What are the four largest sunflower seed varieties?
Sunflower seeds are a kind of nut we often eat, especially during the Spring Festival. They are a particularly common food, and most people love them. Large seeds tend to be more popular, after all, they taste much better. In the following text, the editor is about to share with you the four largest sunflower seed varieties. If you want to know about them, read on!
The four largest sunflower seed varieties
1. Changling sunflower seeds
Changling sunflower seeds are a specialty of Changling County, Songyuan City, Jilin Province. Changling sunflower seeds are of particularly good quality, with their greatest strengths being their large size and white color, and they are deeply favored by consumers. Changling sunflower seeds have been granted a national geographical indication certification trademark.
2. Sandaomei
Characteristics: This variety has a growth period of about 140 days, a plant height of more than 200 cm, thick and sturdy stems, and many large, thick leaves. The stems branch, with a branching rate of 20-30%. The flower head has a tilt degree of grade 3, and the flower head diameter is 15-24 cm. At maturity, there are many empty seeds in the center of the head. The seeds are relatively large, with white shells bearing three black stripes, hence the name Sandaomei. The 1000-seed weight is 88-108 grams, the shell rate is about 50%, the oil content is low, and the yield per mu is about 75 kg.
3. Xinghuo sunflower
Characteristics: This variety is a conventional variety, with a growth period of about 130 days, a plant height of 265 cm, a head diameter of 24-29 cm, a single-head seed weight of 143.5 grams, and a 100-seed weight of 16.2 grams. It is resistant to rust***, resistant to lodging, and tolerant to saline-alkali soil. It has excellent quality, with large and plump seeds and relatively uniform growth. It has few branches, and the seeds are 2.4-3.4 cm long and 0.8-1.0 cm wide. The usual yield per mu is about 200 kg. It is suitable for cultivation in areas with irrigation conditions, and can be planted alone or intercropped. For sowing density, the large row is 2.8 chi, the small row is 1.2 chi, and the plant spacing is 1.2 chi, with 2500 plants retained per mu. It is suitable for planting in irrigated land in the western part of our region and in Gansu and other places.
4. New American edible sunflower variety---2148 (2354)
Variety source: This variety is an imported hybrid produced by the American Victory Company, represented by Inner Mongolia Wulate Seed Industry***.
Characteristics: The growth period is 108 days, about 10 days longer than that of RH3148. The plant height is about 170 cm, the stem diameter is 2.5 cm, the flower head diameter is 21 cm, and the seeds are 2.2 cm long and 0.9 cm wide. The seed color is light gray. It belongs to the large-seed type and has good marketability. Its self-pollination seed-setting rate is as high as 79%, 10% higher than that of RH3148. The average yield per mu is more than 250 kg.
Alright, that is all the content the editor wants to share with everyone. There are still many varieties of sunflower seeds, but generally when we eat them, we do not learn too much about which variety they are. Still, large seeds really do taste better. The four largest sunflower seed varieties introduced by the editor here are ones you can try buying and eating as sunflower seeds!
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