Climate is different from the climate where the date palm trees come from, a number of special treatment should be given. These differences are on the air temperatures in the Middle East to reach 40OC - 50OC.
So also with rainfall in the Middle East rarely happens rain. In fact, to ripen the date palm fruit is needed enough sunlight. Special treatment or some things that must be considered when doing the cultivation of dates to be fruitful of them are:
- Choose a date cultivar of the Type that is sure to grow well. Because of the dozens of existing date cultivars, not all are suitable for planting.
- For every 25 female date palm trees, plant one date palm tree.
- Use female date palm seeds from a good quality parent plant.
- When the date palms are mature and ready to mate, do artificial pollination by tying male flowers and female flowers or by threshing pollen of male flowers into female flowers.
- When the date palm trees bear fruit, provide adequate nutrient intake by providing fertilizer, watering enough and avoid bird and fly disturbances.
- Make thinning by pruning fruit that is too small and leaves a large fruit, so that large fruit can grow well and become bigger.
Steps to grow palm seeds based on organic experience of organicilo.co include:
- Preparation of Seed Type
- Clean up the remains of the sticky flesh
- Soaking / Soaking
- Germination Process
- Transfer of seeds
PREPARATION OF KURMA SEEDS
To prepare the date palm to be grown, as described above you can buy dates on the market or by importing seeds / seed dates. Better to plant date palms that have high selling value either fruit or tree such as: Ajwa, Medjool, Zahidi, Deglet nour and Khalas. According to some literature on foreign date palm forums, the palm tree has good fruit and tree prices.
CLEANING SEEDS OF KURMA FROM REST - ORDER FRUIT
Cleaning the date palm from the remains of the meat is very important, this way is done to obtain percentage% high germination power. The remnants of the flesh that stick to the seeds can cause the growth of fungi, or can invite ants and white lice to eat and damage the seeds before germinating. The experience we have ever experienced is the growth of mushrooms on date palm seeds and the damage of the seeds due to eating black ants before the seeds could germinate.
Wash and drown ground beans deglet
The best way to clean the date palm from the remains of the meat is to wash it with water and fine sand, until the seed condition is completely clean from the remains of the flesh.
RESERVATION / SOAK SEEDS
After the date palm is washed, the next step is to soak or soak the seeds using clean water (admin using mineral water in the packaging) up to 5 x 24 hours. Water to soak the date palm every 24 hours should be replaced with new water, to speed up the process of seed germination on the fourth day should use water mixture and ZPT (Organic Growth Regulatory) according to the dosage.
Soak Ajwa & Deglet dates into clean water
To reduce the level of failure in seed germination, should avoid using water sourced from PDAM, this is because the water is channeled by the taps contain chlorine content and less precise for seed germination process. Use uncontaminated well water or best use Mineral Water in packaging.
PROCESS MIXING SEEDS
At the stage or germination process you can do with two methods, namely seed seed that has passed the step of soaking 5 days earlier, can be directly sowing on pots using cocopeat and sand mixture in the thin cap using cocopeat. Or seeds grown / dikecambahkan roots first using a container / tupperware coated wet tissue on the bottom then close tightly and store in a dark place.
Seed palm seeds in pots with cocopeat
The process of germination using wet tissue usually takes 2-4 weeks, after growing with a new root 5-10 cm roots in the move to the plant media, whether using a pot or polybag. But the way that admins use now is sowing directly seeds that have been soaked using pots, without going through the germination process first, after growing a new leaf moving process in polybags.
PLANT MEDIA FOR KURMA SEEDS
Mixture of planting medium for date palm seeds should use materials that have a nice porosity, meaning that the media to plant date palms when watered then the water goes down entirely. The mixture of planting media using Sand, Compost (bokashi), cocopeat and rice husk charcoal, but the mixture is not raw you can use other materials that have the best porosity. For comparison the mixture of planting media is 2: 1: 1 (sand 2, Compost 1 and chaff charcoal 1).
Cultivate the seeds of dates Khalas 1 leaf
A good mixture of planting media is an important factor to meet all the nutrient needs for plants to accelerate the growth of dates. This is because the average type of palm palm has the power of growing speed is moderate to very slow if the adequacy of all types of nutrients and watering factors are lacking.
