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Bernina
medium early, firm cooking quality salad potato
- deep yellow flesh colour
- longoval tuber shape
- large sized marketable yield
- Low-Input variety
BERNINA - salad variety with high yield; longoval tuber shape and smooth skin
| Growing recommendations | ||||||||||
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| Site requirements | prefers average to better soil conditions with uniform supply of water and nutrients | |||||||||
| Planting |
for large seed sizes +2 cm
Planting depth
planted 2 cm deeper for high-yielding locations (max. 17 cm soil cover)
Seed preparation
no special preparation necessary
Seed dressing
seek advice; may be sensitive to individual active ingredients
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| Herbicides | exhibits average sensitivity to Metribuzin in the post-emergence | |||||||||
| Foliage | good, average leaf health | |||||||||
| Harvest | standard | |||||||||
| Fertilization incl. return of previous crop at medium supply level | |
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| Nitrogen (N) | low - compared to the local standard (2/3 before planting and 1/3 later) |
| Phosphorus (P2O5) | 100 kg/ha (water soluble phosphate at planting) |
| Potassium (K2O) | 350-270 kg/ha (to ensure the rapid storage of substances; preferably sulphate potassium, up to 80 kg/ha chloride possible) |
| Magnesium (MgO) | 70 kg/ha (for yield and quality assurance) |
| Variety characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Maturity | medium early |
| Cooking type | A - B |
| Consumption quality | firm cooking; very stable, very low discolouration after cooking, good peeling ability |
| Yield | very high tuber yield with high marketable share; large growing tubers |
| Youth development | rapid |
| Dormancy | good dormancy |
| Tuber characteristics | Tuber shape longoval Eye depth very shallow - shallow Flesh colour deep yellow Skin colour yellow Skin smooth Number of tubers high |
| Resistances | PCN
Ro1 (9), Ro4 (9) Potato wart disease
1 |
| Sensitivities | Common scab very low - low Spraing low Bruising very low - low Mechanical damage low |
All particulars are based on official variety trials and/or our own experience. However, as potatoes are natural products we cannot undertake any liability for these details. (06/2021)