Prince

A maincrop, white fleshed processing variety with an excellent yield and suitable for the French fries industries.

  • Stable low sugar content
  • Good frying quality
  • Good storability
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Suggested fertiliser treatment
Nitrogen: standard advice.
Phosphate: standard advice.
Potassium: standard advice +25% to reduce bruising and harvest damage.

Plant spacing
35/45mm: 26cm (42,500 plants/Ha).
45/55mm: 30cm (37,000 plants/Ha).
Spacing figures for 90cm row width.

Herbicide sensitivity
Metribuzin (Sencorex) can be used.

Fungicides
Maintain a preventative blight spraying schedule until all haulm is dead.

Storage
Long dormancy. Frying quality is good after long term storage.

Plant and tuber characteristics

  • Maturity
    maincrop / 5
  • Light sprout colour
    red violet / RV
  • Flower colour
    light purple / LP
  • Number of berries
    very high / 4
  • Foliage - initial development
    quite fast / 7
  • Foliage - final development
    good / 8
  • Foliage - firmness
    quite firm / 7,5
  • Foliage - selectability
    quite easy / 7
  • Skin colour
    yellow / Y
  • Flesh colour
    white / 4,5
  • Skin finish
    quite poor / 5
  • Tuber shape
    oval long / OL
  • Regularity of tuber shape
    quite regular / 6,5
  • Tuberisation
    average / 6
  • Tuber size
    large / 8
  • Regularity of size
    regular / 7
  • Dormancy
    long / 8

Sensitivity and quality

  • Secondary growth
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Black spot (internal bruising)
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Growth cracks
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Harvest damage
    sensitive / 5
  • Metribuzin - pre-emergence
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Metribuzin - post-emergence
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Bentazon
    - / -
  • Ethylene
    5% fewer tubers / 4
  • Underwater weight
    433
  • Dry matter content
    23,3%
  • Cooking type
    floury / C
  • Discolouration after cooking
    slightly sensitive / 7,5
  • Raw discolouration
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Fries quality
    excellent / 8
  • Dry matter distribution
    good / 7
  • Crisping quality
    good / 7
  • TGA-level
    7,1
  • Carvone oil
    15% to 25% more tubers / 7
  • Dormancy
    long / 8

Resistances

  • Virus - Leaf roll
    - / -
  • Virus - Yn
    very susceptible / 4,5
  • Virus - Yntn (tuber)
    slightly to not susceptible / 8,5
  • Spraing
    slightly susceptible / 6
  • Late blight - foliage
    susceptible / 5
  • Late blight - tuber
    slightly susceptible / 6,5
  • Fusarium
    slightly susceptible / 7
  • Common scab
    very susceptible / 4,5
  • Powdery scab
    slightly susceptible / 7
  • Virus - A
    - / -
  • Virus - X
    - / -
  • Black dot
    slightly to not susceptible / 8
  • Erwinia
    - / -
  • Wart disease F1
    - / -
  • Wart disease F6
    - / -
  • Wart disease F18
    - / -
  • Golden nematode Ro 1/4
    field resistant / 8
  • Golden nematode Ro 2/3
    - / -
  • White nematode Pa 2
    - / -
  • White nematode Pa 3
    - / -

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