Cardyma has all the characteristics to become the new blockbuster French fries variety!
This potato is a great performer on taste, texture, dry matter content and length. Cardyma is as long as Innovator and as yellow as Fontane.
Why Cardyma
- Suitable for QSR
- Length specifications
- Wart disease resistance
- PCN resistance to Ro1,4 and Pa2
- Suitable for long term storage
Agronomic Characteristics:
- Maturity: Medium late
- Dormancy: Long
- Yield (Mature): Good
- Tuber Size: Large
- Tuber Shape: Long oval
- Number of Tubers per Plant: 9-11
- Skin Colour: Dark yellow
- Flesh Colour (After Cooking): Yellow
- Cooking Type: BC (Mealy) – suitable for mashing and frying
- Dry Matter Content / Starch: 23.1% / 17.2%
- Underwater Weight (UWW) / Specific Gravity: 429 / 1.093
- Internal Bruising Sensitivity: Quite sensitive
- Metribuzin Sensitivity: Requires caution
- Little Potato Disorder Sensitivity: Moderate
Key Highlights:
- Medium-late maturing variety with long dormancy, making it suitable for storage
- Large, long-oval tubers with dark yellow skin and yellow flesh
- Mealy texture (BC cooking type) – ideal for mashing, baking, and frying
- High dry matter content (23.1%) – good for processing
- Very high resistance to PCN (Ro1/4, Pa2), Wart Disease, and Yntn tuber necrosis
- Good resistance to tuber blight and Alternaria (early blight)
- Moderate resistance to common scab, powdery scab, and spraing
- Requires careful management for internal bruising and metribuzin sensitivity
