PINEAPPLE CULTIVATION 1

A. Nursery

Pineapple planting success largely determined by the quality of the seed. Pineapple can captive breeding with the vegetative and generative way.

• How are vegetative shoots shoots from the root, stem, buds of fruit, fruit crowns and stem cuttings.
• Generative Ways with seeds that are grown with the seedbed, (rarely used). A good quality seeds must come from plants that grow in normal, healthy and free from pests and diseases.

a) Seed requirements

The good seeds should have leaves that look thick-thick contains full, free of pests and disease, easily obtained in large quantities, relatively uniform growth and easy transporting mainly to seedling stem cuttings.

b) Preparation of a seed

The seeds of a pineapple from seeds (generative) are rarely used because it requires special techniques and some kind of pineapple can not perform pollination itself and do not produce seeds.

How reproduction in a vegetative (root shoots) has distinctive features:

• Shoots growing from the stem section located in the ground
• The number of shots per clump of relatively few roots
• The shape of the leaves is more slender, adolescence root shoots are relatively short.

Other vegetative way (sprout stems) discrete shoots growing from the stem and the number of shoots per clump are relatively low.

Bud of the stem has distinctive:

• Shoots that grow on stalks of fruit under the fruit stalks and buds at the top of the stem
• Number of buds of fruit per plant are relatively a lot until it reaches 10 buds and shoots size varies from plant growth.

For vegetative way to the Crown of the fruit characteristics are:

• Shoots grown from the eyes of a non-active bud on the stem
• Then sown in sterile media with a special treatment as well as the number of seedlings produced many, uniforms, and easy to transport.

Preparation of seeds (the seeds) to pineapple plant seed buds differentiated into stems and seeds of pineapple from the cuttings. Preparation of seedling stem shoots:

• Select the parent tree trunk shoots which are fruiting/after harvest
• A good stem Shoots is the length of 30-35 cm.
• The leaves near the base of the tree was cut to reduce evaporation and makes it easy to transport
• After that leave for several days in the shade and the seeds are ready to transport to the place of direct planting soon planted.

For the preparation of pineapple seedlings from cuttings, the first step being performed are:

• Cut the stems of pineapple that already harvested the fruit along the 2.5 cm
• Then the pieces split into 4 sections containing the eye shoots
• For Media in the form of clean sand in the planting
• Seedlings produced with a height of 25-35 cm or 3-5 month revoked
• Are planted in the garden. When the seedlings will be transported in the distance, its roots wrapped in moist humus

c) Seeding Technique

The seedbed for pineapple require special treatment:

• It would be better if smeared aphrodisiac root (Rootone) on the surface parts of the rods to accelerate the growth of roots
• Parts of the stem on tub sown deep 1.5-2.5 cm planting distance and 5-10 cm
• Media Condition the seedbed is maintained to keep it moist and good air circulation, by covering with a plastic tub of the seedbed light translucent sheet
• Pineapple Stem Cuttings are allowed to germinate and take root. The media propagate nourished with compost
• Mixed media fine dirt, sand and smooth or granulated manure manure with smooth 

d) Of Nursery

Nursery/nursery maintenance, watering:

• Conducted periodically maintained in order for the condition of the planting medium is always moist and not dry so that the seed does not die
• Fertilizing is done by administering compost by comparing levels already determined
• Grant of a pesticide can be made if necessary
• Transfer of seedlings can be done if the size of the seedlings reaches a height of 25-30 cm or 3-5 months.

B. Planting Media Processing

1) Land preparation

• Preparation time and the opening of the land that is best when its summer time
• Dispose of trees not required
• Tillage can be done at the beginning of the rainy season
• Soil treated with hoe/hijacked as deep as 30-40 cm to lose
• Let the soil become dry for at least 15 days, so that ground ready planted

2) Establishment of the seedbed

The formation of the seedbed can be done simultaneously with the processing of the ground for a second time to suit the cropping systems being used. Seedbed enough by way of:

• Leveling the land
• Created the channel inflow and water disposal
• The system seedbed is done by way of making the dike wall-dike wall as wide as 80-120 cm
• The distance between the dike wall 90-150 cm or other variations of the cropping system in accordance with the
• Height map or dike wall is between 30-40 cm or adjust.




PINEAPPLE CULTIVATION 2

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