Agriculture

Stages of How to Plant Papaya

Seed Preparation

Prepare papaya seeds 60 gr, soaked in a solution of Benlate T ½ gr / lt.Setelah that seed sowing in polybags size 20 x 15cm.Media planting in the polybag is a mixture of 2 buckets of saturated soil and mixed with 1 bucket of manure that has been cooked .

Seedlings

After papaya seeds are ready, how to plant papaya next stage is to insert seed into polybag planting medium as deep as 1 cm and cover back with tanah.Siramlah every day for seeds germinate at the age of 2 weeks after the planting.

Here is a picture of the process of seeding and seeding how to plant papaya as follows

Papaya seedlings are actually already can be to the land after the age of 2 months, after seeding seedlings, but it would be better to move the papaya seedlings are waiting until the age of planting to reach the age of 3 months.

Land preparation

Clean the land from grass and shrubs then the ground is digemburkan by hoeing.
Let the ground used for the hoes for 1 week, so that the toxic soil evaporated by wind and sunlight.
If the soil is PH less than 5, it is necessary to calcify, then leave the soil for 2 weeks to keep the soil acidity level neutral.
Give also manure, so the soil is rich in nutrients needed by pepaya.Kemudian let stand for 1 week for the fertilizer can be mixed perfectly with the soil.
Make a bed, with a width of 250cm, height 30cm, length adjusted to the condition of the land. Distance between beds approximately 50 cm to access rainwater flow.
After that make a hole above the bed, with the size 50 x 50 x 50 cm with a spacing of 2 x 3 meters.
For land preparation step how to plant papaya, you can see the picture below.

drawing of land preparation how to plant papaya

Planting Papaya

The recommended way to plant papaya is to start during the rainy season, so that the new plants get immediate rain water supply. Move papaya seedlings that have been sown into the hole above the bed that has been prepared.

After the papaya seedlings are planted, close the hole with the ground around the hole until the end of the papaya seedlings.

picture how to plant papaya you can see below

picture how to plant papaya

Watering Papaya Plant

The next stage of how to plant papaya is watering the papaya plants regularly, every morning and afternoon during the dry season. But if the rainy season, watering is done once a day in the morning.

Weeding of Plants

Land clearing of weeds, weeds, and other disturbing plants. It is important that your desired results are as expected. This is so that the nutrients present in the soil, not taken by other plants besides papaya plants themselves.

Additional Fertilization

To keep your papaya plants nutritious, it takes subsequent fertilization. By using organic fertilizer and manure.

You can see how to grow papaya below, at the weeding and fertilization stage, as follows:

image maintenance - how to plant papaya
The first follow-up fertilization, carried out at 1 week of planting age, then at 1 month of planting age, next at 3 months of planting age, and at 6 months of planting age and so on.

Harvest Period

This is the long-awaited period in papaya cultivation. Generally harvest is done after the planting period of papaya reaches 10-12 months. Papaya fruit after the first harvest will continue to bear fruit, until reaching the age of less productive that is, when stepping on the age of 4 years.

The characteristics of papaya fruit that is ready to harvest is the color of the fruit skin has started yellowing. Common picking techniques usually use "songgo" to prevent papaya fruit from falling and damaging.

Give a newspaper pad, or it can also use waste paper packs of cement when papaya is packed in a basket. It is intended that the papaya fruit is not injured by a relatively sharp basket when it comes to fruit.

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image ready for harvest - how to plant the right papaya