Potato varieties Luck every year appears on sale one of the first. Its tubers look attractive, and thin skin allows you to prepare dishes, getting a minimum of waste.
This variety has been obtained by Russian breeders as a result of many years of effort and for good reason has won recognition and is popular with both farmers and consumers.
Luck is a potato immune to many diseases and pests. It is excellently stored, maintains low temperatures. And, most importantly, it is one of the most delicious varieties of potatoes. In this article you will find a description of the variety, get acquainted with its features and characteristics.
Variety description
| Grade name | Luck |
| general characteristics | early ripe table variety of Russian breeding, adapted to different soil types |
| Gestation period | 65-80 days |
| Starch content | 11-15% |
| Mass of commercial tubers | 100-150 gr |
| The number of tubers in the bush | 10-15 |
| Yield | up to 430 c / ha |
| Consumer quality | good taste |
| Recumbency | 88-97% |
| Skin color | yellow |
| Pulp color | white |
| Preferred growing regions | Central, North-West, Middle Volga, Volga-Vyatka, Far Eastern, Central Black Earth |
| Disease resistance | susceptible to late blight, golden potato nematode, Alternaria |
| Features of growing | resistant to waterlogging and drought |
| Originator | GNU Institute of Potatoes them. A.G. Lorkha (Russia) |
The thin skin is light cream, beige or yellowish. Tubers smooth to the touch. The eyes are small, clearly visible on the light skin. They can be dark brown, grayish or reddish in color.
Color - the light beige color of the tubers can become a little more intense, to light brown. Form - tubers are round or round-oval in shape, mostly not too elongated. The absence of noticeable irregularities allows you to peel such potatoes quickly and almost without waste.
Starch content is on average starch content from 12% to 14% of the total weight of tubers. The flesh of raw, freshly cut potatoes is white. When boiling potatoes Luck becomes yellowish.
The starch content in other potato varieties is presented in the table below:
| Grade name | Starch content |
| Latona | 16-20% |
| Kamensky | 16-18% |
| Zorachka | 12-14% |
| Impala | 10-14% |
| Spring | 11-15% |
| Arosa | 12-14% |
| Timo | 13-14% |
| Farmer | 9-12% |
| Meteor | 10-16% |
| Juvel | 10-15% |
The mass or size of tubers are relatively large potato tubers. Luck, however, are rarely gigantic. An average tuber weighs between 120 and 250 g, but smaller tubers are also in demand.
The bush grows of medium height, but very thick, often covered with leaves. Flowers snow white. Their petals are noticeably bent. Leaves intense dark green, dull.
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Specifications
Luck is one of the varieties adapted for various soil types and several climatic zones.
In Russia, the best harvests are harvested in the Middle Volga, Central Black Earth and Far Eastern regions. However, the remaining yields are not much worse. Potatoes Luck is widely cultivated throughout Russia and in the countries of the former USSR: Ukraine, Moldova, and other countries.
The harvest is quite dependent on climate and favorable weather, to a lesser extent - on the soil. It can be said that with proper care every bush of potato Luck will give at least one kilogram of tubers. Potato Luck consistently yields high yields.
Compare the yield Good luck with other varieties of potatoes can be in the table below:
| Grade name | Yield (kg / ha) |
| Minerva | up to 430 |
| Kiranda | 110-320 |
| Dolphin | 160-470 |
| Rogneda | 190-350 |
| Granada | up to 600 |
| Magician | up to 400 |
| Lasock | up to 620 |
| Zhuravinka | up to 640 |
| Blue | up to 500 |
| Ryabinushka | up to 400 |
The good taste of this variety was repeatedly confirmed by experts at different levels.
Often potatoes planted in May, yield at the end of June. It is believed that the time of ripening potatoes Good luck - 60 days from the appearance of seedlings. Young potatoes are tried starting from the 45th day. It has a very tender flesh.
The rather crumbly flesh of potatoes Luck allows you to make excellent mashed potatoes out of it. Fried potatoes retain their shape well, always appetizing and very tasty.
An important feature of this variety: in case of mechanical damage, the flesh of the tuber does not change its color. The center of the future defeat is not formed. It tolerates drought. Potatoes Luck is well and feels good yields on both dense and sandy soils.
When planting should pay attention to what plants grew here last season. The best potato precursors for dense soils: perennial grasses, legumes, winter crops. If lupine grew on sandy soil, this would be an ideal option.
For such diseases as viral or rhizoctoniosis, the potato variety Luck is unusually resistant. Resistance to late blight is considered relative.
It shows moderately high resistance to the next series of diseases:
- wrinkled mosaic;
- blackleg;
- wet rot;
- common scab.
As for pests, special attention should be paid to the prevention and control of the Colorado potato beetle.Read detailed materials on traditional methods and chemicals used in the processing of plants.
Fortune potatoes are excellently stored in the winter, frost-resistant and is one of the most beloved varieties.
We also suggest you to get acquainted with other varieties that have a variety of ripening terms:
| Superstore | Early maturing | Medium early |
| Farmer | Bellarosa | Innovator |
| Minerva | Timo | Pretty boy |
| Kiranda | Spring | American |
| Karatop | Arosa | Crown |
| Juvel | Impala | Manifesto |
| Meteor | Zorachka | Elizabeth |
| Zhukovsky early | Colette | Vega | Riviera | Kamensky | Tiras |
