The Cronos potato variety is known for its high yield potential and its ability to help control nematodes, making it a valuable choice for growers looking to clean their fields while maintaining profitability.
Variety Characteristics
- Category: Fresh Market Processing
- Usage: Consumption - french fries
- Maturity: Medium early
- Yield: High netto yield
- Foliage: Medium to high
- Tuber size: Big
- Tuber shape: Oval to long oval
- Number of tubers: 9-13
- Skin colour: Yellow
- Flesh colour: Light yellow
- Cooking type: AB
- Dry matter content: Medium and the sugar content is low
- Dormancy period: Long
- Nematodes: Resistant to Ro 1, 4, Pa 2-3
- Wart disease: Resistant to type 1
- Foliage blight: Moderate resistance
- Tuber blight: Moderate resistance
- Common scab: Good resistance
