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Vindika

early, firm cooking ware potato

  • deep yellow flesh colour
  • excellent taste
  • smooth skin, attractive tubers
  • broad PCN resistance and tolerance
VINDIKA - attractive and tasteful salad variety with broad PCN resistance and tolerance
Growing recommendations
Site requirements
prefers average to better soil conditions with uniform supply of water and nutrients
Planting
Seed material sorting
35/55
Row widthTubers/ha
75 cm90 cm
30-32 cm
25-27 cm
43,000
Recommendation plant spacing
Planting depth
standard
Seed preparation
has good dormancy; sensitive to sprout breaking; a temperature shock briefly before planting (3-4 days) is beneficial
Seed dressing
dressing against Rhizoctonia solani recommended
Herbicides
no sensitivities are known when used properly*
Foliage
average leaf health; timely and regular use of fungicides against late blight is advisable
Harvest
sensitive tuber shape, therefore slightly susceptible to damage; harvest gently
Fertilization incl. return of previous crop at medium supply level
Nitrogen (N)
medium - compared to the local standard (2/3 before planting and 1/3 later)
Phosphorus (P2O5)
100 kg/ha (water soluble phosphate for planting)
Potassium (K2O)
350-270 kg/ha (up to 80 kg/ha chloride possible, on lighter soils split doses)
Magnesium (MgO)
70 kg/ha (for yield and quality assurance)
Variety characteristics
Maturityearly
Cooking type
A - B
Consumption quality
firm cooking salad variety; very low discolouration after cooking; excellent taste
Yield
high yield with a fine and uniform grading; high marketable yield
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
medium - high
Resistances
PCN
Ro1 (9), Ro2/3 (9),
Ro5 (9)
Pa2 (8), Pa3 (8)
Potato wart disease
1 (a)
Sensitivities
Common scab
low - medium
Spraing
very low - low
Bruising
very low - low
Mechanical damage
medium

* preliminary | (a) low sensitivities

 

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. (12/2023)