Seed potatoes Challenger - Medium-late table potato variety
Сорт картофеля Челленджер 
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Price / kg: 35.00 ₴
Product Weight: 20 kg.
Total:
700.00 ₴
I want to buy potatoes from you for planting. How to do it?
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You can do this in two ways:
- Through the Internet with delivery by a transport company. To do this, you need to place an order on our website or by one of the phones:
- +38(067)551-85-36
- +38(066)08-49-749
The minimum order quantity is 20 kg per variety.Please note, that the cost of potatoes does NOT include the services of a transport company.
- The second way is self-delivery from the warehouse. To do this, you need to call one of our warehouses, agree with the manager on the time of the visit, the amount of seed required, and arrive at the warehouse at the appointed time.
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Characteristics of the Challenger potato variety
Mid-late table variety of potato Challenger from the breeding Dutch company - "HZPC". The growing season is 125-140 days. Commodity tubers can be obtained for 90-100 days. In our farm in the south in 2020, at the second planting (June-October), the Challenger showed one of the highest results - 43 t/ha.
Description and characteristics - potato variety Challenger
| Form: | oval, oblong-oval | Eyehole depth: | shallow |
| The size: | large | Peel: | rough |
| Quantity in nest: | the average | Flesh color: | light yellow, cream |
| Skin color: | yellow | Potato yield: | 250-350 (430 on the 2nd planting) c/ha |
| Quantity in a bush: | 15-17 pcs | Average tuber weight: | 90-130 g |
| Output of marketable tubers: | 90-95% | Keeping quality: | good |
Features of growing seed potatoes Challenger
The Challenger variety is an intensive and multi-tuber potato variety (up to 20 tubers from one bush). Without recharge and high-quality irrigation, this variety is very difficult to grow. There is a risk that the tubers will grow small. Potato tubers are yellow, oval and oblong-oval with a rough skin. The flesh is light yellow. The depth of the eyes is shallow.
Potatoes have an average sensitivity to metribuzin (Zenkor). As a marketable potato, it is well suited for sale fresh and peeled. The pulp is moderately sensitive to slaughtering (brusing). To increase resistance to the appearance of "bruises", we recommend applying potash fertilizers before flowering.
Challenger is characterized by a long dormant period and slow germination, followed by accelerated development. Before planting, potatoes are recommended to be treated with drugs against brown patch. Since the growing season is 110 days, we do not recommend planting it after June 15th. You can germinate a little to small sprouts, but this is not necessary. It is not necessary to plant in cold soil, it is better to wait for warming up to 10-12 degrees at the planting depth. To obtain large tubers , planting should not be very dense, approximately 35-40 cm in a row with a row spacing of 75 cm. Recommended treatment against Alternaria and preventive against late blight.
Challenger tolerates drought well. It is advisable to harvest at an air temperature above 25 degrees early in the morning or at night, while avoiding mechanical injury to the tubers. Too sandy soil is not the best for this variety.
The potatoes keep well. The optimum temperature for storage is 7-8 degrees with short-term but regular ventilation. It is recommended to carry out sorting and packaging of tubers at a temperature not lower than 10 degrees.
Description of disease resistance in Challenger potatoes
| Nematodes: |
Ro1, Ro2/3, Pa2, Pa3 |
Brown patch: | protection required |
| Black wart of potato: | stable | Late blight of tubers: | high |
| Black leg of potato: | - | Late blight of tops: | low |
| Rust spot: | - | Virus Y: | low |
| Potato scab: | high | Virus PVYn: | increased |
Culinary qualities - Challenger potato variety
Challenger is the best option for housewives who plan to cook delicious potato dishes. The variety of potatoes has an excellent taste, well suited for cooking french fries, frying, soups. The pulp is slightly floury. Challenger is a variety with a high dry matter content. Culinary type BC.
| Variety: | Moderate |
| Taste qualities: | 9/10 |
| Starch content: | 16,2% |
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