Agriculture in Indonesia has progressed rapidly, one of them on the onion farming sector. We are caught onion plant is one of the mandatory spices in every dish, therefore many reforms made by farmers to plant shallots.

We are caught red onion is a plant that has a fairly expensive price, rather than buying red onions in the market with a high price it is better to try to plant itself around your home.

This activity can save your family spending money, before following the way of planting onion is good you to pay attention to some of the conditions we explain below:

• The first requirement, you should look for areas that have a height of 0-800 above sea level because shallot plants will usually thrive in the lowlands
• Next select the area exposed to sunlight more than 12 hours because the red onion need sunlight and temperature of approximately 32 degrees Celsius
• The next requirement is the pH level should be 7, because the onions in the growth process so it needs a lot of food intake
• Soil texture is one of the requirements for onion plants to grow with maximum, suitable soil samples are rice field and moor
• What you need to pay attention to next is soil moisture approximately 70%

How to Plant the Red Onion in Polybag

Here's how to plant onion in polybags that you can imitate at home:

1. Prepare the ingredients of planting media

How to plant the first onion is to prepare the ingredients of planting media onion, in this process aims to give the place of onion plants to grow optimally. Materials needed include loose soil, compost and fertilizer mixed into one in polybags.

2. Put onion seeds

How to plant the next onion, you only need to plant the seeds of onion into polybags. In one polybag usually contains 3 pieces of seeds and given the distance between one seed to another seed about 4 cm.

3. Peanut onion

In the next process you only need to do the cultivation on the seeds of onion in order to grow optimally. Suggestion from us to do 1 gram for one polybag.

4. Watering onion plants

How to plant the next onion is watering, in this process you only need to water onion plants 2 times a day, because this one plant can not live in drought and can not live in a puddle of water.

5. Provide vegetable medicine

Furthermore, you are required to give vegetable medicine to onion plants to avoid the various pests destroyer, because if the pest is left alone will damage the harvest so that there can be harvest failure.

6. Harvest

How to plant the last shallot is the process of harvesting, you can harvest the onion crop if it meets some criteria such as yellow leaves, stems are empty / empty and onion tubers appear upwards.

How to Plant a Red Onion Without Polybag

Here's how to plant red onions without polybags you can do:

1. Selection of onion seeds

How to plant the first onion is the selection of quality onion seeds, we know there are many types of onion seeds both domestic and foreign shipments. In addition there are ways to choose quality seeds that are looking for onion crops that have tubers more than 100 days old, if still feel confused how to choose onion seeds please note the steps below:

• Seed appearance must be solid and healthy and the color must fade
• Next try you cut the bottom of the onion if it is without green color means buds have grown

The size of the onion is very determine the quality, there are 3 types of onion size are:

• Bulbs (1.8 cm and 10 grams)
• Tuber medium (1.5-1.8 cm and weight 5-10 grams)
• Small tuber (1.5 cm and weight 5 gram)

2. Management of onion plant land

Next thing you need to do is to prepare the field of onion plants, you can make a bed with the width of the degan how much you want to plant our suggestion to give the distance between beds with each other about 50 cm.

3. Check the acidity of soil pH

The next process is to check the level of acidity of the soil if it does not reach 6, make sure to sprinkle the lime first so that the soil acidity becomes stable.

4. Provision of fertilizer

How to plant the next shallots by giving fertilizer regularly on the red onion, advice from us to use puput cage or compost.

5. Onion seed planting

Next is the process of planting the onion into the field, before it prepare the seeds of onion less than 2 months. Tips from us to cut the tip of the tip of the red onion 0.5 which aims to accelerate the process of growth of buds.

6. Watering onion seeds

You already know that red onions can not live in drought, therefore you are obliged to water the shallot plants 2 times a day (morning and afternoon) until the plants are older than 10 days after that the process of watering is done only 1 time.

7. Onion pest plant control

How to plant the next onion is the control of pests, because there are many pests that attack onion plants but there are some seing attacks such as caterpillars.

Pest control can be done manually or even using vegetable drugs, if your onion plants on a small scale it is better to use the manual way by taking the caterpillar directly and destroy it but if your onion plants are on the right scale it is better to use the trap.

8. Harvest onion

How to plant the last shallot is the harvest process, this activity is often awaited by farmers because they will soon get the money.

There are several things to consider before harvesting onions such as red onion is more than 60 years since planting, yellow leaves, stalks onion red empty and usually stem fall.

Types of red onion

Here are some types of onions that are often cultivated by our society:

1. Bauji / local

The first type of onion plant is Bauji, this plant may be familiar to you because it means local plants. Bauji superiority can live in many water conditions so suitable to be planted in the rainy season, the characteristics of Bauji onion include:

• The outer skin is thin
• Shape oval / oval
• Potential harvest 7-10 tons

2. THAILAND

Beany is THAILAND type, but one onion plant is very susceptible to water so it is suitable planted during the dry season. In the number of onion harvest this one is very high, features THAILAND characteristics include:

• The skin of the fruit is very thick
• Fruit shape round
• Flesh thick fruit
• Potential harvest 18-21 tons

3. PHILIP CROOS

This one plant is almost the same as THAILAND because it can not stand with water and is suitable in the dry season. The characteristics of this plant include:

• The leaves are large and thick
• Fruit shape round
• fruit peel
• Crispy fruit flesh
• Potential harvest 14-18 tons