Potato ZOLSKY

The potato variety Zolsky is a medium-late table variety with a maturation period of 95 to 110 days. Tubers are elongated-oval, with yellow skin and flesh, weighing from 90 to 119 grams. Starch content in the tubers is 16.6–17.5%, ensuring excellent taste and versatility in cooking: suitable for baking, boiling, and making mashed potatoes. The culinary type of the variety is CD, indicating its high nutritional value and good texture after thermal processing.

Plants of the Zolsky variety have medium height and semi-erect leaf type with medium to large green leaves with wavy edges. Flower corolla is white. The variety has high and stable yield: commercial yield ranges from 140 to 227 centners per hectare, with maximum yields reaching up to 335 centners per hectare. Tubers' marketability reaches 80–92%, and storability is 97%, ensuring long-term storage without quality loss.

A distinctive feature of this variety is its cultivation in a virus-free environment at altitudes up to 2000 meters, achieved through modern selection and seed production technologies used by the company 'Zolsky Potato'. The variety is resistant to potato cancer pathogen, but susceptible to golden potato cyst nematode. High-quality seed material is confirmed by careful tuber grading, field inspections, and post-harvest testing. All these factors make Zolsky potato a popular and reliable choice for cultivation in the North Caucasus region.