Meadow fescue
Festuca Pratensis Huds
Sverdlovskaya 37
- Originator:
- FSBI "URAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE"
- Cultivation districts:
- Northern (1), Northwest (2), Central (3), Volga-Vyatka (4), Middle Volga (7), Ural (9), West Siberian (10), East Siberian (11), Far East (12)
- Yield:
- green mass — from 13.4 to 20.4 t/ha;
dry matter — from 4.5 to 6.0 t/ha
- For hay and pasture use
- Resistant to diseases and pests
Grow features
The bush is upright, erect, slightly sprawling, of medium density. Stems are up to 130 .cm high, medium coarseness. The bushing is strong. The foliage is high, up to 40% The root system is powerful; the roots lie deep in the soil. It sprouts quickly — from two days, the first leaf begins to appear on the third or fourth day. But in the first year it grows slowly. It reaches good vegetative development in the third or fourth year. It blooms in the second or fourth year of life. It bushes a month later after germination (this must be taken into account because the fescue shall be .)full-fledged (bushing) tillering to pass the winter successfully