Potatoes "Giant" - promising variety, guaranteeing consistently high yield.
Tubers are large and neat, they are suitable for sale, industrial processing or personal use.
Origin
Potato variety Giant bred by Russian breeders. Originator - Institute of Potato Farming. Lorch.
Potatoes are brought in the State registry of the Russian Federation in 2013. It is zoned for the Central, Central Black Earth, Volga-Vyatka regions.
Recommended cultivation in industrial fields, in private farms and farms.
Potato "Giant": variety description
Giant - mid-season table variety. From planting to ripening crop passes from 80 to 100 days.
High yield, depending on climatic conditions and nutritional value of the soil, fluctuates from 290 to 424 centners per hectare. The maximum recorded yield - 913 centners.
Harvested potatoes are well kept keeping quality comes to 97%.
Bushes tall, upright, intermediate type.
Branches not too sprawling, moderate foliage.
Leaves large, light green, dull, closed, with slightly wavy edges.
Corolla compact, assembled from small red-purple, fast-falling flowers.
Root system well developed.
The variety is resistant to many dangerous diseases: potato cancer, rhizoctonia, common scab, banded or wrinkled mosaic, leaf curl. Average resistance to late blight of leaves and tubers, possible damage to the golden cyst nematode.
Planting care standard. Potatoes prefer a light nutrient soil based on sand and black soil. Before planting it can be fertilized with humus, another additional feeding is made during the flowering period. Requires moderate watering without stagnant water, as well as hilling with the formation of high ridges under the bushes.
Advantages and disadvantages
Among the main advantages of the potato variety "Giant":
- excellent taste of potatoes;
- large, even tubers;
- good yield;
- excellent commodity qualities of root crops;
- the harvest is stored for a long time;
- quietly tolerates fever and drought;
- seed material is not prone to degeneration;
- resistance to major diseases.
Deficiencies in the variety is not noticed. The features include the demands on the fertility of the soil. Potatoes do not like stagnant moisture in the soil, grows poorly on heavy loam.
Characteristics of the root
Tubers of potato "Giant" have the following characteristics:
- tubers are large, aligned in size, weighing from 104 to 143 g;
- oval-round shape;
- the skin is light beige, smooth, shiny, moderately thin;
- small eyes, shallow, reddish, size varies from small to medium;
- creamy cut flesh;
- the starch content is high, ranging from 15.9 to 18.9%.
Taste the quality of potatoes at a height. Tubers do not boil soft, but become tender and crumbly, do not darken during cutting. Potatoes are cooked with pure cream color puree.
Root vegetables can be stewed, baked, stuffed. It can be used for industrial purposes, sublimated puree and starch are prepared from the tubers.
A photo
The fruits of potato varieties "Giant" can be found in the photo:
Features of growing
For planting are selected even medium-sized tubers, not damaged by pests. Seeds are pickled, processed by growth stimulants. 4 weeks before planting, the tubers are laid out for germination.
Potatoes prefer light sandy soil, as well as black soil with a neutral or slightly alkaline reaction. Excessively acidic soil can be treated with lime or plaster, for each weave will need 20 kg. On heavy loam yield decreases.
To increase the yield and prevent diseases, it is recommended to plant potatoes on the fields that have kept the green manure: lupine, phacelia, oilseed radish. Land suitable for growing legumes, cabbage, and carrots will do as well.To increase nutritional value, humus, peat, and wood ash are added to the soil.
Sandy soils need to be fed with old manure, which has a great effect on yield. It is also possible to feed mineral complexes based on phosphorus and potassium.
10 days before harvesting foliar dressing is possible. Shrubs are abundantly sprayed with an aqueous solution of superphosphate.
Potatoes calmly tolerate a slight lack of moisture, but the constant drought is disastrous for him. In the conditions of hot summer it is necessary to organize drip irrigation or sprinkling. In extreme cases, the planting is watered by hand, with soil wetting 50 cm.
For the season, the bushes need to pile up at least 2 times, forming high ridges and removing weeds. It is well affected by mulching the soil with mowed grass or straw, it protects planting from pests and maintains a normal level of moisture in the soil. Mulching is especially recommended on sandy soils in regions with hot climates.
Harvesting is carried out at the end of the growing season, 3 months after planting. A week before digging, you need to cut tops from the bushes so as not to interfere with the tubers from accumulating useful substances and gaining weight.
Harvested potatoes are laid out for drying at the border, in rainy weather, the crop can be removed under a canopy. Seed potatoes are sorted and stored separately.
Diseases and pests
Variety Giant is resistant to potato cancer, leaf twisting virus, wrinkled or banded mosaic, scab, rhizoctoniosis.
Perhaps defeat the golden nematode. Resistance to late blight is average, during the period of epidemics it is recommended to spray the bushes with copper-containing preparations.
Potatoes can be affected by Colorado beetles, aphids, spider mites, wireworms.
For greater security, you must carefully prepare the soil before planting, choosing from it the remnants of plants. In the case of contamination, plantings are treated with industrial insecticides or non-toxic bio-preparations. Pre-seed dressing of tubers saves from wireworm.
In the fight against the Colorado potato beetle will help chemicals: Aktara, Corado, Regent, Commander, Prestige, Lightning, Tanrek, Apache, Taboo.
Potatoes "Giant" - young, but already popular variety. Tubers have a pleasant taste, they are well preserved, do not degenerate for a long time. Potatoes are planted on industrial fields or in private households, it is unpretentious and absolutely universal.
