Papaya trees or in Latin Carica Papaya are generally cultivated generatively by seeding seeds. Apparently this papaya plant can also be propagated by vegetative means that is by grafting.
Grafting is a vegetative propagation technique in which the goal is the nature of the resulting plant will be the same as the parent plant and accelerate the results of plant fertilization. This grafting technique is commonly used to get a papaya plant that is not high and is expected to bear fruit bush.
the results of this papaya graft has its own specialties, namely fast-producing fruit, trees are trunked low, and the resulting fruit bushy and sweet according to the parent. as for the benefits of transplanting papaya include:
- Transplant crops have the same properties as the parent plant,
- Faster fruitful,
- Short-stemmed plants.
How to grafting a papaya tree?
Basically the technique in doing papaya tree grafting is the same as other cambium plants, such as mango and guava trees. We need to remember that in grafting, the plants to be grafted are plants that have cambium. If the plants that we will graft do not have cambium, it certainly will not be grafted.
Prepare tools and materials in the form, knives, small pieces of wood or plastic (small sheets), rope rapia, and bags of crackle.
Find a papaya tree that has a fruit that is bushy and sweet and healthy and not attacked by disease. It is intended that later the fruit produced bushy and sweet just like the mother.
Please select the main stem or branches that want to be made in the graft media.
Slice the rod from the edge / edge up to the center of the stem, by tilting from bottom to top. This slice has a goal to produce new papaya buds to be grafted.
Sliced on the stem further restricted by using a small plastic sheet or using wood pieces so that the stem meat does not converge again.
Cover the slice with soil mixed with fertilizer and wrap the soil using plastic or coconut husk.
Approximately three weeks, grafts can be moved to planting media or on land. Cut the stem at the bottom of the graft carefully, so that the graft is not damaged.
So how to transplant Papaya Trees, Good luck and can take care of his papaya until it is fruitful and can be harvested. If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to submit them via the comments field.