The Sound potato variety is a medium-early Dutch table variety with elongated-oval, yellow-fleshed tubers featuring dark-yellow flesh. The vegetation period ranges from 65 to 80 days, enabling harvest within relatively short timeframes. Marketable tuber mass varies from 98 to 152 grams, with up to 9-14 tubers per plant. Starch content ranges from 14.1% to 16.6%, making this variety suitable for various cooking methods including frying, boiling, and baking, classified as culinary type BC. The taste is rated as good, enhancing its consumer appeal.
The Sound variety has a relatively high yield, ranging from 217 to 412 centners per hectare, with maximum yields reaching up to 538 centners, matching leading industry standards. Tubers exhibit 98% storability, ensuring long-term storage without significant quality loss. The plant features medium height and semi-upright to spreading leaves of light green color. Tubers have small eyes, facilitating cleaning and processing.
The Sound variety demonstrates good resistance to several diseases, including potato cancer, golden potato cyst nematode, and crinkle and mosaic viruses. It also shows moderate resistance to late blight of foliage and tubers, as well as leaf curling. Standard agronomic practices are recommended for cultivation, with preferred regions being the Northwestern and Central regions. The variety was developed by C.MEIJER B.V. from the Netherlands.
