Colored potatoes. Variety and growing difficulties.

Dull winter evening, when ordinary people are bored and watching TV, and users FORUMHOUSE wondered what would such pozateylivee to plant next spring, it's time to remember the potatoes, "color not only outside, but also inside. "

StoryBreeding in Russia

Russian breeders have started to grow right up potatoes with colored flesh as recently as 2007. But this culture - not a novelty in our gardens. Before the revolution, to a certain company breeders Grachev could write out the potatoes with red and blue pulp.

Soviet breeders do not engage in colored potatoes. Before them there were other problems, it was not up to mischief - to feed all those who need to fulfill Bringing Moscow Food Program. Tightly engaged with the colored flesh potatoes scientists began again a few years ago, and now in Russia on this task has about 10 breeding groups.

Alex Med (User FORUMHOUSE):

In the near future each breeding group will be 1-3 grades with these characteristics, and the market will be filled.

Potatoes with colored flesh and draws fans.

Horsemann (User FORUMHOUSE):

The existence of colored potatoes I had known for a long time, but then pulled with great force.

Growers not only attracts an unusual coloring roots, even though blue or red mashed potato fries always makes a strong impression on the guests. Russian Research Institute of potato farming began to work closely on the breeding of colored varieties of potatoes, suitable for our climate, when it became aware of the beneficial properties of carotenoids, contained in this culture. Colored potato plant contains glycosides, are also anti-oxidants - these are substances that color the flesh of blueberries, cherries, peel eggplant and slow down aging the body... But the main thing - unlike regular potatoes, potatoes with colored flesh is not forbidden for diabetics - it can be eaten in baked form, and it does not affect performance Sahara.

Colored potato varieties: proven and new

Colored potato is particularly popular in the United States and Germany.

Common American varieties:

• All blue,
• All red,
• Red thumb,
• Adirondack blue,
• Adirondack red,
• Purple peruvian,
• Purple majesty.

Common European varieties:

• Blaue Schweden,
• Blue Salad Potato,
• Hermanns Blaue,
• Highland Burgundy Red,
• Shetland Black,
• Vitelotte.

The most delicious variety Vitelotte, by the way, it is the high content of antioxidants. But this sort of colored potatoes "ugly spindly" tubers that repels many.

In our conditions, to obtain good yields of US and, with few exceptions, European potato varieties with colored flesh fails, all the "take down viruses and late blight." The fact that, according to experts FORUMHOUSE, foreign breeders do not work to improve the resistance of plants to diseases and pests.

Alex Med (User FORUMHOUSE):

In the world of this kind ofpotatoes farmed out to organic farmers, and they conjure for the protection of a Bordeaux mixture.

The most popular variety of the Russian breeding can be called Purple, known for high content of antioxidants and flovanoidov - just it is possible to eat for diabetics. The variety is not early, but the content of starch in it does not exceed 12-13%.

This potato - oval tubers, weighing on average 70 grams, bright purple color of the skin and pulp. It is resistant to cancer, phytophthora sredneustoychiv to, susceptible to potato cyst nematode. Flavor and keeping quality characterized by breeders as excellent.

Yields depend on growing conditions and up to 250 kilograms per hundred.

People who complain about the productivity of purple, breeders recommend "dismantle landing": where, when, and it was carried out under any circumstances, What was the temperature of the air and the soil, which was the soil and row spacing between plants if fertilizer were used, including, organic.

Unlike some other brands in our selection, Purple does not lose color in the pulp cooking time, especially if you cook it in the skin.

Grade Lilac - Purple is the same, but the Siren - is the first Russian potatoes, which appeared on the market back in 2009. Purple - final appearance Lilac registered in Gosreesre.

Other well-known varieties of Russian breeding:

• Black Prince - large, dark purple, with a burgundy tint.
• Meteor - Early, high yielding variety.
• Blue Danube - Strictly speaking, this is a Hungarian variety (Blue Danube). Blossoms bright blue flowers. Before planting recommended soak in a solution of boric acid (2 grams per bucket from pharmacy 17%), because it is this sort of "love" bacteria causing fungal diseases.
• Ermak Ermak and improved - clones Bresee, Early Rose, the old American and perhaps the most well-known varieties.

Alex Med (User FORUMHOUSE):

There fitoftoroustoychivye color, there is resistance to viruses. But still damp such material, the speed of supply determines demand.

With this in mind, you should not neglect health improvement: process the tubers before planting to help the sprouts come out strong and healthy. There are drugs that protect against wireworms, Colorado potato beetle, fungal diseases. This is not something from which will come in delight supporters of organic farming, but it «greener than under the net for bug hunt. "

Features of cultivation

Given the "dampness" of the material, it can be said that the agricultural techniques of colored potato is no different from the farming practices are well known to us, we can say the native light. like light potato, Colored watered 3-4 times (at the usual summer) and are twice as likely - in the dry. It is important to not become abundant watering in excess: it can reduce the keeping quality root crops, especially potato beds shaded garden.

When dealing with small korneklubnyami, there is a temptation to save the earth, but it is wrong.

Unskilful (User FORUMHOUSE):

Close planting, in a row of 20 cm, is a normal phenomenon for planting potatoes for seed or planting seedlings from seeds, also for seed. Commodity (food) potato plant need 30 cm and 70 cm between rows, can be paired rows 30h40h30 vrazbezhku.

There are many ways of planting and processing of tubers - try and you will find for themselves the best.

Yield and tuber size to a large extent dependent on the land, but the size rarely matters - most importantly, that less processed potatoes chemistry.

There is an old method, which allows you to make more efficient potato variety. On FORUMHOUSE about him says breeder Alex Med. According to him, in Russian villages are always changing the seed, and it is desirable that the one with whom me and lived somewhere far away. This method is called the "effect of the first year" and is still used in modern experiments scientists.

The fact is that in the first year on the site the potatoes are almost always gives better yield than in subsequent years. This occurs for several reasons.

What is called the "effect of the first year"

•  other food;
• another structure of the soil,
• other infection diseases and pests.

Good potato harvests are the wave of the chain: a neighbor appeared good seed of the new variety, you they took the next year, so the neighbor was a good harvest this year, you - in the next, and so Further. Therefore, the value is determined by the variety, including the fact that it shows the second and subsequent years of cultivation.

This method can be used, alternating potatoes landing site, especially if you have a large site with different types of soil.

Alex Med (User FORUMHOUSE):

I grew potatoes on clay, was bad, but when you transfer it to a well-assimilated Sands gave during the year a phenomenal harvest. I did so 6 years exploited, but on clay he continued to be in any way (as opposed to other varieties).

seed propagation

About his experience of color reproduction potato seeds tells the user FORUMHOUSE Unskilful.

Before planting the seeds of the week warm up the battery, then soaked for a week.

Preparing the ground (the ground may take for tomatoes and mixed with vermiculite and agroperlitom in the proportion 1: 1: 1). Seeds are decomposed and sprinkled on top of 0.5 cm.

Seedlings appear within a week, they dive on the ninth day.

Due to the lack of light shoots will rapidly be drawn. This problem is solved by the second pick in the cassette is more. In early May, you will be burly, who in the middle of the month can be planted in the garden.

it is not necessary to feed the seedlings. The lack of light can be eliminated by highlighting.

Color potato less resistant to low temperatures. But we will show you what kind of results achieved our portal users who live far to the south.

Here colored potatoes, with blue and red pulp grown our customer portal Andrey 3812 from Omsk:

• Red - Red grade Al (Potato Al Red).
• Purple - grade Ol Blue (Potato All Blue).

Mahonia tasting potato with a color painting of flesh that grows in your garden.

Purple Majesty - tasty, crumbly potatoes.
Of red delicious rest was polurassypchataya Cranberry Red.
Rosemarie - frying nerassypchataya. No bitter taste in any class.

And this - the potatoes from the steamer, puree and salad at Mussi.

Mussya (User FORUMHOUSE):

Potatoes prepared 35 min. Color after cooking virtually retained.

Check out the video, which tells about farming practices and varieties of colored potatoesAnd a video where shows how to grow potatoes from seed. Read our article on popular method of growing potatoes in straw and join the discussion colored potatoeson FORUMHOUSE.

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