Lucky fruit of national selection - potato "Sonny": description of the variety and photo

"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.

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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, focused 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 seedlings to ripening tubers passes from 120 to 140 days. Potatoes are very economical: seed does not require frequent renewal, and for planting we need not whole tubers, but their parts with eyes.

Shrubs 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. Corollas compact, collected 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. Productivity depends on the climatic zone and the nutritional value of the soil. Each bush brings up to 10 kg of selected potatoes. The earlier the tubers are planted, the greater the potential yield.

And in the table below you can see what are the yields and the percentage of marketability of tubers in other potato varieties:

Sort sufficiently resistant to disease: potato cancer, common scab, golden cyst nematode. Resistance to late blight of the leaves and tubers is average.

Planting care is simple. Potatoes does not need watering and hilling, it is also not necessary to remove weeds. Recommended several mineral dressings, positively affecting 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 stored and do not need culling.

Read more about storage periods, temperature and possible problems, about the places in which it is most expedient to do: in vegetable stores, in an apartment, in a cellar, on a balcony.

And also about how to store roots in the winter, in boxes, peeled or in the refrigerator.

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.

The amount of starch in potato tubers of other varieties:

Root vegetables are versatile, they can be cooked, fried, baked or stuffed. Cooking mashed potatoes or crispy crust fries is possible.

Read more about the properties of potatoes: the danger of solanine and useful juice, what are the benefits and harms of raw potatoes and how can sprouts help.

Origin

"Son" - variety of national selection, not passed the official agrotechnical tests and not registered in the State Register of the Russian Federation. However, potatoes are widely used by farmers and gardeners-lovers of Russia and neighboring countries.

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.

Read more about how to feed potatoes, what kind of fertilizer is the best.

And also how and when to make them and how to do it when landing.

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 squarely 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.

The peculiarity of the variety is undemanding of weeding and hilling. Read more about how potatoes are grown without weeding and hilling and how it affects the crop. And also about how to properly spud plants and whether to spud, how to do it, what is the difference between manual and with the help of a motor-block.

Some gardeners are confident that hilling bushes is contraindicated, sprawling bushes prevent weeds from growing.

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 and verticillium wilt, Alternaria, 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.

As for the attack of insect pests, the Colorado potato beetle and its larvae, wireworms, bears, potato moths, and aphids most often endanger the plantings.

In our articles you will find a lot of useful information on how to deal with them effectively:

1. Fighting the Colorado potato beetle with the help of poison and folk methods.
2. How to get rid of the wireworm in the garden.
3. What will help protect the roots from Medvedka: folk remedies and chemistry.
4. Fighting potato moths: part 1 and part 2.

Sonny "- promising variety of national selection, popular among farmers and gardeners. It is suitable for all those who prefer high-quality tasty potatoes and abundant harvests that do not require special agricultural techniques. Tubers are suitable for sale, but more often they are grown for personal consumption.

We bring to your attention a series of articles on different ways of growing potatoes: Dutch technology and the finer points of planting early varieties, as well as methods under straw, in barrels, in bags, in boxes.

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