Planting Techniques Mangosteen
1 ) Hole Making Plant
Make the planting hole size of 50 x 50 cm 25 cm deep soil excavation and placed on one side . Planting hole deepened to 50 cm and place the excavated soil on the other side . 15-30 days planting hole before planting . Then enter the land within section ( excavation to two ) and re-enter the top layer of soil that has been mixed with 20-30 kg of manure . Distance between holes 8 x 10 m or 10 x 10 m is calculated from the midpoint of the hole . For sloping land should be made terraces , embankments and drainage overcome or prevent erosion .
2 ) How Planting
With a spacing of 10x 10 m or 8 x 10 m required 100-125 seeds per hectare . How to plant seeds are distinguished as follows :
Sprinkle the seeds in water until within polybag with polybags can be released easily .
Discard most of the roots that are too long with knife / sharp scissors .
Enter mangosteen seeds into the middle of the planting hole with soil piled up to the limit ground roots and condense slowly .
Flush until the soil is quite moist .
Give shade which is made of bamboo poles with thatched roofs . If the existing trees in the surrounding , these trees can serve as a natural protector . Shade trees must be natural and micro-climate change , for example albisia & Leucaena plants . [ mangosteen plant engineering ]
6.4 . Plant maintenance
1 ) Weeding
Perform continuous weeding and fertilizing should be done in conjunction with and scarify ie twice in a year .
2 ) Perempalan / Trimming
The branches that grow twins and had no need to be pruned fruit overcome or prevent pests and diseases . Use scissors to trim that clean & sharp to avoid infection and seal Trimmings with former pitch .
3 ) Fertilization Mangosteen
Type and dose of fertilizer recommendation is :
6 -month -old tree fertilized mixture of urea , SP - 36 and KCl ( 3:2:1 ) as much as 200-250 grams / tree .
1-3 year old tree fertilized mix 400-500 grams of urea , 650-700 grams of SP - 36 and 900-1000 grams of KCl ( 3:1:2 ) given within two to three times .
4 -year -old trees and so on cultivated a mixture of urea , SP - 36 and KCl ( 1:4:3 ) as much as 3-6 kg.pohon plus 40 kg / tree manure . Fertilizer sprinkled within the array / hydrofoil holes around the stem with a diameter as far as the size of the tree canopy . within the bolt and hole about 10-20 cm , while the distance between holes around 100-150 cm .
4 ) Irrigation & Watering
Plants that are under five years requires the availability of enough water and so continuously that need to be watered one to two days . While the mangosteen tree that is more than five years old , the frequency of watering can be reduced gradually . Watering is done by means of inundating morning irrigation or flushing .
5 ) Provision of Mulch
Straw mulch spread 3-5 cm thick ground cover around the rod that was little to suppress weeds , retain moisture and aeration and reduce water evaporation . ( How to maintain mangosteen )
