For those of you who like to eat kangkung why not try to plant it yourself at home? So you do not need to buy again to market when will make it. The process of cutivation easy loh, which need to be prepared just a basin as a container.
Prepare basins and filtering. The water input in the basin then the filtration input is slightly submerged. Put kangkung seeds. Then save under the sun. In a few days the seedlings will begin to grow. The roots slowly through the filtering holes.
Perhaps that must be considered is the water nutrition in the basin. We want organic or non-organic kangkung (chemical fertilizer). If you want non-organic can dissolve 0.5 tablespoons granule NPK (granules).
If you want to be healthy, of course do not harm. Can use liquid organic fertilizer (POC) which is sold in many gardeners. Or want to save more, create your own. Many tutorials on youtube. We can use the fruit skin or the remaining pieces of decomposed vegetables, then taken the juice of the water. For the manufacture we should read more, because there are some important things that must be considered when making POC.
PHASE 1: MATERIAL PREPARATION AND EQUIPMENT
Hydroponic equipment is needed kangkung not much and will not drain a lot of the contents of your wallet. Some of the materials to be used are also limited to seeds and fertilizers. For more details, here are the ingredients and tools you need to prepare before starting hydroponic kangkung cultivation at home.
PHASE 2: SELECTION OF QUALITY QUALITY SEEDS
If you want the results of the production of kangkung plants are really good, then in determining the seeds of kangkung to be planted or used must be quality. We recommend you to use superior kangkung seedlings or spinach kale.
Seed kangkung dreams save some of the advantages such as harvesting by the way pulled or cut, plant growth is not easy to accompany the flowers, and growth in unison and not creeping. By choosing a good kale seedlings, then the success in the cultivation of water spinach will increase with the quality of the resulting crop.
PHASE 3: KANGKUNG SEED BREEDING
Actually there are two ways to plant hydroponic kangkung, namely by seed seeding techniques or direct planting techniques. Whether in a basin, with a paralon, with a used bottle, or by farming methods on a large field using a ground bed, all can be with the technique and the results obtained are no different.
Then which one is best? Both are good, but the seedling seed technique passes through two processes. In cultivating the hydroponics kangkung plant, we will invite you to use the technique of seedling.
Before sowing, you must apply the seeds to know which seeds are suitable to use and not. How to?
Provide a container such as a basin and pour water.
Pour the seed into a container of water, leave all day.
The next day, you will see the seeds that float and drown.
Remove the floating kangkung seeds because the seeds are not able to germinate and experience slow growth.
After getting the seeds that are really worthy of quality at the same time, then you can start seedling seedling activities. Here's the guide:
Take a cloth with enough thickness to hold water.
Wrap the seeds that have been soaked with cloth.
Flush the cloth with warm water as necessary. The goal is that the cloth just wet in order to keep the moisture to accelerate the sprouted spinach seeds into sprouts.
PHASE 4: GRANTING HYDROPONIC NUTRITION
Nutrition needed by kale also does not differ with most plant nutrients. As mentioned earlier, you can make hydroponic nutrition by using organic ingredients from the vicinity, or if you want to be practical by mixing organic fertilizer purchased at the farm shop.
If you prefer to use hydroponic nutrition from AB Mix fertilizer, then here's how to make it:
Take 1 liter of water, then add 5 ml of nutrients A and 5 ml of nutrients B. Once the dosage.
Stir until the fertilizer is well blended and enter the nutrient solution into the basin with the altitude reaching the lower limit surface of the tin.
Try not to let the seeds are submerged because it will rot later.
PHASE 5: PLANTATION PLACE DESIGN
What should you do?
Move all the seeds that have sprouted into the besek. You can coat the bottom with the aquarium filter foam or not, no problem. Hydroponics kangkung cultivation does not use planting media is also not a problem because kangkung has a riding root that will support the water spinach to stand upright.
Pour the nutrient solution into the basin until it reaches the surface of the seed and the seed. If you use an aquarium filter foam then it is quite up to the affected foam.
Put the tip onto the basin containing the nutrient solution earlier.
Next, you can immediately introduce the seeds to break into the sun. Or you can also let the plants do the growth motion (fitotropisme) by covering the besek and basin with black plastic for a day.
If you from the beginning directly want hydroponic kale to use besek more than one (direct lots), then there are things you should know. The seeds of kale will experience better and more efficient growth when the seeds are large in one container, and there is hardly any space between them.
PHASE 6: TREATMENT OF KANGKUNG PLANTS
This stage of treatment is easy. You just need to pay attention to the nutritional needs of kale and do not let kangkung not get the nutrients from the solution below. When the plants are 2 weeks old, the concentration of the solution will increase. You need to increase the amount of fertilizer that was 5 ml per 1 liter to 7 - 9 ml per liter. Replace the nutrient solution if it smells. And so on until entering the harvest.
PHASE 7: HARVESTING
Kangkung including plants that grow in a short time. That is one of the advantages besides can grow in various coverage of planting conditions. Harvesting kangkung you can do after 4 - 6 weeks (about 1 month or more) when it looks fresh and not old. Furthermore, you can enjoy and enjoy the hydroponic kangkung is delicious and healthy with family beloved.
25 days later we can harvest the healthy organic kangkung.
Good luck....
Tips: If you want to harvest kale every day, make a sufficient planting container. Minimum of 25 containers. Because the harvest kangkung 25 days. So the distance is made different time of planting. So we can plant every day, every day to harvest.
Information :
To buy seeds can be in place of ornamental plant sales
Water does not need to be replaced. In fact should be added if dry.
This technique can to plant other than water spinach, such as watercress, cesim manis, mustard ... just have to add the soil above filtering.
This technique is purely groundless, aka simple hydroponics