Seed potato «Innovator»

Innovator

Middle-early seed potato sort.

Basic information about this potato sort

• High percentage of 50mm tubers
  
• Stable to nematode (pallida)
  
• Perfectly suits for cooking of fries.
  

Characteristics of the Innovator potato sort

• Maturing rate: middle-early
  
• 
  Vegetation period: 75–85 days
• 
  Tuber shape: elongated-ova
• Tuber size: large
  
• Jacket color: chestnut
  
• Pulp color: light-yellow
  
• Eyeholes bedding depth: small
  
• Type of boiled potato: lightly mealy
  
• Color change degree in boiled potato: insignificant
  
• Storability: good
  
• Solid matter content: 21.3%
  
• Stability to nematode: Pa 2,3
  
• Potato wart disease: stable
  
• Dormant period: 6 (3=short, 9=long)
  
• Stability to the PVYn virus: 5.5
  
• Plant blight: 7
  
• Tuber blight: 5.5
  
• Normal scab: 6.5
  
• Drought hardness: 6
  

Planting peculiarities:

As the innovator sort is sensitive to the rhizoctonia disease it is recommended to treat the tubers with a chemical agent. Don’t harvest the potato until a solid jacket is formed. In order to avoid tuber greening it is necessary to plant the potato deeper in relation to standard planting depth. Good stitching is necessary. The seed potato is sensitive to metribuzin.

Planting density

The distance between plants with the 75cm distance between stitches:

• 28/35 mm -± 25 cm distance
  
• 35/50 mm -± 32 cm distance
  
• 50/55 mm -± 40 cm distance