Hello friend #steemit and #homesteading all, this time I want to share information on how to cultivate Papaya California/ Calina and a little explanation how to plant it. Hopefully there are benefits for us all.
Papaya Calina is one of the superior papaya that is currently ngetrend cultivated because it has several advantages compared to other papaya varieties. Papaya California is native Indonesia has been glorified into a variety of Calina or IPB-9 IPB PKBT breeding results.
Papaya superior of the Calina type is very potential if cultivated intensively because it is able to bear fruit throughout the year without knowing the season. The sweet taste will make us addicted if it has felt it.
In addition to picking the fruit was very easy because the height of the tree is only about 1.5 meters. And because of its height, the Calaya Pepaya can be planted with a dense population of 1,000 1,500 trees / hectares.
Another advantage of this plant is easy maintenance and also not requires a lot of water. Although planted in a barren and arid region, papaya Calina will still have a sweet and fresh taste.
In short, Papaya calina is a very suitable commodity to maximize marginal unproductive lands into economically profitable productive lands.
Papaya Calina is very interested in consumers, the productivity is very high and the price is quite high. It is suitable to increase the income of farmers living in barren or rain-fed areas.
Papaya Calina is starting to bloom at the age of 4 months planting and will continue to bear fruit throughout the year. On one hectare land can be planted calina papaya with a spacing of 2.50 m x 2.50 m so that the number of plants will be as many as 1500 trees / hectares.
Calina Papaya fruit is not too big. The weight of the fruit is between 0.8 to 2 kilograms per fruit. The skin is thick and the fruit is slightly oval. Another characteristic is that the ripe fruit tends to be yellow with a sweet taste, chewy texture and thick meat.
Here's how to seed and plant it:
Seeding
In the California papaya cultivation system, just like any other papaya species, is usually propagated by generative means ie with using the seeds. If you want to save on this seed is best cultivated by taking the fruit seeds are deliberately left to cook on the tree. However, if considered troublesome, seeds or papaya seeds California is also sold in many agricultural stores.
After getting the seeds, first must be seeded by soaking using Phefoc solution to neutralize the seeds from possible disease. And also soaked SOT Solution to provide fertility when the seeds are planted.
Do not choose floating seeds because it is not feasible to plant. Separate the drowned seeds and then immersed in newsprint made moist then store in a shady place to grow buds. If it has been seen buds, move to a small polybag for seeding and planting process.
Land Preparation
Once the seeds are available, before they are planted, the soil should be prepared first. The preparation is quite simple. Perform land clearing mainly from grasses and weeds. Then make a planting hole with a distance and size 60x60x50cm.
As for the matter of distance of each hole adjusted to the spacing of papaya. For the California type, the planting distance is 2.5 m x 2.5 m. Can also be 2.5 x 2.75 m.
The prepared planting hole was left empty for at least 7-15 days before then covered with soil mixed with bokashi fertilizer and leached SOT and PHEFOC solution.
Planting Process
In California papaya cultivation, the cultivation process is done with care, ie move the seedlings that have been pinned from polybag to the planting hole that has been prepared. Seedlings that have been sown for 1, 5 months are seedlings that are ready to plant.
Preferably, 1 day before planting, the land is irrigated first. The planting process should be done during the afternoon.
Do it slowly because the soil on polybag nursery should not be destroyed otherwise, the roots can break and the seeds will wither and die after being planted.
After planting is done continue with watering. And for further watering can be done every day to keep the humidity if it is not raining.