Growing potatoes in regions with unstable weather conditions requires a special approach to the selection of seed material.
One of the best varieties intended for cultivation in climate change areas, is "Typhoon".
The variety of Polish breeding came into the view of potato growers in 2008, when it was entered in the Register of Plant Varieties of Ukraine.
Recommended for use in the southern regions of Ukraine, Russia and Moldova.
Potato Typhoon variety description and characteristics
Grade name | Typhoon |
general characteristics | medium early Polish variety intended for cultivation in areas of high-risk farming |
Gestation period | 65-75 days |
Starch content | 16-20% |
Mass of commercial tubers | 60-150 gr |
The number of tubers in the bush | 6-10 |
Yield | 400-450 c / ha |
Consumer quality | good taste, the flesh does not darken when chopped |
Recumbency | 95% |
Skin color | yellow |
Pulp color | yellow |
Preferred growing regions | any soil and climate, including arid regions |
Disease resistance | resistant to viruses and potato nematode |
Features of growing | standard agricultural technology, resistant to heat and drought |
Originator | Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (Poland) |
"Typhoon" refers to the mid-table varieties.Ripening tubers comes in 65-75 days from the moment of landing. The average yield is 40-45 t / ha.
The yield of other varieties of potatoes in the table below:
Grade name | Yield |
Typhoon | 400-450 c / ha |
Lorch | 250-350 c / ha |
The hostess | 180-380 c / ha |
League | 210-350 c / ha |
Pretty boy | 170-280 kg / ha |
Svitanok Kiev | up to 460 c / ha |
Borovichok | 200-250 centners / ha |
Lapot | 400-500 c / ha |
American | 250-420 c / ha |
Colomba | 220-420 c / ha |
Red Fantasy | 260-380 c / ha |
The level of substandard fruit does not exceed 3%. The variety is suitable for harvesting by mechanical means (potato harvesting machines and combines). Starch content in tubers is in the range of 16-20%.
As for keeping quality and weight of tubers, then you can compare these figures in the Variety Typhoon with others in the table below:
Grade name | Tuber weight (g) | Stability (%) |
Typhoon | 60-150 | 95 |
Labella | 80-100 | 95 |
Riviera | 100-180 | 94 |
Veneta | 70-95 | 87 |
Zhukovsky early | 100-120 | 92-96 |
Lemongrass | 75-150 | 90 |
Margarita | 90-150 | 96 |
Courage | 100-150 | 91 |
Grenada | 80-100 | 97 |
The taste of the potato is very high. When cutting and cooking, roots do not darken.
Potatoes of this variety belong to the culinary group B (it has a medium variety). Suitable for winter storage and for industrial processing (production of chips, alcohol, starch).
Read more about the time and temperature of storage, about possible problems. And also about how to store potatoes in the winter, on the balcony, in the refrigerator, in boxes, peeled.
Potato cultivar Typhoon resistant to heat and drought. Plants remove moisture from the deep layers of the soil and limit its evaporation from the surface of the foliage.
Potato cultivar Typhoon resistant to viral infections (Y, L and M) and the golden potato nematode. Weakly affected by scab, ring rot, tuber rhizoctoniosis and leaf blight.
We offer you a series of materials on combating it with the help of folk methods and chemical preparations.
The appearance of the bush and root crops
The potato bush of this variety is powerful, tall, upright. The foliage is dense, has an intense green color, the flowers are large white.
Each plant gives up to 10 large (from 60 to 150 g) root crops. Tubers are oval and round-oval in shape, somewhat narrowed to the base. Covered with a smooth yellow skin.
The flesh of the tubers is juicy, dense, yellowish or creamy.
A photo
In the photo you can see the potato variety Typhoon:
Basic techniques of agricultural engineering
Potato Typhoon suitable for cultivation on different types of soil: chernozem, sandy, loamy and peaty.
Planting of potatoes begins to be carried out when the average daily air temperature reaches 15 ° C. At the same time, the soil at a depth of 10-12 cm should warm up to 7 ° С. To plant this variety can be for 1.5-2 months (April and May months).
How to grow early varieties of potatoes, read here.
For laying in the winter, take a harvest of a later ripening period (from seeds sown in May). The distance between the bushes in a row should be 35 cm, between the rows - 65 cm. Sowing depth - 8-10 cm. For a stable harvest it is recommended to change the acreage annually. The best predecessors for Typhoon are perennial grasses, winter crops, legumes, flax and lupins.
Basic care for potatoes is the timely hilling of the bushes (during the period of active growth), removal of weeds and loosening the soil. Mulching will help prevent the emergence of new weeds, and properly organized watering will increase yields.
Double fertilizing with mineral fertilizers necessary for plants that grow on poor soils.
Read more about how to feed potatoes, when and how to apply fertilizer, how to do it when planting.
There are a lot of controversies about the benefits and harms of their use. Read more about this in the materials of our site.
Variety "Typhoon" allows you to grow and receive high sustainable yields potato in areas of risk farming. Resistance to diseases, good taste qualities of root crops, suitability for mechanical harvesting and processing of tubers allowed this type of potato to spread widely in the southern regions of the country.
Despite the fact that this variety is resistant to most diseases, information about them may be useful for you. Read all about: Alternaria, fusarium, late blight and solitary blight on potatoes, verticillous wilt, cancer and scab.
There is a wide variety of ways to grow potatoes. We have prepared a lot of interesting information about Dutch technologies, how to turn potato growing into a business and in which countries these roots are most popular. You can also read about how to grow potatoes under straw, in boxes, in barrels, in bags, without hilling and weeding.
We also suggest that you familiarize yourself with potato varieties that have different ripening terms:
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