Red Craigs Royal is an early to intermediate maturing potato variety with a semi-erect growth habit and red-violet flowers that appear rarely. It produces red-skinned, white-fleshed, large to very large oval tubers with smooth skin and shallow eyes. The variety offers high yield potential, good taste, high dry matter, and is suitable for general cooking but not ideal for crisps or fries.
Tuber Characteristics
- Skin colour: Red
- Eye colour: Red
- Flesh colour: White
- Shape: Oval
- Eye depth: Very shallow to shallow
- Skin texture: Smooth
Tubering Characteristics
- Yield potential: High
- Tubers per plant: Few to many
- Tuber size: Large to very large
- Shape uniformity: Medium to uniform
- Internal rust spot: Frequent
- External damage resistance: Susceptible
- Dormancy period: Very short to short-medium
Resistances
- Late blight (tubers & foliage): Low to medium
- Late blight (lab test): Low
- Dry rot (Fusarium coeruleum): High to very high
- Wart (Synchytrium endobioticum): Field immune (Race 1)
- Gangrene (Phoma foveata): Low
- Dry rot (Fusarium spp.): High to very high
- Common scab: Medium
- Blackleg: Medium
- Potato virus A: Very high
- Potato virus X: High to very high
- Potato virus Y: Low to medium
- Potato leaf roll virus: Low to medium