"Son" - a delicious and beautiful late-ripening potatoes. It has a good yield and unpretentiousness to care, the harvested roots are well kept, suitable for sale or culinary experiments.
Learn all the secrets of the variety of potatoes "Sonny" - photos and descriptions of the fruits and bushes of the plant, the main characteristics.
Potatoes "Sonny": description of the variety, photo
The main characteristics of the potato varieties "Sonny" are:
- tubers of medium size, weighing from 75 to 85 g;
- the shape is rounded flat;
- neat tubers aligned in weight and size;
- peel is pinkish-cream, monotone, thin, mesh;
- eyes are superficial, medium-sized, hardly noticeable, concentrated on the top of the tuber;
- the pulp on the cut is white;
- average starch content ranges from 13.4 to 14%;
- potatoes are rich in protein, fiber, amino acids.
Potato variety "Sonny" refers to the table middle-late. From the emergence of shoots to maturation of tubers passes from 120 to 140 days. Potatoes are very economical: the seed does not require frequent renewal, and for planting we need not whole tubers, but their parts with eyes.
Bushes varieties of potatoes "Sonny" as described low, compact, upright or semi-upright. The branches are moderately sprawling, the formation of green mass is average.On fertile soils, the bushes are larger.
The leaves are medium in size, simple, dark green, with slightly wavy edges. The corollas are compact, assembled from large, white, rapidly falling flowers. Berry formation is low. The root system is well developed, 15 to 40 selected potatoes are formed under each bush. The amount of non-essential stuff or defective, ugly tubers is minimal.
Sort sufficiently resistant to disease: potato cancer, common scab, golden cyst nematode. Resistance to late blight of leaves and tubers is average.
Planting care is simple. Potatoes does not need watering and hilling, it is also not necessary to remove weedsabout. Recommended several mineral supplements that positively affect the yield. Before cleaning, you need to cut off all the tops. Seed material does not degenerate, it can be collected from year to year. Damaged potatoes are well preserved and do not need culling.
Tastes good or excellent.. Late maturation allows you to accumulate a large amount of valuable nutrients and vitamins. The low content of starch does not allow the potatoes to boil soft, they do not darken when cutting, while maintaining an even shape and a beautiful white color.
Origin
"Son" - variety of national selectionwhich has not passed the official agrotechnical tests and is not registered in the State Register of the Russian Federation. However, potatoes are widely used by farmers and amateur gardeners.
Possible cultivation in different climatic zones. Tubers are resistant to weather changes, tolerate short-term cooling, heat, excess or lack of moisture.
Advantages and disadvantages
The main features of the variety include:
- excellent taste of tubers;
- high yield;
- universality of root crops;
- resistance to heat, cooling, drought;
- unpretentious care;
- resistance of tubers to mechanical damage;
- good keeping quality;
- seed material does not degenerate;
- resistance to major diseases.
Deficiencies in the variety is not noticed. To increase yields recommended to increase the nutritional value of the soil and control watering.
Features of growing
Potatoes varieties "Sonny" it is recommended to plant eyes. Tubers are pre-pickled, germinated and cut into segments with a disinfected knife.
Preferably planting square-nested way distance between the bushes about 70 cm. Deepening is moderate, from 10 to 18 cm. Humus or wood ash can be decomposed into the wells.
Potatoes better to plant in April or early Maywhen the soil is wet enough. In regions with a cold spring, later plantings are possible, but the size of the tubers in this case may decrease.
Recommended for higher yields 2-3 one-time feeding full mineral complex. Under the conditions of a middle lane, it is not necessary to water the planting, in the dry summer one-time watering is recommended.
Some gardeners are confident that hilling bushes is contraindicated, sprawling bushes do not allow weeds to grow.
If desired, the soil can be mumble grass, it will maintain a normal level of humidity and reduce the likelihood of illness.
Seed material can be collected independently, pre-marking the most promising bushes. Potatoes not prone to degenerationIt has a good immunity.
Before storing the tubers, they need to be dried thoroughly. Damaged when digging the roots do not need to reject, they are well stored.
Diseases and pests
Variety enough resistant to major diseases of the nightshade: potato cancer, golden cyst nematode, common scab, fusarium wilt, black leg.
Not susceptible to viruses, rarely suffers from bacterial infections. Due to late maturation may cause late blight of the tubers or leaves. For the prevention of seed material must be pickled, planting sprayed with copper-containing drugs. The affected tops are timely cut and burned.
Young juicy leaves attract aphids, spider mites, Colorado beetles. You can destroy pests with insecticides, planting sprayed 2-3 times with an interval of several days.
"Son" - promising variety of national selection, popular among farmers and gardeners. It is suitable for all who prefer high-quality tasty potatoes and abundant harvests. Tubers are suitable for sale, but more often they are grown for personal consumption.
