The fighter on the garden: cabbage "Aggressor F1"

Cabbage has long become a traditional vegetable in the culinary culture of the Russian people. In each house, in the village and the city, on the festive table always have cabbage rolls and sauerkraut.

Therefore, breeders are fighting over the cultivation of new varieties of cabbage. And relatively recently, their next development was the cabbage variety Agressor.

The peculiarities of this variety, the rules of its cultivation and its care will be discussed today in our article.

We also recommend to watch a useful video on this topic.

Variety description

Cabbage "Aggressor" refers to mid-late varieties of ripening. Before the appearance of the first harvest takes about 120 days from the time of sowing into the ground.

Characteristic of the variety: the leaves are compact, medium-sized, concave in the middle, color gray-green. The edges of the leaves are wavy with a wax coating. Rosette plants raised up from the ground.

The cabbage head has a round, slightly flattened shape.. Cabbage stump is medium in length. The weight of the cut heads is relatively small - from 2 to 5 kilograms. The color of the head in the section has a light yellow tint. The leaves inside the head are thin and medium.

From one hundred square meters of land you can get about one ton of the crop.

Watch the video about the features of the Agressor variety cabbage:

History of

Variety of cabbage "Aggressor" refers to the hybrid varieties and was bred in 2003 by Dutch breeders. But, despite the fact that 15 years have passed, the variety is still in great demand among gardeners and farmers.

What is the difference from other species?

The following distinctive features of cabbage variety "Aggressor" are distinguished in comparison with other types of vegetables:

• high growth;
• powerful root system;
• all heads of about the same size;
• harmonious ripening;
• the outer stalk size does not exceed 20 cm.

Variety suitable for sale on the market. It is used to:

1. cooking fresh salads and traditional dishes;
2. salting, pickling and preservation.

Advantages and disadvantages

Among the advantages of the plant are the following:

• characterized by high resistance to most cruciferous diseases and pests;
• the variety is unpretentious to the soil and gives a good harvest even on soils with low humus content;
• characterized by high germination, which is up to 99%;
• the plant is suitable for transportation over long distances;
• perfectly preserved throughout the winter;
• tolerates high temperatures in the southern regions and spring frosts.

Compared to other varieties cabbage "Aggressor" has a stable yield of up to 800 centners per hectare. Commodity yields ranging from 430 centners to 670 centners.

During the growing season, the heads do not crack, which ensures a high yield of marketable products. He is 92 - 95%. All this combined with high taste makes this variety a leader. Most gardeners and farmers give their preference to this particular plant.

Regarding deficiencies, here you can highlight the following features:

1. sometimes the variety is affected by the keel;
2. may have a slightly bitter taste and a rigid structure of the inner leaves.

Step-by-step instructions for care and landing

In order to grow a high-quality plant and boast high yield varieties of cabbage "Aggressor", you need to follow these rules:

• Landing time. The best time for planting seedlings will be the first half of April. For planting in open ground it is better to wait until the end of April and beginning of May.
• Choosing a landing site. It is better to choose a plot where they grew tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, and even better plant cabbage next to potatoes. It has a beneficial effect on the growth of this plant. Excluded are places where cruciferous plants have recently been planted. Planting cabbage after radish, radish, turnips and turnips can not be 3 years.
• What should be the soil? Cabbage Aggressor refers to a seedling method of cultivation, and you can also sow f1 seeds directly into the soil. For planting in pots make a mixture of soil in the ratio of peat, turf land, sand 2: 4: 1.
• Landing. If a seedling method of cabbage planting has been chosen, then the seedlings need to be hardened before planting. This can be done by exposing the seedlings to the balcony or by placing in a slightly heated greenhouse. Be sure to bring the seedlings at night, otherwise it may die.
  1. In the pots, the F1 seeds are sown to a depth of 1.5 cm, sprinkled with earth and watered. The pots are placed on a well-lit window sill.
  2. After 30-40 days, seedlings can be planted in open ground. The distance between rows is better to do no more than 70 cm, and between plants up to 60 cm. Wells are made and filled with water, when the water is fully absorbed, the seedlings are carefully removed from the pot and planted in the ground.
  3. After landing, the ground is mulched.

  Board: If it was decided to sow the seeds directly into the ground, then it can be done by sowing seeds into holes or rows, with further transplanting seedlings to the main place. You can sow the seeds immediately according to the scheme 60 * 70 in rows of two seeds in each well.

  Be sure to consider the fact of night frost. Seedlings at night will need to be covered and it will be more convenient to do it if it is planted in the wells or rows of thick seed, but this will cause difficulties in terms of further transplanting to a permanent place.

• Temperature. The permissible air temperature at which the plants will develop varies from 5 to 10 degrees above zero. The optimum temperature for growth is 15-20 degrees.
• Watering. Cabbage loves moisture. On hot sunny days it is enough to water it once in 3 days, and on cloudy times a week. On one square meter will take about 1 bucket of water.
• Top dressing. Fertilizer is better to make before digging the site or when planting in the hole. Before digging, you can use humus in the wells, but it is better to make 1 teaspoon of nitrophoska, because you can burn the roots of the plant with humus.
• Hilling and loosening. From time to time you need to loosen the earth around the plants and spud them before forming the heads. Also important point is the struggle with weeds. There is already suitable classical method of struggle, by weeding weeds or the use of herbicides.
• Harvesting. Cabbage "Aggressor" refers to the late maturity, its harvest should be started when the onset of stable cold. The later you cut it, the longer it will be stored. The optimum daytime temperature should be no more than 10 degrees, and the nighttime temperature should approach zero. 1-2 degrees of frost cabbage is not terrible, but it is better not to allow the temperature to fall to 2-3 degrees of frost.

  Still need to take into account the fact that before cutting the soil was not saturated with moisture. Such cabbage will rot and poorly stored. Cut cabbage is necessary to sort, pick the spoiled, cracked.

Storage

It is better to store cabbage in rooms where the air temperature does not exceed 2 degrees. The room should be dark and ventilated. Humidity in the room at least 90%.

In addition, the commodity heads must be held for several weeks in a cool place, after which they should be re-searched and placed in a permanent place for winter storage. Cracked and non-salable cabbage can be used for pickling and pickling.

Diseases and pests

The variety is resistant to many diseases and pests, but if the plants are damaged by insects, they need to be urgently treated with special preparations. Most often, cabbage varieties "Aggressor" is affected by the keel - this is fungal growths on the roots. If this disease was seen on plants, then it is better to snatch and destroy all the specimens, after which treatment with a systemic fungicide should be carried out. For other diseases, the measures are the same.

Important: It is better to do the treatment with a sprayer with the application sticking, otherwise the solution will drain from the plants.

Prevention of various problems

To prevent insect damage, sprout seedlings with ashes and tobacco after germination.. For the prevention of disease, it is better to treat the seeds before planting with potassium permanganate solution. Before planting in open ground, the roots of seedlings can be immersed in a talker of clay and mullein.

It is required to carry out preventive treatments with fungicides during the growing season according to the schedule. Subject to all the rules, cabbage varieties "Aggressor" will delight a large number of crops.

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