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Ginger is part of one of the spices that are needed by the people of Indonesia because of its well-known properties as medicine as well as warmer for the body. Because of this function, ginger plant is one of the plants with medicinal properties that have a pseudo-stem.
In addition, this ginger plant is part of the family of other medicinal plants such as temu lawak, black temu, turmeric, kencur, and galangal. Ginger is basically a spice plant originating in Asia Pacific starting from India to China. Because of this ginger also later these countries hold the title as a country that makes use of ginger plants as medicinal plants, spices for cooking and traditional medicines.
Therefore, with many properties owned by ginger plants, not a few people who cultivate the ginger plants. For more details how to grow ginger can be seen through the following article.
Ginger nursery
To have quality ginger seeds, we should use quality ginger seeds as well. The seeds should have met the quality standards possessed by plants such as plants that have genetic quality, fisionlogik quality is defined as a plant with a high percentage grow, and has a physical quality that means the seeds of ginger plants that will be used in planting is a ginger plant that is free from pests and diseases that exist.
For that reason, some things that must be owned by ginger plants for breeding is appropriate as follows.
Better ginger seed material that will be used for planting is taken directly from the farm or garden area is still fresh, not taken by buying it in the market.
To do the planting, you should choose seed ginger plants that have entered a fairly old age, around the age of 9-10 months.
Then the last, should also be selected seeds of healthy ginger and skin on the rimpangnya not have cuts or abrasions.
After making a selection of ginger seeds to be used, should be done seeding techniques for ginger seedlings ready for planting.
Ginger Planting Technique
This seeding technique is basically to make uniform seeds of plants to be planted. Instead, after we do the selection of seeds of ginger plants things to do is to added first. In the seeding of ginger plants can be done with two techniques that is techniques by using wooden crates and techniques using the bed.
Wooden Crate Technique
Rhizome ginger plants that will be used for planting should be done while drying which will not make the ginger seedlings become dry. Then, the seeds that have been dried should be stored in the period 1 - 1.5 months.
Ration of the rhizome that has been done drying by using the hands, then each ginger cut into 3-5 buds. After that, the pieces of rhizomes are inserted into the sack which is then put into a solution such as fungicide and substances to regulate growth in the plant about 1 minute, then the pieces are dried again.
Insert the pieces into the wooden casket at the base of the casket tersbut will be layered seeds. At the top of the seedlings are given abrasive ash or rice husk, then done the same as before until the top of the wooden casket in the form of ash or rice husk, slam what we use yng. In the period of about 2 - 4 weeks, ginger seeds are inserted into the wooden casket will be ready for planting.
Bedeng Engineering
Make a room measuring 10 x 8 m, quite simply because it will be used to do seeding ginger seeds. On the inside of the room will be made beds that have the basic ingredients of straw that at the top will be given a ginger rhizome, then covered with straw.
Do the same thing (put the rhizome and close it again by using straw) to form into 4 layers on the top of the form of straw. The next thing to do is to provide care for the seeds placed on the bendengan by giving it a treatment like watering is done every day and should occasionally be sprayed by using a liquid to keep the plant like a fungicide.
Within two weeks after the seeding, the rhizomes usually begin to appear buds. Then, choose the seeds of quality ginger plants, how to determine it is by way of breaking into 3-5 parts of the eye buds by hand on the ginger rhizome to be used for planting and ginger weight to be used about 40-60 grams.
After seeding, the next thing to do is to prepare the land that will be used for planting.
Processing Media Planting
In order to get maximum results when the harvest time comes, should the land owned must have the requirements of growing ginger plants. For example, consider the level of acidity of the soil that will be used for planting, if we will be using ginger plants, we should be able to use lime to increase and reduce the acidity of the soil.
When initiating the processing of planting media, we can hijack the land to be used by using the hoe, cangkulah land that will be used as deep as more than 30 cm, the use is to have a loose soil, otherwise when we do soil we will also throw racung which settles in the ground and we will also kill germs, pests, and sugars when they are exposed to the sun's rays.
If the soil is still not visible loose, we can do the second burst with a range of time 2 - 3 weeks before the planting of ginger plants. At the same time we can also provide manure on the land that is being done melting.
Form a bed if the area used for planting has a fairly bad ground water circulation, other than that the bed will also serve as a formation of water flow so that water does not pool in a place the same. Make a bed with a height of about 20-30 cm with a width of 80-100 cm, for the length of the bed we will adjust to the land owned or land to be used for planting.
Ginger Growing Technique
After doing the preparation of the land to be used to plant ginger, the next thing to do is planting from the ginger itself. Do the pattern of planting in monoculture if the area of land used to plant is rational, it can be able to produce high ginger production.
But if in an area done monoculture planting pattern will also be able to produce ginger plants are classified as unhealthy so that will only bring harm to ourselves. Therefore, the pattern of planting with the intercropping type with other types of crops will gain more profit if the area does not have the rationalest land.
Make a planting hole that will be used as a place to plant the ginger with the size into about 3 - 7.5 cm. In the area of land that made the planting hole, make sure the planting hole is in the area of the bed. For the way of planting can only by put the seeds of rhizomes fall into the planting hole that has been made before.
Planting period required ginger plants suitable to do adlaah around the beginning of the rainy season, which is around in September and October. This is because the newly planted ginger plant is expected to always have enough water to do the growth process itself.
Sprinkling
Because the plants have been planted, we should determine when to do watering. Basically, the ginger plant itself is not a plant that requires a lot of water, but still do planting at the beginning of the rainy season itself because it is useful for early growth of ginger plants. When the weather conditions are not too
Keep in mind the ground coding too, for watering should be done once a day so the ground is not too dry.
Embroidery
Within 2 - 3 weeks after planting the plants, it is better to lit the stitching of plants that have died or have abnormal growth.
Embroidering should be replaced quickly so that the changing plants have a time interval of planting that is not too far away with other plants, then as a substitute for the damaged plants should be done the selection of seeds that are really good for ginger plants are grown properly.
Weeding
Within 2 - 4 weeks after the planting of ginger plants, the best thing to do is to weed. However, to do the weeding should be done also depends on weed plants that have grown around the planting of planted ginger.
Then, the second weeding continued when entering the age of 3-6 weeks. And if the age of ginger plants that have been planted about 6 - 7 months, we do not need to do further weeding because planted ginger has a large rhizome. The way to do this weeding is by cleaning the weeds that are around the plant being planted.
Spouting
Because this ginger plant itself is a plant that requires air circulation and good water, therefore the land used to plant should always be loose. Another purpose of this spraying itself is to make a hoarding of ginger rhizome that grows out of the ground.
If when the rhizomes appear when the planting time is still fairly young, we just need to dig a little ground around the rhizome and cover it. Then when entering the next months, we make the rhizomes for the deeper and widened again pengemburannya to form irrigation systems that can do watering if the plants have a lot of water.
To perform the first spraying can be done when the age of ginger plant has 3-4 pseudo stems that have grown. Usually this spraying is done as much as 2-3 times in one period of planting ginger. But this again depends on the condition of the soil used as a growing medium when planting ginger crops.
Fertilization
Patches by using organic fertilizer is highly recommended on every plant that is diarawat because in order to avoid chemicals mixed to the plants that are treated. Therefore, by using compost or cage manure is one of the best choice if you want to do organic fertilization.
Provision of organic fertilizer is actually can be done when at the beginning of planting the plant itself. Provision of fertilizer is enough to provide sprinkling fertilizer in the planting area that has been determined with the dose of fertilizer that has been suggested as well.
Usually, further fertilization in the ginger plants itself is done when entering the age of 2-3 months, the third at 4-6 months, and last month to 8-10 from the beginning of how to grow ginger.
Giving of Pesticides
If ginger plants are exposed to attacks from pests and parasites that interfere with ginger plants itself, we should do pesticides as a treatment to avoid the failure of harvesting on ginger plants. Provision of pesticides can be done by spraying and begins when saving seeds are being done seeding.
We recommend that if we do spraying on ginger plants at the time of maintenance we can mix pesticides with some other liquid like liquid organic fertilizer or by using vitamins that will be useful to improve the growth of the plant ginger being treated itself.
Harvest Period
Harvesting is a process most commonly awaited by farmers. But in planting ginger, the harvesting process can be divided into several types of plants. If the planted ginger will be used as a seasoning flavor in cooking, then we can plant ginger only about 4 months by way of we rendering of the rhizome and the rest of the other rhizomes will be silenced to old.
If we want to make ginger plants to be sold in the market, we can let the ginger plants around the age of 10-12 months. The characteristics of the ginger plants that are ready for harvesting are when the leaf color of the ginger plant itself has changed color, ie when it was originally green it is now a yellow color and on the stem of the ginger plant it also dries too.
The recommended way of harvesting is to dismantle the soil used by a tool such as a fork. Keep cultivated so that the ginger rhizome does not occur damage that causes injury. Then clean the ginger that has been taken with the help of water. Finally, we can dry it by using a banana board or leaf in a period of about 1 week. Preferably, when doing the storage itself we must keep the temperature is not lebab and the accumulation of ginger-ginger should spread and should not rise.
Usually harvesting will be done before the rainy season comes, which is around June - August. Usually on the harvest itself will be marked the top of the used soil will be seen to dry up. However, keep in mind that if we can not harvest when the dry season is over, we can harvest in the next dry season.
Because if we do the harvest in the rainy season will endanger the rhizomes because it will be more vulnerable to damage and reduce the quality of the rhizomes that are still in the soil.
Growing Ginger In Pot
Here is how to grow ginger in pots to grow quickly:
- Prepare the planting media filled into pots in the form of soil, sand and organic fertilizer with a comparison of 1: 1: 1.
- Choosing superior seeds by looking at the brightness of the color no injuries to the rhizomes, old age, and the absence of disease.
- Submit by putting ginger plant on top straw which is then covered with straw again.
- Move the ginger plants in the straw to the planting medium when it is ready to do the displacement.
- Do watering by using water that will be done every day in the afternoon starting from the first day of planting up to 0 - 3 months at the time of planting.
- Give organic fertilizer with 1/5 dosage of planting medium.
- When the age of ginger reaches 12 months, ginger is ready to be harvested.
If you have read well this article surely you can not wait to practice planting ginger, so let alone let's gardening.