Features of growing early ripening potato variety Baron

Description

Potato Baron is one of the best domestic varieties of early ripening. Fully ripened potatoes are harvested 60-70 days after germination. Young potatoes can be dug up after 45 days. It is not liquid, but the skin is thin and easy to peel.

Bushes

Potatoes of the Baron variety stand out for their height and power. Bushes of leaf type, semi-erect. Leaves are deep green and medium in size. Flower corollas are medium-sized, red-violet. The shoots appear together. The plants develop well, so the tops close quickly.

Tubers

Tubers of the Baron variety are oval-round, large. Potato size varies between 110-195 grams. The eyes are reddish and located at medium depth. The thick yellow skin provides reliable protection against damage.

The light cream flesh does not change during cooking. Tubers contain a large amount of ascorbic acid and few carotenoids. Starch content is within 14%.

Potato Baron has excellent taste, which confirms its popularity:

• moderately crumbly;
• does not darken at the end of cooking;
• Suitable for making soups, purees, French fries.

Potato variety Alena

Alena is an early ripening potato variety (Solanum tuberosum) for table use. Received by specialists from the Siberian Research Institute of Agriculture, namely the Omsk Agrarian Research Center. Three varieties were used during breeding: Sedov, Kameraz and Zarevo. In 2000, it was included in the state register of breeding achievements of the Russian Federation. Zoned in five regions of the country: Volga-Vyatka, Ural, West Siberian, East Siberian, Far Eastern. It is characterized by stable productivity, the ability to adapt to any soil and climate, resistance to drought and mechanical damage. Suitable for machine cleaning.

From the moment of full germination to harvest, 60-70 days pass. The first digging can be done on the 45th day of the growing season.

Plant of medium height, intermediate type, medium leafy. The stems are weakly branched and spreading. The leaves are large, rich green. The leaf is large and wide. The waviness of the edge of the leaf plate is very weak or completely absent. The inflorescence is multi-flowered, spreading. The corolla is medium or large in size and has a red-violet color. Flowering is abundant, but potatoes practically do not produce berries.

About 6-9 large tubers are formed on one plant. The average weight of Alena's commercial copies ranges from 86-167 grams. The tubers are oval-shaped, slightly flattened, the apex and stolon trace are depressed. The peel is smooth, red. The pulp is white in color. The eyes are medium-sized and shallow-set. The sprouts are red-violet.

According to the results of state tests, the marketable yield is 172−292 c/ha, which is 60−148 c/ha more than the Pushkinets variety. In the Omsk region, during the first digging, on the 45th day after full germination, it was possible to obtain 150 c/ha, 26 c/ha more than the established standard. There, during the second digging, on the 55th day of the growing season, 172 c/ha were collected, at the standard level. The maximum potato yield was recorded in the same area - 391 c/ha, 158 c/ha more than the standards. The marketability of tuber crops is very high - 81−97%, keeping quality is excellent - 95%.

Alena's taste is very good. The tubers have moderate boilability, are better suited for frying, especially deep-frying, baking, stuffing, preparing salads, vegetable mixtures and soups, and are also ideal for processing into chips. The pulp is not prone to darkening during heat treatment and has a pleasant consistency. The mealiness is average, the starch content is 15−17%, reducing sugars are 0.1−0.2%, vitamin C is 17−20 mg%.

This potato variety is undemanding to growing conditions, has good plasticity, and is able to adapt to any soil and climate. Moreover, it is drought-resistant and can easily tolerate heat. The plants are unpretentious in their care and do not require any special care other than the simplest agrotechnical techniques. The only caveat is that it is strongly recommended to germinate the tubers before planting in order to improve germination and shorten the growing season.

Plants are moderately resistant to various viral diseases, early dry spot, rhizoctonia, and common scab. Susceptible to golden cyst nematode, the causative agent of late blight (on tops and tubers). Alena is cancer resistant. Do not neglect timely preventive treatments against diseases, and also do not forget to maintain crop rotation on the site.

The variety is highly valued by gardeners for its reliability, stable high yield, early ripening of tubers and their excellent presentation, resistance to drought, and suitability for mechanized growing technology. A separate point should be made about very good taste, which often plays the most important role in choosing a variety for cultivation.

Disadvantages include susceptibility to such serious diseases as late blight and golden cyst nematode. Otherwise, Alena is a very good potato that will definitely surprise you with its unpretentiousness and reliability!

Advantages and disadvantages

The Baron potato variety can be grown in any climatic conditions, since it quickly acclimatizes and easily tolerates temperature changes. Gardeners note the following advantages:

1. High yield: from 11 to 23 c/ha, and if all agrotechnical standards are observed, about 37 c/ha. Up to 10-12 large potatoes are formed in one bush.
2. Commodity content up to 96%, shelf life up to 95%.
3. It gives a good harvest both in drought and in high humidity.
4. The variety is resistant to potato blight and is weakly affected by golden potato cyst nematode.
5. Tubers are practically not affected by late blight.
6. Thanks to the dense peel, you can harvest the crop using a combine and wash the potatoes before storing them.

If we talk about the disadvantages of the variety, it should be noted:

• susceptibility of tops to late blight;
• damage to plants by common scab when grown on an industrial scale.

Reviews from gardeners

Of course, it is very difficult to judge the yield and quality of grown potatoes based on one year. But after receiving the first harvest, the reviews from most gardeners about the Baron variety are positive. Having received high yields in the first year, summer residents no longer strive to find another variety and are happy to grow Baron. Early ripening potatoes "Baron" stand out among other varieties and are considered one of the best in taste among all early ripening potato varieties. The variety is unpretentious and produces high yields even in not very favorable weather conditions.

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Landing

Baron potatoes can be planted on any soil. The plant does well in elevated, well-lit areas. The best predecessors are cabbage and root vegetables. Vegetables are planted in one place for no more than two years. It is not recommended to use areas where other nightshade crops were grown.

Advice! The use of crop rotation will help get rid of diseases and pests.

Medium tubers are selected for planting. Experienced gardeners focus on the size of a chicken egg. Potatoes must be germinated and treated against pests with special preparations. Three days before planting, they are heated in the sun so that the potatoes sprout faster and produce an early harvest.

An experienced vegetable grower will tell you how to properly germinate and prepare potato tubers for planting:

Important! Tubers ready for planting should have strong shoots no more than 1 cm.

Before plowing or digging, ammonium nitrate (15-20 grams) or urea (10-15 grams) is scattered on each square meter. Organic lovers can use compost or rotted manure, wood ash. Tubers are planted a day after plowing so that the soil settles a little.

Potatoes of the Baron variety are planted at a depth of 15 cm with a step between holes of 30 cm, in row spacing of 45-50 cm for ease of processing. Early potatoes are planted in May. In some regions at the beginning, in others - towards the end of the month (climatic features are taken into account).

Features of agricultural technology

This variety is optimally adapted for any type of soil. Growth and maturation occurs better and faster during pre-germination.

Planting tubers are selected small in size. It is useful to treat the seed material with special solutions against pests. They can be warmed up in the sun 2-3 days before planting. This is done to obtain an early harvest of young potatoes. If this goal is not the primary goal of cultivation, then you can do without germination. The optimal depth of the holes is 15 cm. The distance between plants is 75 cm.

The soil can be anything, but in any case, the higher its fertility, the greater the yield of the variety will be. Before planting, organic matter in the form of compost and complex mineral salts are added to the soil. You can use superphosphate and potassium salt.

During a stormy growing season, it is important to apply nitrogenous fertilizer. This will allow the bush to grow into a strong, strong plant and form large tubers. Greater yields are achieved by applying fertilizer during the second hilling.

Many economists and agronomists recommend planting Baron potatoes, which have beneficial properties. With productive potatoes, no winter is scary. It will delight you with its early ripening and long shelf life.

Care

Caring for the Baron potato variety is practically no different from standard measures:

• weeding;
• loosening;
• hilling;
• treatment against diseases and pests;
• in case of persistent drought - watering.

Before the emergence of seedlings, the area is harrowed. This is necessary to stimulate plant growth and remove weeds. When the stems reach a height of 20-25 cm, the plantings are weeded and hilled. For better tuberization, the procedure can be repeated again.

Late blight is prevented before the first hilling of potatoes. Products such as Acrobat and Ridomil Gold work well on the Baron variety.

In areas where plantings suffer from the Colorado potato beetle, it is necessary to treat the potatoes with special preparations. As a rule, the descendants of this insect are very voracious and are capable of destroying the entire crop.

To prevent common scab, a potato field after digging can be sown with green manure: oilseed radish, mustard, phacelia. In spring, plant remains are simply plowed under. At the same time, the soil structure improves and plants get sick less.

Advice! The Baron variety is drought-resistant. But if the heat lasts for a long time, especially during the flowering period, the garden needs to be watered. It is better to use sprinkling of plantings. In this case, the moisture is distributed evenly, the water has time to be absorbed into the soil.

Top dressing

When growing Baron potatoes, fertilizing is carried out twice. The first time when preparing the soil. The soil is fed with compost, humus or superphosphate, and potassium salt.

To improve plant growth, nitrogen-containing fertilizers are applied. After all, the more powerful the tops, the greater the harvest and the larger the potatoes. Nitrogen fertilizing is applied before the second hilling.

During the formation of buds, potatoes of the Baron variety are fed with dry wood ash before rain or watering.

Diseases and pests

The description of Ural seed growers notes the high resistance of the Baron potato variety to many viral and fungal diseases. This can be clearly seen in the table:

You can understand how resistant a variety is to disease by the scores:

• strong susceptibility – 1-3 points;
• moderate susceptibility – 4-5 points;
• moderate stability – 6-7 points;
• good stability – 8-9 points.

As can be seen from the table, the Baron potato variety is resistant to fungal and viral diseases. To prevent common scab, bushes are sprayed with special means.

The main pest is the Colorado potato beetle. Before planting, the tubers are treated with Prestige. Beetle larvae are removed from potatoes by hand. Mole crickets and wireworms harm plants. Traps are used to control these pests.

Characteristics of the Barin potato variety

The Barin potato variety is characterized by an excellent, slightly sweet taste, high yield, unpretentiousness in cultivation and resistance to many crop diseases. Gardeners also noted the high keeping quality of root crops. Potatoes can easily retain all their qualities for a long time.

Productivity

According to the ripening period, Barin potatoes are classified as mid-early. From the appearance of the first shoots to the moment of digging up the entire crop, 70-80 days pass. But potatoes are ready for consumption after 50 days.

The yield declared by the originators is based on 280 to 300 kg per hundred square meters. From one bush you can get up to 1.5 kg of good potatoes, the marketability of which is up to 97%. It is worth considering that the amount of harvest will be influenced by many factors, such as soil fertility, weather conditions and the quality of planting material.

Advantages and disadvantages

According to reviews from gardeners, potatoes of the Barin variety, when grown in the Central region, fully meet all the declared characteristics. It has many positive qualities and can easily provide a sufficient amount of harvest for owners of small plots and summer cottages.

The Barin variety is suitable for cultivation on a production scale

pros

• unpretentiousness;
• high yield rates;
• attractive appearance of tubers;
• the tubers on the bush are almost the same size;
• thin and smooth peel with shallow eyes;
• excellent taste and versatility of fruit use;
• suitable for food already 50 days after the first shoots;
• good keeping quality of root crops;
• suitability for transportation.

Minuses

• zoned for the Central regions, cultivation in other areas (with colder or hotter climates) may affect the quality of the crop;
• low resistance to common scab;
• increased susceptibility to nematodes.

Harvesting

The main harvest of the Baron variety is harvested two to two and a half months after emergence. A week before digging, it is recommended to mow the potato tops so that nutrients flow to the tubers.

At home, they dig up the bushes with a pitchfork and select potatoes. Farmers can use combine harvesters. Cleaning is done in dry, sunny weather.

The harvested potatoes are left in the sun for 2-3 hours so that the soil flies off and the tubers dry. Then the vegetables are put into a dark room with good ventilation. Tubers are sorted after 10 days. Small and planting potatoes are immediately selected. It is put into different compartments of the basement for storage.