«Canadian» - Organic Lentil Seeds

An annual herbaceous plant in the legume family. Stem height 20-80 cm, prone to lodging or erect, blackish, tetrahedral, pubescent, branched. Lentil leaves are complex, with 2-8 pairs of leaflets, paranoid, which end with a branched tendril, very rarely its anlage. The root system is branched.

Lentils are a moisture-consuming and cold-resistant plant. The growing season lasts from 70 to 120 days. The best soils for growing lentils are chernozems that do not tolerate saline, acidic and heavy soils. The plant is self-pollinated. Use lentils as a feed and food crop. The grain contains - 35% protein, 2.6% oil, 61% starch, it produces cereals, flour, etc.

Benefits:

    has high drought resistance and heat resistance + 60 ° C;
    It is characterized by resistance to abiotic stress - it tolerates spring frost in the seedling stage, can withstand temperature drops to -10 ° C, this makes it possible to sow lentils at the earliest possible date;
    has a stable immunity to aschitosis;
    resistant to lodging due to a strong, powerful stem;
    belongs to the type - red lentils;
    has a high yield of cereals on professional grits up to 92%, football 85%;
    the yield of Canadian lentils, varieties MAXIM is up to 30 cent., from 1 - ha;
    germination - 98%, germination energy - 96%;
    varietal purity - 99.99%, humidity - 12%.


High resistance to herbicides, which is a huge advantage for lentils, since it weakly competes with weeds, and there are no insurance herbicides that could be applied painlessly for ordinary lentils. Therefore, weeds are the main factor reducing the yield of lentils.