Bohun

The highest yielding variety in the early maturity potato group. Almost the entire yield is a trade fraction. Attractive round and regular tubers with an excellent taste.

Variety characteristic:

Bohun is a tall to very tall plant with an upright habit. Its lower leaves are distinguished by a particularly wide leaf blade. Bohun should be involved into usual spraying program for protective control of late blight. The tuber yield is set at medium depth in the ridge. The variety produces a large number of tubers that are uniform in size and have an attractive appearance. Almost the entire yield is a trade fraction. The tubers are unusually round and regular, with an excellent taste, the eyes are quite shallow and the skin is smooth and yellow. This variety convinces with a very good suitability for long term storage. It gains flavor with storage. It maintains its high food quality until late spring.

Plant and tuber:

Flesh colour: light yellow
Skin colour: yellow
Tuber shape: round oval
Eye depth: 6,8 – shallow
Foliage development: very rapid, uniform emergence
Storage ability: 7,0 – good
Yield: 56,9 t/ha
Dormancy period: long
Length of the vegetation period: 95 days

Consumption quality:

Cooking type: B – slightly mealy (starch content 12,4%)
Taste: 7,1 – very good
Especially recommended for: potato purée, potato dumplings, soup, potato steamed and boiled potatoes, potato casserole

Resistances:

PCN: Ro1 – resistant
Synchytrium endobioticum: D1 – resistant
Common scab: 7,0 – high
Mechanical damage: 6,0 – medium/high
Foliage blight: 3,0 – medium
Tuber blight: 4,0 – medium
Potato blight: 3,0 – medium
Potato virus Y (PVY): 3,0 – medium
Metribuzin sensitivity: increased sensitivity

Site requirements:

Bohun has middle demands to soil quality and fertilization. Soils in good agricultural conditions and hummus-rich soils are advantageous for ensuring good tuber quality.

Wybierz	Longterm Storage, Packing, Table varieties, Traditional
Wybierz	Early
Wybierz	B (slightly mealy)
Wybierz	Light yellow
Wybierz	Yellow
Soil demand	Middle
Shape tubers	Round

Wybierz

Longterm Storage, Packing, Table varieties, Traditional