Susceptible to Early blight. When chloride potassium fertilizers are applied, the pulp may darken. Seeds should be planted in heated soil. This type of potatoes is ecologically flexible.

Variety value: high yield and marketability, resistance to the complex of diseases and good preservation capacity during winter period.
Year of listing in register is 1994.