Seed potatoes
Seed potatoes
Genetic origin: Clivia x 6430/1011
Breeder (s): Saatzucht Soltau-Bergen – Germany
Catalogue registration: 1983
Category: firm flesh consumption.
Maturity: Average
Descriptive characters
Tuber: Long elongated oblong, regular, shallow eyes,
yellow skin, yellow flesh.
Sprout: Purplish red, conical, medium hairiness.
Plant: fairly high size, intermediate habit, semi-branching type.
Upper: very weak pigmentation, no pronounced wings,
in straight majority.
Leaf: Clear green, moderately divided, half-opened; leaflet
average, oval (I = 1.77); limbus plan.
Flowering: Abundant.
Flower: White, partially pigmented flower bud.
Fruit: Moderately frequent.
cropping characters and use
Yield: 96% of Bintje.
Grading: Proportion of large tubers: fairly low.
Disease Sensitivity: blight foliage: fairly susceptible.
Tuber blight: slightly susceptible.
wart: not attacked. Common scab: slightly susceptible.
Virus X: resistant. Virus A: NTR Virus Y: slightly susceptible.
Leaf roll: moderately susceptible.
Nematode ROI-4: resistant.
Internal tuber defects: Slightly susceptible to
stains. Rust, hollow heart and black spots
sensitivity to sprouting: No susceptible.
Dormancy period: Fairly short.
Culinary quality: good for cooking,
culinary group A, blackening after cooking: nil,
no fry color.
Dry matter content:. Average
Keeping quality: Fairly good.
General characters
Productive variety giving many tubers, regular in shape, medium-sized and good culinary quality.
