SANDRA
SANDRA shows high marketable yield, regular graded tubers with a nice red skin color even after long term storage.
VARIETY DESCRIPTION
QUALITY
- cooking type B
- no discoloration after cooking
- starch content 13-14%
- low sensitivity to mechanical damage
- internal defects and black spots
- deep red skin
YIELD
- very high marketable yield
- uniform grading
RESISTANCES
- PCN: Ro 1
- wart disease: K 1, 2, 6*, 18* (*lowly suspectible)
- Y-Virus (PVY): very high
- potato leaf roll virus (PLRV): medium
- Late blight: very high
- Tuber blight: very high
- common scab: high
TUBER
- oval to long oval tubers
- shallow eyes
- red skin
- yellow flesh
PLANT
- tall, very strong
- flower red-violet
- rapid development and foliage cover
PLANTING
- SANDRA can be produced on all types of soil
- Seed treatment against rhizoctonia is recommended
- normal planting depth and distance in the row relatively late tuberisation
FERTILIZATION
N-supply 100-120kg N is recommended.
Phosphorus and potassium according to local standard application
PLANT PROTECTION
no metribuzin sensitivity, due to a good tolerance to late blight spraying intervals,
can be less than average, haulm killing by splitting technique
STORAGE
- very good storability
- lower sensitive to Helminthosporium solani than comparable varieties