Solen

This early cultivar has been already registered.
As a tetraploid variety, it provides green crop of high quality in pasture and field crop.
It is characterised by rapid growth in the sowing year.
It re-grows well after grazing and mowing.
It is resistant to lodging and has high feeding value.
It has good winter hardiness and high nutrition requirements.
It grows well on moist and fertile soil.

This early cultivar has been already registered.
As a tetraploid variety, it provides green crop of high quality in pasture and field crop.
It is characterised by rapid growth in the sowing year.
It re-grows well after grazing and mowing.
It is resistant to lodging and has high feeding value.
It has good winter hardiness and high nutrition requirements.
It grows well on moist and fertile soil.

	Green crop	Seed crop
Stand	Medium moist soils with good structure, fertile, warm and airy (fen soils, loesses, loamy and sandy soils)
Forecrop	Legume, rapeseed and cereals terminating early
Presowing fertilisation	P₂O₅ 80-120 kg/ha K₂O 100-160 kg/ha N 60-80 kg/ha every year	P₂O₅ 80-120 kg/ha K₂O 120-160 kg/ha N 40-60 kg/ha every year
Spring fertilisation	P₂O₅ 80-120 kg/ha K₂O 50-80 kg/ha N 80-100 kg/ha 60-80 kg/ha every post-swath	P₂O₅ 80-120 kg/ha K₂O 60-80 kg/ha N 40-60 kg/ha
Presowing crop	To be done with care
Sowing term	spring: 15th April – 5th June late summer: after 15th July autumn: 3rd decade of August – 1st decade of September
Deph	1,0 – 2,0 cm
Distance	12-15 cm	25-30 cm
Planting rate	diploids – 25 kg/ha tetraploids – 40 kg	diploids – 15 kg/ha tetraploids – 20 kg
Rendering	For soil crusting – harrowing
Protection against weeds		Chwastox Extra, Starane, Tomigan (as per IOR recommendations)
Retardant		Modus 0,2 l/ha
Harvesting: two-stage	Harvest of 1st swath – at the beginning phase of 1st phase of earing (10% earing plants), next swath every 4-5 weeks	Swath harvest – when brown inflorescence; combining; seed drying – 15%