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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
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
for large seed sizes +2 cm
Recommendation plant spacing
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
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
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
Maturitymedium 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)