Kern Seedtech Pvt. Ltd.
Kern 464 Peas
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Specifications
Specifications
Character
Character
Agronomy
Agronomy
Kern 464 is an improved pencil-type vegetable pea for the Rabi season, grown for three to four pickings of well-filled, tender green pods.
Crop cycle
- First picking: around day 60–65
- Total cycle: 90–110 days
- Pickings: 3–4
- Pod: expect around 9–10 seeds per pod
- Pack size: 1 kg
Sowing window
| Region | Main window | Hard deadline |
| Punjab, Haryana (post-paddy) | October – mid November | 15 November |
| Western UP plains | Mid October – mid November | 1st week December |
| Bihar / East UP | October – mid November | Late November |
| MP Malwa (Gwalior belt) | October – November | Late November |
| Rajasthan (semi-arid) | October – November | Late November |
| Himachal / J&K lower hills | February – March (spring crop) | Mid April |
The deadline is not a suggestion. Late-sown pea meets heat at flowering, and that means the crop fails outright rather than merely yielding less.
How to sow
- Seed rate: 20–25 kg per acre
- Spacing: 30 cm between rows, 10 cm between plants
- Depth: 3–4 cm — deeper gives poor germination
- Palewa: pre-sowing irrigation, especially important in post-paddy fields. Sow at vaapsa — workable moisture, not wet
- FYM: 6–8 tonnes per acre worked in at final ploughing. For pencil-pea quality this genuinely matters
- Soil pH: 6.0–7.5
- Basal: DAP 35 kg or SSP 150–175 kg, MOP 20–33 kg by soil test, urea 22 kg per acre as full basal — pea fixes its own nitrogen thereafter
Seed treatment — three layers
This seed needs treating before sowing, and all three layers are worth doing: a fungicide, a biological booster, and a Rhizobium inoculation. Most farmers skip the Rhizobium, which is a mistake — nitrogen fixation typically adds 8–10% to yield for a very small cost. Ask your dealer for the bundle.
The irrigation that decides your crop
Pre-flowering irrigation at day 25–30 — light, never flooded. Skip it and yield drops sharply. A second irrigation goes in around pod fill if the soil is dry.
Two or three irrigations across the season is the whole requirement. Pea is not paddy, and it will not tolerate waterlogging.
Picking for the best rate
- Pick early morning, before 9 AM. Sugars drop in heat and the mandi sees it as lower quality
- Pick 1 (day 60–70) is 30–40% of your yield and earns the premium price — this is the economic case for the crop
- Pick 2 (day 68–78): 30–35% of yield, quality still high
- Pick 3 (day 76–86): 20–25%, by which time the market is fuller and rates soften
- Pick 4 (day 84–95): 10–15%, often going to processors
Pods are ready when the colour shifts from dark green to slightly lighter and pods are well-filled but still tender. Pre-cool within four hours of picking — sugars turn to starch in the heat.
Two warnings worth heeding
- Do not spray heavy chemicals during flowering. It kills the pollinators, and no pollinators means no pods
- Weeds in the first 25 days cost you yield directly. Weed by hand in the day 15–20 window if you have not used a pre-emergent
Aphids appear after day 20 — spray only if you cross the threshold of about five aphids per plant, not before. Powdery mildew watch begins around day 35–40, and matters most in humid belts like East UP and Bihar.
After the season
Chop the crop residue and work it in as green manure — free nitrogen for the wheat or sugarcane that follows.
Please remember the product code KERN-464 when ordering. Day counts shift by 3–7 days with temperature, soil and sowing date, so treat them as stage markers rather than fixed dates.
Kern 464 is an improved pencil-type vegetable pea for the Rabi season, grown for three to four pickings of well-filled, tender green pods.
Crop cycle
- First picking: around day 60–65
- Total cycle: 90–110 days
- Pickings: 3–4
- Pod: expect around 9–10 seeds per pod
- Pack size: 1 kg
Sowing window
| Region | Main window | Hard deadline |
| Punjab, Haryana (post-paddy) | October – mid November | 15 November |
| Western UP plains | Mid October – mid November | 1st week December |
| Bihar / East UP | October – mid November | Late November |
| MP Malwa (Gwalior belt) | October – November | Late November |
| Rajasthan (semi-arid) | October – November | Late November |
| Himachal / J&K lower hills | February – March (spring crop) | Mid April |
The deadline is not a suggestion. Late-sown pea meets heat at flowering, and that means the crop fails outright rather than merely yielding less.
How to sow
- Seed rate: 20–25 kg per acre
- Spacing: 30 cm between rows, 10 cm between plants
- Depth: 3–4 cm — deeper gives poor germination
- Palewa: pre-sowing irrigation, especially important in post-paddy fields. Sow at vaapsa — workable moisture, not wet
- FYM: 6–8 tonnes per acre worked in at final ploughing. For pencil-pea quality this genuinely matters
- Soil pH: 6.0–7.5
- Basal: DAP 35 kg or SSP 150–175 kg, MOP 20–33 kg by soil test, urea 22 kg per acre as full basal — pea fixes its own nitrogen thereafter
Seed treatment — three layers
This seed needs treating before sowing, and all three layers are worth doing: a fungicide, a biological booster, and a Rhizobium inoculation. Most farmers skip the Rhizobium, which is a mistake — nitrogen fixation typically adds 8–10% to yield for a very small cost. Ask your dealer for the bundle.
The irrigation that decides your crop
Pre-flowering irrigation at day 25–30 — light, never flooded. Skip it and yield drops sharply. A second irrigation goes in around pod fill if the soil is dry.
Two or three irrigations across the season is the whole requirement. Pea is not paddy, and it will not tolerate waterlogging.
Picking for the best rate
- Pick early morning, before 9 AM. Sugars drop in heat and the mandi sees it as lower quality
- Pick 1 (day 60–70) is 30–40% of your yield and earns the premium price — this is the economic case for the crop
- Pick 2 (day 68–78): 30–35% of yield, quality still high
- Pick 3 (day 76–86): 20–25%, by which time the market is fuller and rates soften
- Pick 4 (day 84–95): 10–15%, often going to processors
Pods are ready when the colour shifts from dark green to slightly lighter and pods are well-filled but still tender. Pre-cool within four hours of picking — sugars turn to starch in the heat.
Two warnings worth heeding
- Do not spray heavy chemicals during flowering. It kills the pollinators, and no pollinators means no pods
- Weeds in the first 25 days cost you yield directly. Weed by hand in the day 15–20 window if you have not used a pre-emergent
Aphids appear after day 20 — spray only if you cross the threshold of about five aphids per plant, not before. Powdery mildew watch begins around day 35–40, and matters most in humid belts like East UP and Bihar.
After the season
Chop the crop residue and work it in as green manure — free nitrogen for the wheat or sugarcane that follows.
Please remember the product code KERN-464 when ordering. Day counts shift by 3–7 days with temperature, soil and sowing date, so treat them as stage markers rather than fixed dates.
