Late Maturing Hybrid
SC 719
Summary
Top late maturing, pan African, well adapted and high yielding white maize hybrid (148 -155 days to maturity)
Details
- Farmers' first choice in the irrigated and high potential environments - yields up to 21 t/Ha under good management
- Late maturing white maize hybrid (148-155 days to reach physiological maturity)
- Top performer and a global hybrid, hardy and well adapted across environments and seasons
- Semi-flint grain texture
- Good Maize Streak Virus and Grey leaf Spot tolerance
- Good cob rot tolerance.
- Average plant height of 2.4 m with average cob placement at 1.64m
- Good standability up to 55 000 plants/ha
- Excellent tip cover. Medium dry down rate of 1.8% per week.
- High shelling out % up to 80
- Farmers' first choice for silage because it has excellent standability, bulkish, leafy with a stay green character to give a silage cutting window
- Has a good chaff: grain ratio-a measure of silage quality due to high grain yielding ability
- Good for green mealies; properties – characteristic very long cobs (up to 31.5cm) with up to 900 kernels per cob
- Three yield components: high shelling out %, high row number (16-18 under good environments) and long cobs (up to 31.5cm)
- Recommended for natural regions I, II & III
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