Ladoga 277
Hybrid breeding of Scientific Production Association (SPA) Kuban Seed Production
Hybrid responsive to increasing levels of soil fertility
Advantages:
- Intensive-type hybrid
- High heterosis effect
- Excellent water-yielding capacity
- Excellent disease resistance
- Does not lodge
General information
Producing regions: Central Black Earth, Northern Caucasus
Maturation period: middle-early
Plant characteristics:
- FAO 270
- Plant height: 270 cm
- Cob attachment height: 96 cm
- Good water-yielding capacity: Yes
Cob characteristics:
- Number of rows: 16
- Number of grains in a row: 40
- 1,000 grain-weight: 305 g
Grain: up to 125 cwt/ha
Recommended hybrid density:
- Adequate moisture: 65–75 thousand/ha
- Inadequate moisture: 55–60 thousand/ha
Crop yield results, cwt/ha
For grain:
- Krasnodar Territory (North-Western part): 104.4
- Voronezh region (Western part): 112.1
- Krasnodar Territory (Central part) 100.2
- Rostov region (Western part): 62.5
- The Republic of North Ossetia–Alania (North-Western part): 80.9
- The Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (North-Eastern part): 93.1