BOTANICAL PROPERTIES
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Growth habit:
Strong, upright, develops rapidly with good leaf coverage.
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Flowers:
Many blue flowers with white tips.
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Tubers:
Round-oval, shallow eyes. Skin and flesh are white.
AGRONOMICAL PROPERTIES
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Growing period:
Medium-short (80 to 100 days).
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Yield:
High. Equal to Up-to-Date and BP1 in warmer areas under irrigation.
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Tuber size distribution:
Mostly medium and large with a high percentage of large and a low percentage of small
tubers under optimal cultivation conditions.
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Tuber appearance:
Regular. Tuber malformation and secondary growth seldom occur, even under
unfavourable conditions.
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Tuber dormancy:
Medium (50 to 70 days). Dormancy of progeny tubers is shortened with periods of heat
and/or water stress during growing season.
CONSUMER PROPERTIES
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Eating quality:
Good. Non-floury, firm cooking type.
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Processing quality:
Table potato with medium relative density (SG). Can be used for processing while fresh
(within 60 days of foliage die-off).
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Keeping quality:
Fairly good (better than BP1 and Up-to-Date). Quality deteriorates within 60 to 80 days
after natural foliage die-off.
DISEASES
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Late blight:
Very susceptible.
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Early blight:
Susceptible.
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Virus diseases:
Moderately susceptible to leaf roll and mosaic virus.
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Common scab:
Very susceptible.
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Fusarium dry rot:
Susceptible.
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Fusarium wilt:
Susceptible.
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Physiological disorders:
Internal brown spot and hollow heart seldom occur. If they do occur, the manifestation is
usually only mild.
Potato Cultivars: Buffelspoort
