Colomba
Immediately-early season seed potato
Basic information
- Immediately-early season potato
- High tubers uniformity
- Stable quality under various production conditions
- High stability to tuber darkening caused by impact effects
- Good-looking and smooth jacket
Sort characteristics
- Maturing rate: super-early
- Vegetation period: 60–65 days
- Tuber shape: oval
- Tuber size: large
- Jacket color: yellow
- Pulp color: yellow
- Eyeholes bedding depth: small
- Type of boiled potato: soapy/lightly mealy
- Color change degree in boiled potato: no
- Solid matter content: 16,9%
- Stability to nematode: ro 1,4,5
- Potato wart disease: stable
Dormant period: 4 - (3=short, 9=long)
- Stability to the PVYn virus: 6
- Plant blight: 4
- Tuber blight: 6
- Normal scab: 6.5
- Drought hardness: 5
Planting peculiarities
Avoid planting this potato into excessively cold ground. Apical sprouts should be wrapped around before planting. The Colomba sort is responsive to irrigation. It is sensitive to leaves blight. Mechanical impact during potato harvesting can lead to excessive humidity loss in tubers and prematue sprouting. This sort is sensitive to supplementary addition of magnesium and manganese.
Planting density
In case the potato is produced for table use the average distance between plants with the 75cm distance between stitches:
- 28/35 mm -± 25 cm distance
- 35/45 mm -± 30 cm distance
- 45/50 mm -± 36 cm distance
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