Organic Dates Cultivation In order to Fruit and Tropical Dates in Indonesia
Raising date palms organically? fruitful if the dates are planted in Indonesia? the answer turned out to be ... at this time many observers of agriculture that has succeeded in powered palm with fruit no less sweet than the country of origin, call it CV. blessed with a long history of cultivation of palm trees.
Having a palm tree with a dense fruit may only be a dream for Indonesian farmers, but the dream has been manifested especially the peasant friends in the west Java bogor area, well how actually the cultivation of palm trees to be fruitful with the following little share:
- The main requirement for the palm tree to grow well and bear fruit, try the intensity of 100% sun meaning from morning to afternoon sunlight in without obstacles ..
- Choosing the right seeds and seeds, if you are less experienced in choosing seeds you can order the seeds in the breeder seeds, but we can also make seeds from quality seeds, to get the seed you can buy dates in date stores that have good quality and choose dates from the turkey area, take the seeds and do the seed threatman, by soaking the seeds in hot water (70-80 degrees Celsius) for about 15 minutes, then lift and soak into a stimulant solution for 30 minutes, just put in the nursery,
- Persemain can use a conventional seedbed or better use polybag nursery to facilitate transfer to large pots later
- Prepare planting media consisting of 40% soil, husk / humus / 30% ash husk, organic fertilizer bokashi 30%
- Mix the media planted flat and insert into a large pot of at least 1 meter diameter, after the date palm tree seeds as high as 20-30 cm.
- Perform fertilization regularly by using liquid fertilizer in accordance with its development period, for the vegetative period use vegetative liquid fertilizer as well as at the conception.
When the fertilization stage is over, proceed to the fertilization stage. After the date palm flowering, just look at the sex. Date palm trees and female date palms. Male flowers tend to be white, petals are white, and small, while the sex can be seen with features such as coconut flowers or pentols. Female date palm trees should be fertilized by male seedlings, in the normal way, ie cutting the skin of a date palm tree, just by cutting off the end of the skin of the skin. Then powdered into female flowers, by taking male flowers. Do not forget, please tuck between the female flowers while tied up for one to two days.
The last stage, the selection of fruit. When the date palm begins to bear fruit, it's best to place the packaging in order to optimize the results. The bundle function is intended to avoid rain with high intensity and avoid pest attacks. Packaging fruit bunches of dates can be done by bunching bunches of three layers.
The layer is divided into three parts, the first is a transparent plastic. The usefulness of transparent plastic is to block rainwater seeping into bunches, while the second and third layers are plastic and paper nets. The benefits of plastic and paper nets are used to protect the fruits of birds and insects that can trigger crop failure or damage the quality of dates.
Such is the step that needs to be provided in the cholera of tropical kruma in Indonesia. hopefully after reading this article, you immediately initiate yourself to get trophy date palm seeds.
Buah manye ye
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