Spring protein pea
TORPEDO
Early maturity and stiffness
Benefits:
- High stiffness
- Even and early maturity
- Early and good soil coverage until harvest
- High pods for ease of combine
- Yellow grains - suitable for human consumption
Variety characteristics:
(Officially confirmed or respectively in line with Bundessortenamt)
| Grain yield: | 7 |
| Protein content: | 7 |
| Protein yield: | 6 |
| Start flowering: | 4 |
| Plant height: | 2 |
| Stiffness: | 7 |
| Maturity: | 3 |
Usage:
- Grain use
- Nitrogen fixation
- Suitable for human and animal nutrition
Cultivation recommendations:
| Recommended sowing rate | early: 65 - 75 grains/m²; middle: 70 - 80 grains/m²; late: 75 - 90 grains/m² |
| Sowing depth | 4 - 8 cm, the deeper the better the water supply |
| Sowing period | March, good soil condition is required |
| Fertilization |
Liming: The soil should have a middle to high pH-level Fertilization: 40-60 kg/ha P2O5, 100-120 kg/ha K2O, 20-40 kg/ha MgO Mirconutrients: usually not necessary, 2 kg/ha manganese if needed |
| Crop protection | Apply a suitable herbizide against grasses; Insecticide application against leaf beetle and aphids; Sow only ascochyta-free seed |
| Sowing method | Drill seed in a dry, permeable seedbed with good crumb structure |
| Harvest | At 14 - 16% moisture |
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