Sweet sorghum
Stepovyi
State registryYield 8.5 t/ha
A synthetic variety, early-maturing and drought-resistant, distinguished by high yield potential; Kaffir sorghum.
Characteristics
General characteristics
- Botanical variety
- Sorghum bicolor L.
- Growing zone
- Steppe
- Growing period
- 105 – 110 days
- Plant height
- 100 – 105 cm
- Average panicle length
- 10 – 15 cm
- Average thousand-seed mass
- 25 – 28 g
- Recommended sowing dates
- optimal
- Potential yield
- 8.5 t/ha
- Use
- зерно
- Recommended density at harvest
- Steppe 80 – 100 k/ha, Forest-Steppe 100 – 120 k/ha
- Fat content
- 3.0 – 3.2 %
- Protein content
- 13.0 – 13.2 %
- Starch content
- 70 – 72 %
Agronomic traits
Drought resistanceLodging resistanceShattering resistanceSalt toleranceCold resistanceHeat resistance
Disease resistance
Loose smutCovered smutStem rotsAphidsBacteriosis