Sherman variety description

  • High yielding variety
  • Excellent taste
  • High % big tubers

Characterics

  • Skin color: Yellow
  • Tuber Shape: Round Oval
  • Flesh color: Light yellow
  • Uniformity of size: Excellent
  • Tuber size: Big

Market

  • Export: Yes
  • Table: Yes
  • Mash Potato: Yes
  • Organic: -
  • Specialties: -
  • Chips: -
  • French Fries: -

Quality

  • Cooking Type: B
  • Dry Matter: Average
  • Underwater weight: 340 gram
  • Bruising: Average
  • Damage: Good
  • Discoloring after cooking: -
  • Chips:
  • French Fries: Good
  • Skin presentation: Very smooth

Cultivation

  • Dormancy: Long
  • Fertilization N: Normal
  • Fertilization P: High
  • Fertilization K: Normal
  • Tuber Count: Average
  • Metribuzin: Not sensitive
  • Emerge: Average
  • Maturity time: Maincrop
  • Yield: Very high
  • Mechanical damage: Not Susceptible
  • Second growth: Not Susceptible
  • Internal defects: Not Susceptible

Resistances

  • Potato Cyst Nematode Rostochiensis: Resistant
  • Potato Cyst Nematode Pallida: -
  • Wart Disease: Susceptible
  • Common Scab: Resistant
  • Leaf Blight: Good
  • Tuber Blight: Very Good
  • Y-virus: Very Good