The cultivated plant is the sunflower.

It”s hard to imagine today that the sunflower is a relatively new agricultural crop. The Spanish brought sunflowers to Europe from Peru and Mexico approximately 200 years ago, giving them the name “Peruvian chrysanthemum.” At first, the sunflower was an inhabitant of gardens and flower beds, used as an ornamental plant. Later, it was cultivated for its seeds, eaten as a delicacy, and was used by the public exclusively for popping. Seeds of this agricultural crop only arrived in Tsarist Russia at the end of the eighteenth century. Sunflowers require little care and are a very necessary crop in a garden plot or flower bed.

Crop characteristics

The plant has a deep and finely branched root system capable of extracting water from the deepest soil layers—more than two meters. This quality of root system enables plants to extremely effectively extract a variety of substances from the soil, even absorbing nutrients unavailable to other crops. Therefore, it exhibits excellent growth even during the dry season, especially in soils with groundwater. The introduction of the latest modern sunflower hybrids into production allows for significant yield increases, provided proper cultivation techniques are met. However, achieving acceptable hybrid potential is impossible without resistance to adverse weather conditions and diseases. By purchasing the high-yielding, intensive hybrid LG 5555 CLP, you can be assured of:

• Its adaptation to arid growing conditions;
• Tolerance to new strains of downy mildew;
• Resistance to the herbicide Euro-Lightning Plus and broomrape A-G strains.

You can learn more about its characteristics by following the link https://lgseeds. ru/products/tournesol/hybrids/38/, where you can also purchase this crop. Remember that sunflowers are “flowers of the sun.” Therefore, only in optimally illuminated areas will plants develop brightly colored, large leaves and inflorescences. Cloudy weather and shade slow their development and growth. This short-day plant has absolutely all the characteristic biological requirements for this group of crops. The best soils for sunflowers are chernozems (loamy and sandy loam), alluvial soils, and chestnut soils of rivers flooded by flooding, provided the water is drained early.