Post by Tom Wagner on Oct 31, 2014 18:53:29 GMT -8
The CalWhite works as a first early since the tubers bulk early and tend to set low providing lot of nutrients to the few tubers sizing up. It still needs to be vine killed to set the skin. The leaves are unusually large early on and even if hit by hail it will make a decent yield. It is hyper sensitive to virus Y, so saving tubers back for replanting could be disastrous after a single latent year infection.
I made a cross of CalWhite to ND2912-2R that delivered an excellent bright red that also was an early bulker that typically set five tubers or fewer per hill and had about five eyes only. It was picked up by a large grower in the Stockton Delta area for early certification. Never was able to get any clean seed of it though. I called it Eye Five since it was developed near the I-5 interstate highway. It went by a number which I can't recall now.
CalWhite can really yield if grown right. I remember Kern County, CA test plot harvests of the equivalent of 1,000 cwt per acre.
I made a cross of CalWhite to ND2912-2R that delivered an excellent bright red that also was an early bulker that typically set five tubers or fewer per hill and had about five eyes only. It was picked up by a large grower in the Stockton Delta area for early certification. Never was able to get any clean seed of it though. I called it Eye Five since it was developed near the I-5 interstate highway. It went by a number which I can't recall now.
CalWhite can really yield if grown right. I remember Kern County, CA test plot harvests of the equivalent of 1,000 cwt per acre.