Semyon Payzy

Payza — the root system mochkovaty, well developed, gets into depth to 1,5 m. The stalk is upright, rounded flat, branching, well oblistvenny, from 50 to 200 cm high. Leaves linearly - lantsetnye, hairless, at the edges ostroshershavy. An inflorescence — various form a whisk with a trihedral core from 10 to 50 cm long. Cones are small, biflorate, on short legs, green or with antotsiany which after maturing grow brown. A fruit — a small zernovka of a spherical or oval shape of various coloring (from white to black). In biology of growth and development of a payz it is close to prosovidny cultures. In the first half of vegetation it grows slowly. The Kustistost at it makes from 4 to 20 productive stalks depending on fertility of the soil and humidity. In the presence of moisture and heat this culture actively branches, from bosoms of leaves there are new stalks, is frequent with productive whisks. In a phase of a full vymyotyvaniye and at the beginning of blossoming it notes the maximum oblistvennost. The vegetative period from crops to a vymyotyvaniye makes 75 - 80 days and before maturing of seeds of 110 - 125 days. Payza treats thermophilic plants. Its seeds sprout at a temperature of soil of + 10 - 12 °C. Young shoots perish at insignificant frosts. Optimum temperature for growth and development makes from + 18 to + 25 °C. Unlike other prosovidny cultures of a payz is hygrophilous therefore its cultivation is possible in regions with the annual sum of rainfall not less than 500 mm or at irrigation.

Green material and hay of a payza – an excellent highly nourishing forage for all types of the cattle, feed with grain a bird, from it prepare the concentrated forages, use in production of beer.