Practical Way Of Cultivating Organic Cultivation

One of the plants that are loved by the community as a side dish is Cucumis or Cucumis sativus is a plant that can adapt to various types of climate. However, cucumber cultivation is maximized in dry climatic conditions with full irradiation at a temperature of 21-27oC. While the ideal height for cucumber cultivation is 1000-1200 meters from sea level. Even so cucumbers can still be planted in the lowlands.

Organic cucumber cultivation requires extra care, because these plants are prone to pests and weather. Cucumbers will be better planted on soil containing organic nutrients quite a lot. Soil texture is good for plant growth is low clay with pH 6-7.

Preparation of cucumber seeds

Cucumber cultivation usually multiplies the plant through the seeds. How to get a good seed is to select the cucumber that small base but the fruit is long and large. Let the cucumber ripe on the tree. Once visible it will decay the fruit picking and let stand for one night. The next morning the fruit was split and scraped the seeds. Then put in a clean container and leave it back for one night.

After that, the seeds of cucumber seeds in the water flow until the membrane that surrounds it disappears. To facilitate flaking of the membrane, mix fine ash on the seed. At the time of sifting do the seed sorting. Choose seeds that sink, not drifting in the flow of water. Then dry the cucumber seeds for 2 days. After drying the seeds should be packaged in a clean glass bottle. Save the seeds for 1-2 months before use to eliminate its normal life. Well-kept seeds can last up to a year.

The day before cucumber cultivation is done, prepare the seeds by soaking in warm water for 3-5 hours then place on a damp cloth and moist. After 15-24 hours will usually grow buds from the seeds, and the seeds of cucumber ready to be planted.

Tips for organic cucumber cultivation

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Organic farming

First plow or back ground as deep as 20-30 cm. In soil conditions with pH less than 6 give dolomite lime of 1-2 tons per hectare, depending on soil acidity. Mix with soil and let stand for 1-2 weeks.

Make a bed with a width of 1 meter height 20-30 cm long and tailored needs. Make the distance between beds 30 cm. Close the bed with plastic mulch. The usefulness of plastic mulch for

maintaining soil moisture, as cucumbers are better grown in drought-filled dry seasons. However, the root zone for cucumbers must be kept moist.

Make a planting hole on the mulch surface with a diameter of 10 cm, each bed two rows of planting holes. The distance between the planting holes in a line of 40 cm and the distance between lines 50-60 cm.

Give manure, preferably a mixture of chicken manure with goat or cow dung

1: 1. How to apply fertilizer can be stocked in beds then stirred with soil, or put on the planting hole. Put the fertilizer as much as 0.5-1 kg on each planting hole. Total requirement of fertilizer for one hectare 20-30 tons. After fertilizer leave the soil for 1-2 weeks.

Planting cucumber seeds

Plant the sprouted seeds, prepared in the manner described above. Put each seed into the planting hole then cover with soil. Flush every morning and evening. After 2 days usually seeds are planted already started to grow and sprout somewhat higher.

Treatment of cucumber cultivation

At the age of 3-4 days after planting do plant control, then immediately embroider when there are plants that die or fail to grow with new seeds. Clean the weeds around the planting area. At the age of 2 weeks after planting, usually leaves have begun to appear. Give additional fertilizer in the form of liquid fertilizer.

Liquid fertilizer is made from mature goat litter mixed with water. Composition mixture 1 kg of goat dung with 1 liter of water. The mixture should be silenced for one week. Give liquid fertilizer by sprinkling it on each planting hole. The need for liquid fertilizer is 1 liter per square meter.

To get a good fruit, you should install a rod or turus made of bamboo. Place one bamboo pole for each planting hole and tie each four bamboo sticks to the top. Help the plants to wrap or climb on the bamboo.

Control of pests and diseases

Some diseases and pests that attack cucumbers are known as cacantal or oteng-oteng. These pests attack the leaves and can cause death to the plants. In addition, pests that often attack cucumbers are ground worms. These pests usually attack the stem that became the base of leaves or fruit leaves. Both of these pests can be controlled by using biopesticides made from kipait extract and gadung mixed with rabbit urine.

Diseases that attack cucumber cultivation are rot of leaves, white flour, anthracnose, leaf spot and fruit rot. This disease can be controlled by technical culture in the form of crop rotation and disposal of plant part affected by disease.

Harvest cucumber cultivation

Cucumber starts flowering on 20 days after planting and fruiting after 40 days. The first harvest of cucumber cultivation is usually done after 75 days. Harvesting is done gradually for 1-1.5 months. Harvest can be done every day, generally can be picked 1-2 pieces per plant.

Good cucumber production can reach 30 tons per hectare. Cucumber crop should be placed in a cool place because the cucumber will quickly lose the water content. Once harvested, usually cucumber in the pack in a place that has air circulation or inserted sacks for sale to the market.

hopefully this way can be useful for who want cucumber cultivation.