Description:

Early – maturing (FAO 170) Recommended for seeds and forage usage. Registered in National Registry of Selection Achievements Eligible for Usage in North-West Region, Central Region, Central Black Earth Region, Volgo-Vyatskiy Region, Middle – Volgian Region and West Siberian Region.

Plant height is 230-290 cm, well foliated. Low cone-shaped maize cob at height 70-75 cm, weight of cob is 110-140 g, length – 20-25 cm. Rodnik (Springlet) 179 SV has yellow half-dent seeds, weight of 1000 seeds approximately equal 260-290g. Number of cob seed rows – 14-16. Grain yield at trash process is 80-82%. Ear shank is in red or white color.

Cold-endurance of hybrid is above the average, drought hardness – normal. High resistance to Southern Helminthosporium and bacteriosis, normal resistance to head smut and maize cob fusariosis

On-the-farm test performed showed the following forage yield:

Agricultural Production Co-operative Rodina, the Tula Region – 522 hundred kilograms per hectare,

LLC Agrotechnologiya, Pronskyi district of the Tula Region – 529 hundred kilograms per hectare,

Scientific-Research Institute of Agriculture and Breeding, Zhodino, the Republic of Belarus – 664 hundred kilograms per hectare.

Hybrid highly responds to fertilizers. Recommended degree of density in case of seeds and forage sowing, on bogharic lands is 60 thousand of plants per hectare, on irrigated lands – 75 thousand of plants per hectare. In absence of fertilizer treatment, degree of density lows down on 5-10 thousand of plants per hectare, depending on productivity and moisture of soil.