Red Norland is the standard for short-season reds in most variety trials and is its major market strength. Red Norland is a early-maturing potato. Smaller tubers are commonly sold as “baby reds” and this variety is often served boiled or in potato salads.
Plant Characteristics
- Purpose: fresh market, boiling (“new reds”), salads, also frying
- Growth Type: determinate
- Maturity: early season, 70-90 days after planting
- Dormancy: short period
- Emergence: rapid
- Vine: medium, spreading and slightly erect, and open
- Tubers: oval to round, slightly flattened, uniform; smooth, slightly reddish skin;
- Eyes: shallow to medium; moderate in number; evenly distributed
- Specific Gravity: low (1.060-1.070), good for boiling
- Sugar: medium-high
- External Defects: none; resists growth cracking, secondary growths and mis-shaped growth
- Internal Defects: none; resists hollow heart, internal necrosis and vascular discoloration
- Yields: low to medium with high proportion of US#1 grade
- Disease susceptibility: (vine) most viruses, early dying (Vert. wilt), black leg, and blights; (tuber) seed decay (dry rot) and silver scurf
- Disease tolerance: (vine) stem and stolon canker; (tuber) common scab and net necrosis
- Bruising: prone to skinning, shatter and internal brown spot (IBS)
- Herbicide Sensitivity: susceptible to metribuzin injury
