CULTIVATION AND PROCESSING VANILLI(PART 3)

TENDANCE
Planting and selection of good seeds, should be supported with care so that the vanilla plants are able to produce the desired fruit.
agricultural Vanilla care includes crop arrangement, fertilization, arrangement of climbing / shelter plants, thinning of fruits, and control and control of pests / diseases.
GOVERNING GROWTH
Vanilla is a plant that grows propagate. If left to grow its fame reaches hundreds of meters in length.it is advisable that the vanilla growth is set at propagation with a height of no more than two meters, in order to facilitate the harvesting and maintenance.
There are several models of propagation applied by farmers, such as regeneration propagation system, fountain, or fence. The regeneration propagation system, ie the plant is allowed to propagate up to approximately two meters. Then directed down, dangle.When it reaches the ground, part of the stem is slightly diverted with soil and curved up again. So on. The fountain system, almost the same as the regeneration system.
 However, the vanilla rod is not allowed to reach the ground, approximately 5 cm from the ground is curved upwards. The fence system, which directs the growth of vanilla on a strap / rubber stretched from one tree to another.
 The main stem grows along the range provided and its branches will dangle downwards.
 FERTILIZATION
Vanilla also needs to be nurtured to increase the supply of nutrients needed.In addition to basic fertilizers that are given at the time of planting, vanilla also need further fertilizer.
Vanilla farmers in singaraja (bali) cultivate their plants twice a year. By the dry season and unproductive vanilla rainy season NPK (15-15-15) is given as much as 40 kg per hectare once.
Plants that have been produced, doisnya added to 60 kg per hectare.
NPK fertilizer is given by making a groove of fertilizer around the stem.Distance groove and stems approximately 20 cm so that the fertilizer is not about the base of the stem and roots. fertilizer put into the groove, then covered thinly with soil.
Once in two weeks the unproductive vanilla plant needs to be sprayed with 0.5 kg of hectare of leaf fertilizers. The plant already produces 1 kg per hectare. Each spoon of leaf fertilizer is dissolved in 10 liters of water.

reference
Trubus magazine
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