How to select potatoes seeds Bashny.Net

Seed potatoes should be inspected carefully to choose the most healthy and harvest the tubers.

Clonal method

Ideal from the point of view of seeds is clonal selection. That is, the selection of seeds from the most productive of the bushes at harvest the fall harvest. It's easy to do if you had planted summer potatoes. At this time it is cleaning.

With the most productive bushes for seeds selected small and medium-sized tubers. "Shrapnel" is quite able to produce a good harvest and in storage will not take up much space.



Clean material

No matter how selected tubers for seeds, they should be clean, without any traces of disease, stains and damage wireworm. Cracks and borodachah growths should not be as it is a symptoms of many diseases.

Size of tubers for planting should be no more than chicken eggs. But there are varieties that have tubers which are too large and no change. In this case, before planting the tubers are cut into several slices.

Solid greens

After digging the seeds should zaselenie. Then they are better kept, and even mice such seed material is bypassed. That they got the green color, keep them for two weeks on a Sunny windowsill, stirring occasionally. Usually during this time seeds are becoming a good green color and become quite unfit for food – both people and rodents.

The seeds are then put into bags and stored in the basement at a temperature of +4° C. higher temperatures can lead to drying of the tubers, and seed the properties they are getting worse.

 



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Last check

Last check of the seeds is carried out immediately before sowing. Then the tubers are germinated in the light, to obtain a germ length of 0.5-1 cm In this time degenerated tubers will be perfectly visible with its threadlike sprouts. Such seeds should be selected and mercilessly thrown away.

The remaining seeds after checking it is possible to plant in the garden. Although sometimes all tubers give threadlike sprouts. This means, the seeds fell under the summer heat and degenerated. In this case, it is necessary to look for another seed, the good with threadlike sprouts will not.published

 



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