Results From Planting Annual Fruits, Avocado Cultivation
Avocado plants are fruit trees in the form of a tree with the Latin name Persea maericana Mill / Persea gratissima Gaerth. Avocado plants come from the lowlands / high Central America and is expected to enter Indonesia in the 18th century. Officially between 1920-1930 Indonesia has introduced 20 avocado varieties from Central America and the United States to obtain superior varieties to improve people's health and nutrition, particularly in the highlands.
Avocado plant part that is widely used is the fruit as fresh fruit food. In addition, the use of avocado flesh commonly used by European society is used as food ingredients that are processed in various cuisines. Another benefit of avocado meat is for cosmetic ingredients.
Other parts that can be exploited are the young leaves as traditional medicine (drug kidney stones, rheumatism)
Avocado varieties in Indonesia can be classified into two, namely:
1) superior varieties
These properties include high production, tolerance to pests and diseases, uniform oval fruit and medium size, good quality fruit and not fibrous, small seeds attached to the cavity of the seeds, and slippery fruit skin. Until the date of January 14, 1987, the Minister of Agriculture has set 2 varieties of avocado superior, namely avocado ijo long & round ijo.
The properties of the two varieties are:
High tree: 5-8 m long green avocado, 6-8 m round green avocado.
Leaf shape: long green avocado with flat edges, green round avocado with choppy edges.
Fruiting: Long green avocados continuously, depending on the location & fertility of the land, avocado round ijo constantly, depending on the location & fertility of the land.
2) Other varieties
Avocado varieties of this group is germplasm Research & Technology Assessment, Tlekung, Malang. Some of the avocado varieties found in the Tlekung experimental garden, Malang are long red avocados, red round, dickson, butler, winslowson, seedlings, puebla, furete, collinson, waldin, ganter, mexcola, duke, ryan, leucadia, queen & edranol.
HOW TO PLANT ALPOKAT TO QUICKLY FRUIT
To start how to plant this avocado, I explained from the seeds that will be in the seedlings first, then in the bud bud, and then planted in the field to bear fruit.
1. Choose seeds for seedling
In my friend chose the seeds of avocados that want sowing, you should choose the seeds directly from the fruit. Choose a large fruit, a perfect diameter and fruit not physically disabled. Then in the split and seeds in the dry, may be in the drying but do not dry the merota, just the skin is dry.
Flowering and fertilization
Because this avocado is a seasonal crop, so many who say kalo avocados fruit fruit fruit.
In fact, all the fruit plants can bear fruit, depending on how care, and the appropriate fertilizer. So the plants quickly aroused for flowering and fruiting.
Likewise with the avocado, if the vegetative way is likely to be fruitful within 5 years. Even faster.
To maximize avocado plants to quickly bear fruit you can use stimulants of flowers and fruits. How to get it live buy at the nearest agricultural pharmacy.
How to harvest avocado fruit
For the way of picking the avocado fruit must be careful not to fall, because a little bruise will result in bonyok fruit, when the fruit is ripe.
So it is advisable to use the "poke", or "bamboo kranjang", in its javanese "songgo" which is "long little bamboo which is at the end of a rounded webbing, as a rod in plucking the avocado.
That idea looks great. I like it @jeniferlove ◕ ‿ ◕✿
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