Potato Vector: characteristics and description of the variety, yield with photo

Potatoes are among the novelties of vegetable crops breeding A vector bred by Belarusian specialists. A hybrid product was obtained by crossing early-ripening and late-ripening types of vegetable plants: potato Zarevo and variety 1977-78. From his parents, the Vector received all the wonderful qualities and properties with a minimum of shortcomings. Scientists consider the variety the best for growing in areas with sod-podzolic and peat-bog soils.

Variety description

You can choose a variety for cultivation in farm fields and summer cottages by learning in detail the characteristics of a vegetable crop:

Vector refers to a mid-season type of plant, since tubers can be dug up 80-100 days after planting.
Medium-sized potato bushes with dark green leaves reach a height of 70-80 centimeters. During flowering, the field is covered with purple buds. And 20 bulb tubers are dug out of one hole.
The mass of table potato tubers is from 90 to 150 grams.
Fruits with pink skin and yellowish flesh contain up to 18 percent starch.
Suitable potatoes for cooking any dishes. It makes delicious chips.

Belarusian potato selection is rated 4.7 points out of 5 for taste.

Growing

Preparing the field for planting potatoes begins in the fall. When all the vegetables are harvested, you can dig up or plow the area. Deep plowing will prevent pest larvae and fungal spores from staying in the ground for the winter.

Potato variety Vector is unpretentious to the composition of the soil, but it grows better on loamy soil with an acidity index of 4.5-5.5. Fertilizers must be applied during the autumn plowing. Superphosphate, potassium sulfate, 12-15 grams and 10 grams of urea are taken per 1 square meter.

Tubers for planting are chosen he althy, without damage, weighing 70-80 grams. They must be germinated in advance, taken out of the basement a month before planting.

The planting material is planted according to the scheme 60x60 centimeters deep by 8-10 centimeters. You can throw a handful of humus and some wood ash into the hole.

After planting, level the field with a rake or a harrow.

Features of care

During the growing season of mid-season potato type bushes:

water as needed;
loosen the row spacing 3 times per season;
fed with a solution of chicken manure in a ratio of 1:12 or mullein - 1:5;
spud 2 times in summer.

Potato Vector tolerates drought easily, but to get more high quality tubers during hot periods, water the potato field.

The vegetable crop is harrowed before shoots appear, then when the seedlings reach a height of 10-15 centimeters. For inter-row cultivation, harrowing is used in mutually perpendicular directions.

In addition to organic fertilizers, vector potato bushes are fed with superphosphate (30 grams), ammonium nitrate (10 grams), potassium s alt (15 grams). Dilute mineral fertilizers in 10 liters of water. On humus-rich soils, wood ash can be applied to the soil, on poor, sandy soils, the whole complex of organic and mineral fertilizers is used, alternating them.

Hilling is carried out in wet weather, raking the ground 8-10 centimeters the first time, 18 - the second time.

Pros and cons

Characteristic of the potato variety Vector contains a lot of positive. The vegetable crop is grown because of:

delicious tubers used in a variety of dishes;
high yields, reaching 670 centners per hectare;
excellent marketable fruit with up to 98 percent winter retention;
resistance to major fungal and bacterial infections.

The disadvantages of the plant include the fact that the description of the variety includes a high level of starch content compared to other table varieties. When cooking, the tubers often boil soft. Late ripening of potatoes is also noted.

Pests and diseases

Potato variety Vector is resistant to many diseases of a vegetable plant, but under adverse conditions and deviation from agrotechnical cultivation standards, the bushes are affected:

late blight;
alternariosis;
common scab.

The ideal environment for the development of phytophthora is heat and humidity of 90 percent. When brown spots appear on the leaves, the plants are urgently sprayed with fungicides such as Ridomil Gold. The operation is repeated after 2 weeks.

Alternariosis is recognized by dry patches on the leaves. After some time, the foliage dies off, and the disease passes to the stems and fruits. To get rid of the infection, the crops are treated with a solution of the Profit drug.

Scub symptoms are easy to spot. The disease affects the tubers, which are covered with sores, eventually merging into a solid spot.

To prevent potato diseases, it is necessary to carefully select seed material, pickle tubers with Trichodermin. Compliance with the rules of crop rotation also plays an important role in prevention, under which potatoes should not be planted in the same place for more than 2-3 years.

Of the pests, the vegetable crop is affected by the Colorado potato beetle, the larvae of which can destroy the entire crop. Insecticide-treated tubers for planting and potato fields once a season are the steps to prevent pest attacks.

Harvest and storage of crops

Dig up Vector in September, choosing a sunny day. Tubers after collection are placed in a room for drying, poured in 1-3 layers.As soon as the potatoes dry well, he althy tubers are stored in the basement or cellar. The air temperature is controlled in the room, which should be at a level of 1-3 degrees with a humidity of 75 percent. If the tubers receive an influx of fresh air through ventilation, then until spring they will remain well, without damage and rot.

You can keep the potatoes intact if the tubers are laid on shelves or boxes in 2-3 layers, sprinkled with dry sawdust. During the winter, they control the condition of the fruits of the plant, remove rotten ones affected by diseases.