Santa Ana potato variety

**Tom Wagner** · July 16, 2012

Santa Ana, a variety from Peru is going to be represented more frequently in my potato breeding efforts. It is a beautiful violet skinned potato that yield well for me. It seemed to have good storability left in the ground all winter and though it has a short dormancy it acted as a long dormancy potato in our cool climate here north of Seattle. The tubers seemed resistant to freezing damge and the yields are outstanding.

I am featuring some of the potatoes that I make crosses to and hope to make some of the obscure Peruvian potatoes more ubiquitous. Santa Ana has been around for 35 years, but maybe I can supply TPS from the crosses I make. The first picture below is one in my field. The second shows the color of the tubers.

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I will have more tubers this Fall to provide culinary details since I have multiple hills. No late blight injury on this clone for years now.

meadowyck · July 16, 2012

Looks very interesting. Thanks for the info on it.

July 16, 2012	#1
Tom Wagner Crosstalk™ Forum Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 8407 18th Ave West 7-203 Everett, Washington 98204 Posts: 1,157	Santa Ana potato variety Santa Ana, a variety from Peru is going to be represented more frequently in my potato breeding efforts. It is a beautiful violet skinned potato that yield well for me. It seemed to have good storability left in the ground all winter and though it has a short dormancy it acted as a long dormancy potato in our cool climate here north of Seattle. The tubers seemed resistant to freezing damge and the yields are outstanding. I am featuring some of the potatoes that I make crosses to and hope to make some of the obscure Peruvian potatoes more ubiquitous. Santa Ana has been around for 35 years, but maybe I can supply TPS from the crosses I make. The first picture below is one in my field. The second shows the color of the tubers. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Zy3lO.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wRw44.png[/IMG] I will have more tubers this Fall to provide culinary details since I have multiple hills. No late blight injury on this clone for years now.

July 16, 2012	#2
meadowyck Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2012 Location: Brooksville, FL Posts: 1,001	Looks very interesting. Thanks for the info on it. __________________ Jan “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt