SHEPODY

Shepody (F69016) is a determinate variety whose vine is early to medium maturing and is medium-sized. Due to its good frying quality and early maturity, usually ready for harvest in August, its grown for early fry processing and fries lighter than Russet Burbank.

Characteristics

• Purpose: frying (early season); boil and bake possible
• Growth Type: determinate
• Maturity: early to medium, shorter than Kennebec
• Dormancy: short
• Vine: medium, spreading
• Leaves: large
• Flowers: numerous, large, light violent with white tips
• Eyes: shallow to medium deep; well distributed
• Tubers: oblong to long, slightly flattened; smooth, thin, lightly-netted skin (considered a long-white)
• Set: late-setting but bulk rapidly; may oversize
• Specific Gravity: low to medium; low end for frying
• Sugar: low increases in storage; good frier, lighter than Russet Burbank
• Stem End Discoloration: sugar end is common defect
• External Defects: mis-shapes and over-sizes
• Internal Defects: resistant to hollow heart
• Yields: medium; in Canada, just less than Kennebec
• Disease susceptibility: susceptible to all viruses, early and late blights, early dying and pink eye, and moderately so to common scab
• Disease tolerance: tolerant to dry rot and wilt, stem canker, and net necrosis
• Herbicide: very susceptible to metribuzin injury
• Other: tolerant to heat stress; difficult to desiccate prior to senescence