Scherbina S. Energy-seving elements of the technology for growing of Chinese radish (lobo) under conditions of Forest-Steppe of Ukraine.

Object: process of forming of high level of Chinese radish (lobo) yield and seed quality. Aim: increase of mother plants yield and improvement of their preservation capacity, raising of the yield and seed quality of Chinese radish. Methods: laboratory, field, statistic ones. Novelty: there are revealed regularities of forming of high level of Chinese radish mother plants yield and seed, proved energy saving effect of replacement of laughing by shallow tillage; revealed dependence between average mass of a plant root and the sum of effective temperatures for the vegetative period, determined connection between the intensity of leaves after growing during storage and natural decrease of roots mass, the their taking roots and productivity of seed plants. Results: there are worked out elements of the technology (methods of basic soil preparation, term of sowing and thickness of plants stand when growing mother plants in secondary sowings, methods of their storage, thickness of planting), their use ensuresthe seed yield at the level 670 kg/ha with the reduce of cost price by 37,5% and energy expenditures in two times. Introduction extent: they are introduced at agricultural enterprises of different forms of property in Kharkiv and Sumi regions. Field of use: vegetable growing, seed growing.