Know the Basics of Tomato Cultivation
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Other agricultural sectors that are very potential to be developed one of tomato plants, maybe friend of tani peasant who have, is and will cultivation of tomato plant, following base of tomato cultivation
Seed requirements • 300-500 g / ha.
How to make your own
• Choose an old tomato (red color), 3-day plunger and tomatoes will be soft, then remove the seeds.
• The seeds are slimmed then fermented for 3 days so that air and mucus apart, then wash clean.
• Seeds that have been dried about 3 days after the dry is stored or ready to be planted.
Seed preparation and seeding:
• Seed immersed in warm air (50%) at least 6 hours.
• Seeds are planted in seedlings or planted directly in banana pots of 5 cm in size and 4 cm in diameter filled with mixed soil and manure media. Above is sown Curater to remove soil pests.
• Seedlings ready to be moved to the field for about 25 days (has leafed 3 -4 strands).
Penyayan land
• The soil is perfectly processed, make the bed width 100-120 m, height of at least 20 cm. Distance between bed with 50 cm.
Planting
• Plant spacing 50-60 x 40-50 cm. For seedlings in banana pot media directly planted without removing the banana leaves. This way is more suitable on
dry season because the plant is not experiencing stress.
Fertilization
• Dosage per hectare: 200 kg urea + 200 kg SP36 + 100 kg KCl
• Delivery time: urea and KCl before or when planting at half the dosage. Fertilizer (urea and KCl) aged 25-30 days after planting. SP36 fertilizer at once when planting.
Maintenance
• The tomato plant is easy to fall so that it needs to be installed with a plant height of 5 and 15 cm in the next fertilization.
• Weeding done at age 2, 4 and 6 weeks after planting. • Watering is done when rainfall is very low.
• To control the tomato caterpillars used insecticide Ambush, Metador, etc .. As for fungal wilt disease used Dithane, Antracol etc. and for wilt bacteria used Agrept.
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