Variety Characteristics
Flowers are white and in round clusters, large orange root.
Soil and Climate
Prefers sandy loam soil with good drainage, likes full sun. Best grown in the cool season starting November.
Planting Suggestions
Prepare bed about 1 meter wide and as long as desired. Use a hoe to break the soil throughout the plot to the depth of the hoe blade. Add compost or aged manure and mix in throughout the bed. Use a stick to make furrows about 2 cm deep for seeding in the bed lengthwise. Can make 3 furrows (rows). Then carefully seed in the furrows and cover with compost or aged manure. Water to moisten the soil. At 25-30 days, thin out seedling that are too close together and fertilizer again with compost. (After, observe root formation to see if enough fertility if not may fertilize again)
Ideal planting distance: 7 cm x 30 cm between plants and rows. Likes full sun.
Care
Fertilization: 1st time while preparing the bed before seeding. 2nd time at 25-30 days. Use compost or aged manure. (observe the crop to see if enough fertility if not may fertilize again)
Weeding and loosening the soil: When needed, weed and also loosen the soil around the forming root heads.
Watering: Should water evenly in the right amount, not leaving them dry or over watering (observe the planting soil).
Pests and Diseases
No pest or disease problems observed yet.
Harvesting
Can starts harvest the carrots from 60 days after seeding
Seed Saving
At 120 days, the white flowers will start forming above. At about 200 days the seeds will start to be mature and brown in colour. They can start to be harvested gradually stalk by stalk. Seeds do not all mature at the same time. Dry for 2-3 days (of sun). When dry shake each stalk and use your hand to help clear the seeds off their pods into a sack. After this use paper to fan off dust and bits of leaf and stalk. Then clean additional using a screen tray. Keep seeds in a paper bag writng seed name and date of harvest. Put this paper bag in a plastic bag and store in the refrigerator to reduce seed respiration and keep the germination rate. Seeds can be keep for 2 years or more.
