A variety of carrot varieties sets gardeners with a choice: which one to plant, so that the crop is maximum, and the view is beautiful, and the taste is excellent, and even have time to eat sweet vegetables in the summer?
All these criteria are met by Abaco carrots, an early ripe bright orange hybrid with excellent taste.
In this article you will learn about how this hybrid differs from other varieties of carrots, how to grow and store it properly.
Detailed description and description
- Appearance. The plant has dark green finely dissected leaves, collected in a semi-sprawling rosette. Their length is from 14 to 16 cm, diameter is from 4 to 5 cm. The core of the roots is thin, dark orange in color. The same color has the bark.
- What sort is it? Carrots belong to the sort of Chantenay (the shape resembles a short wide cone with a blunt tip).
- Amount of fructose and beta carotene. In the fruits of the variety Abaco F1 there is a lot of carotene - its content reaches 18 g per 100 g of raw carrots and depends on the growing conditions. Abaco - sweet variety, sugar in root crops 5-8%.
- Sowing time. Abaco is an early variety, its seeds are planted from mid-April to mid-May.
- Seed germination. Gardeners note the excellent germination of seed: if the planting was carried out correctly, 95% of the seeds will turn.
- Flavor characteristics. The taste of the fruits of the Abaco F1 variety is rated as good and excellent.
- The average weight of a root. The average weight of one carrot is from 100 to 200 g.
- What is the yield of 1 ha? Productivity can be more than 1100 c / ha.
- Assignment grade and keeping quality. According to the State Register of Breeding Achievements of the Russian Federation, the variety is universal. Carrots can be used:
- for food;
- in salads;
- in the blanks;
- for freezing.
Data on the duration of storage of carrots Abaco F1 contradictory. Reviews of gardeners show that carrots are not stored for a long time. And the producers (for example, the agricultural company Amur Summer Resident), argue that this is a great variety for winter storage.
- Growing regions. Abaco carrots are grown in different regions of our country:
- Northwest;
- Volgo-Vyatka;
- Middle Volga;
- Central;
- Lower Volga;
- North Caucasus;
- East Siberian;
- West Siberian.
- Where is it recommended to grow? It is grown without shelter, it is recommended only to cover the planting with spunbond immediately after sowing and before the emergence of shoots - this will accelerate the germination of seeds.
- Resistance to diseases and pests (including cracking). The variety Abaco F1 is distinguished by its resistance to diseases characteristic of culture, in particular, Alternaria.
Carrots are also not prone to flowering (flowering in the first year of life, which greatly impairs fruiting). Root crops do not crack, even if they are late in harvesting.
- Ripening. Abaco - an early ripe grade: root crops ripen in 90-95 days after germination of seeds.
- What kind of soil prefers? The Abaco F1 hybrid grows well on heavy (clay or loamy, with poor air and water permeability) soils.
- Frost resistance. Cold resistance (the ability to tolerate low temperatures well) in Abaco carrots is not bad - it was recommended for the North-West region and Siberia for good reason.
- Breeding history. Abaco Hybrid was created by the Dutch branch of the American company Monsanto Company - MONSANTO HOLLAND B. V. After successfully passing the variety trials, the Abaco carrots were included in the State Register of Russian Breeding Achievements in 2009.
Difference of a hybrid from other grades
The main differences:
- pronounced dark orange color;
- the ability to successfully bear fruit on heavy soils.
Advantages and disadvantages
Abaco hybrid has many advantages:
- early ripeness;
- frost resistance;
- great taste;
- high yield;
- resistance to Alternaria;
- lack of flowering;
- universality of use;
- excellent seed germination;
- ability to grow on clay and loamy soils.
The disadvantages include:
- poor keeping quality;
- high seed value.
Features of growing
Agricultural technology of this variety is not too different from the traditional.
Choosing a place
Carrots will grow well after cabbage, greens, cucumbers, tomatoes. Nearby it is necessary to plant onions as a preventive measure of damage to the landings of a carrot fly.
Timing
Seeds can be planted in the ground from mid-April to mid-May (depending on the region of cultivation). The optimum land temperature for planting is 5-8 ° C.
Training
It is necessary to choose a well-lit area under the bed, acidic soils need to be proizvestkovat (for example, dolomite flour). In autumn, when digging, you need to add a half-bucket of compost or humus to the soil, one and a half cups of ash.
Adding sand or peat is not relevant for this variety of carrots, because it will give a good harvest on heavy soil.
Landing procedure
- With a stick or a handle of a spade, make grooves in the garden at a distance of 20 cm.
- Well shed the ground.
- Put dry seeds into the grooves to a depth of 1.5-2 cm.
- Sprinkle the seeds with fertile soil or peat.
- Cover (if necessary) landing spunbond.
Care
Further care is weeding, thinning and watering the crop. Carrots thinned after emergence. After the procedure, seedlings should remain according to the scheme of 20 × 3 cm. Then they thin out again in the stage of beam ripeness, observing the scheme 20 × 8 cm.
Water planting is moderate (the variety does not tolerate excessive moisture), in the evening, heated for the day in the sun with water. The frequency of watering depends on the weather, usually once a week or more. 2 weeks before harvesting, watering is stopped. Manufacturers recommend several times per season spud planting carrots Abaco.
Harvesting and storage
Start collecting carrots Abaco F1 can be in the last decade of July. However, the main cleaning is in September. Since the variety is early ripe, it is better to use it for food and to recycle as much as possible. If you still want to keep some of the harvest fresh, you can do so:
- Wash carrots well, you can use a special brush for vegetables.
- Trim the tail and the whole tops, capturing part of the root.
- Fold the carrots in a plastic bag, carefully tying it.
- Put in the fridge in the vegetable compartment. In it, the Abaco carrot can be stored for up to a month.
In the cellar in the sandboxes, the Abaco F1 carrots can also be stored in winter, it is only important to store them dry and maintain the required temperature - from 0 to 5 ° C.
Diseases and pests
Prevention:
- To protect against insects soil and tops every 2 weeks:
- sprayed with soap and soda solution;
- dusting tobacco dust;
- scatter ash between the rows.
- To prevent powdery mildew planting is sprayed with a solution of whey (1 part to 2-3 parts of water).
- Sometimes even an unpretentious variety like the Abaco can have problems. This carrot is prone to greening the head of the root. To prevent this, it is necessary to repeatedly spud the plants.
- Sometimes, despite the resistance to cracking, the fruits of Abaco carrots can be deformed due to heavy irrigation during hot and dry weather.
To prevent this, it is important to water the roots at the rate of - 20 liters per 1 m2 - once a week.
- Dark orange.
- Stupid.
- Short.
- Orange.
- Narrowly long
- The core is red.
- The bark is orange.
- 100-200.
- 14-16.
- 120-200.
- 18-20.
- 80-180.
- 20.
Various growing problems and solutions
Similar varieties
There are other orange early varieties of carrots of similar weight and size, with Abaco far ahead of their relatives in terms of yield.
| Specifications | Abaco F1 | Bangor F1 | Maestro F1 |
| Color and shape of root crops | |||
| Weight, g and size, cm | |||
| Taste | Good and great | Good | Good and great |
| Ripening | Early | Early | Medium early |
| Productivity, kg / ha | More than 1100 | More than 340 | About 880 |
| Storage | For fresh use, processing and winter storage. | For long term storage. | For use fresh, processing and winter storage, also for growing on beam products. |
The early ripe dark orange hybrid of carrots of Abako will please gardeners with sweet taste, unpretentiousness in leaving and an excellent harvest. Growing it is easy, it is important only to comply with the features of agricultural technology described in the article.
