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Description
A variety with very high yields, producing round to oval shaped potatoes with a light cream coloured skin and light-yellow flesh. The variety is well suited to the fresh and processing markets.
Key facts
- Suitability: Versatile cooking uses
- Owner: T Krijthe
- Origin: Netherlands
- SA distribution: GWK Beperk
- Parentage: Bydand x Caesar
- Yield: High
Agronomic traits
Wait until after soil temperatures have reached 7ºC. An in-row spacing of 25 cm for table potatoes should
be adequate; closer spacing could be used for seed potato production.
Metribuzin sensitivity: Unknown
Bruising: Low susceptibility to mechanical damage
Cooking type
Suitable for mash, baking, roasting, microwave, salad, boiling and homemade chips.
Tuber characteristics
- Skin colour: Light cream
- Flesh colour: Light yellow
- Eyes: Shallow
- Tuber shape: Round, oval shaped
- Dry matter: Medium
- Maturity: Short to medium (80-90 days)
Disease resistance
- Black dot: Moderate resistance
- Black leg: Moderately susceptible
- Common scab: Good resistance
- Dry rot: Good resistance
- Internal defects: Low incidence of internal brown fleck and hollow heart
- Late blight – foliage: Medium resistance
- Late blight – tuber blight: Moderate
- Nematodes: Resistant to potato cyst nematode (PCN) Ro1, Ro2/3 and Ro5
- Potato leaf roll virus: Moderate resistance
- Potato wart disease: Resistant to pathotype 1
- PVY virus: Moderate resistance
- Rhizoctonia: High resistance
- Silver scurf: Resistant
For more information, visit elders.com.au/for-farmers/crops/potatoes/lanorma/ or www.potatopro.com/potato-varieties/lanorma
Disclosure: The information provided here is sourced from global and local data and general agricultural practices, which may not fully reflect South African conditions. For guidance tailored to your specific region and circumstances, please consult your local seed agronomist.