How to Cultivate a Hybrid Coconut

Hybrid Coconut is the result of cross breeding to obtain the superior varieties that is from deep coconut varieties and coconut matures so as to produce good properties of both coconut species.

Here's how to cultivate a hybrid coconut:

a. Terms grow coconut can grow well in area with height 0-450 mdpl with have rainfall about 1300-2300 mm / year and have ideal temperature about 20 ° C-27 ° C. Good soil type to plant coconut is volcanic soil type, sandy, clay, rocky soil, and alluvial with degree of acidity or soil pH about 5 to 8.

b. Prepare hybrid coconut seeds, choose good quality seeds. Choose coconut seeds from mother trees that have aged 20 to 40 years old, have strong and straight stems, free from pests and have high productivity. Good coconut to be seed is a fruit that has been around 12 months old, has a shape round or oval with the size of 22cm-25cm for its length and 17 cm-22cm for its width, has smooth and smooth fruit skin and brown, Has enough water content when coconut is shaken or shaken.

c. Seedling of Hybrid Coconut Seeds If the fruits to be seeded seeds are ready then save the coconut for about 1 month.

After that then do seeding seeds seedling. Seedling seeds can be done in the bed, for the bed then before planting the seedlings in fermented first by digging as deep as 30-40 cm and make beds with the size of 2 meters for breadth and 25 cm for height and distance between the beds made in 60-80 cm. Next do the nursery by cutting the seeds of seeds with a width of 5 cm on the bulge coir stem by using a knife or the other. If it is next plant seeds seedlings in beds up to 2/3 parts with the incision position is at the top. After seed seedlings are 3-4 cm long the seeds are transferred to polybags.

d. Seedling Seedling Care During the nursery process takes place then do the treatment in the form of watering in a routine manner 2 times a day in the morning and evening. In addition to giving insecticides or fungicides so that the seeds are not attacked by pests, do weeding weed every once a month or by spraying herbicides, do fertilization using NPK and Magnesium fertilizers every month. And do also the selection of seeds. Seedlings can be moved to the planting area when it has sprouted and has about five months to 12 months old.

e. Preparation of planting land do the cultivation of planting land about 1-2 months before planting, clear the cultivation area from the harvesting plant, then do the soil eruption by using the hoe, if the soil on the land has a high acidity then do the calcification. Make a planting hole with the size of about 60 cm x 60 cm x 60 cm to 100 cm x 100 cm x 100 cm with the spacing between holes planting about 9 m x 9 m x 9 m. After the planting hole, give each planting hole with 300 grams of TSP fertilizer mixed with the top soil.

f. Planting Coconuts After all is ready then next do the planting. Open polybag planting coconut seedlings carefully not to damage the roots. Next enter the seeds in the planting hole that has been prepared. For 1 hectare of land with a spacing of 9x9x9 meters required about 160 stems seeding that 17 of which are seeds for embroidery.