Unpretentious and productive potato "Typhoon": description of the variety, photo, characteristic

Growing potatoes in regions with unstable weather conditions requires a special approach to the selection of seed material.

One of the best varieties intended for cultivation in climate change areas, is the "Typhoon".

The variety of Polish breeding came into the view of potato growers in 2008, when it was entered in the Register of Plant Varieties of Ukraine.

Recommended for use in the southern regions of Ukraine, Russia and Moldova.

Potato Typhoon variety description and characteristics

"Typhoon" refers to the mid-table varieties.Ripening tubers comes in 65-75 days from the moment of landing. The average yield is 40-45 t / ha.

The yield of other varieties of potatoes in the table below:

The level of substandard fruit does not exceed 3%. The variety is suitable for cleaning by mechanical means (potato harvesting machines and combines). Starch content in tubers is in the range of 16-20%.

As for keeping quality and weight of tubers, then you can compare these figures in the Variety Typhoon with others in the table below:

The taste of the potato is very high. When cutting and cooking the roots do not darken.

Potatoes of this variety belong to the culinary group B (it has a medium weight). Suitable for winter storage and for industrial processing (production of chips, alcohol, starch).

Potato cultivar Typhoon resistant to heat and drought. Plants remove moisture from the deep layers of the soil and limit its evaporation from the surface of the foliage.

Potato cultivar Typhoon resistant to viral infections (Y, L and M) and the golden potato nematode. It is weakly affected by scab, ring rot, tuber rhizoctoniosis, and late blight of the leaves.

As for pests, the Colorado potato beetle is the most common potato hunter.

We offer you a series of materials on combating it using traditional methods and chemical preparations.

The appearance of the bush and root crops

The potato bush of this variety is powerful, tall, upright. The foliage is dense, has an intense green color, the flowers are large white.

Each plant gives up to 10 large (from 60 to 150 g) root crops. Tubers are oval and round-oval in shape, somewhat narrowed to the base. Covered with a smooth yellow skin.

The flesh of the tubers is juicy, dense, yellowish or creamy.

A photo

In the photo you can see the potato variety Typhoon:

Basic techniques of agricultural engineering

Potato Typhoon suitable for cultivation on different types of soil: chernozem, sandy, loamy and peaty.

Planting of potatoes begins to be carried out when the average daily air temperature reaches 15 ° C. At the same time the soil at a depth of 10-12 cm should warm up to 7 ° C. To plant this variety can be for 1.5-2 months (April and May months).

For laying in the winter, a harvest of a later ripening period is taken (from seeds sown in May). The distance between the bushes in a row should be 35 cm, between rows - 65 cm. Sowing depth - 8-10 cm. For a stable harvest it is recommended to change the area annually. The best predecessors for Typhoon are perennial grasses, winter crops, legumes, flax and lupins.

Basic care for potatoes is the timely earthing up of the bushes (during the period of active growth), removal of weeds and loosening the soil. Double fertilizing with mineral fertilizers necessary for plants that grow on poor soils.

When growing potatoes, chemicals such as fungicides, herbicides and insecticides are often used for spraying.

There are a lot of controversies about the benefits and harms of their use. Read more about this in the materials of our site.

Variety "Typhoon" allows you to grow and receive high sustainable yields potato in areas of risk farming. Resistance to diseases, good taste qualities of root crops, suitability for mechanical harvesting and processing of tubers allowed this type of potato to spread widely in the southern regions of the country.