Red ginger cultivation is one to take advantage of vacant land. If all the people want to use the empty land to be planted "live pharmacies" maybe people do not need to bother anymore to find medicinal plants.

Utilizing the empty space in the neighborhood is not difficult, you can use polybag or pots filled with planting media so that can be used to grow medicinal plants. One of the medicinal plants that you can plant is red ginger, in addition to having many benefits of red ginger plants also have a high selling value.

Red ginger cultivation in sacks or planting ginger with bag culture system is usually done for several reasons. The first is due to limited land or lack of good land for cultivation of ginger. In addition, the cultivation of ginger in the sack makes the seeds in the park healthy and free from bacterial diseases that cause leaves wither. So it can improve the results of red ginger cultivation. Ginger cultivation system in this sack is very environmentally friendly and can also be done on a narrow land.

How to Cultivate Red Ginger In Bags

How to grow red ginger is not too difficult, you simply cultivate this plant on the sidelines of the main crop (fruit, coffee, cocoa, sengon, etc.). As for the media planting itself can use sacks, polybags, glangsing that has filled the ground or bokashi. By doing simple maintenance that is doing periodical fertilization with bokashi and also SOT HCS which is sprayed or watered on seeds planted.

For spraying using SOT HCS enough done 2 weeks, while the addition of bokashi done as the growth of shoots of ginger seeds until polybag filled with a height of about 80%.

After the plybag is filled with bokashi and so the land must be done to stay care until the harvest time arrives. Usually harvest time between 10 to 12 months. If interested to cultivate this plant, you can follow the steps to plant red ginger in the following sack.

Red Ginger Breeding Process

Actually the easiest in the cultivation of this ginger you can buy ginger seeds that are ready to plant or have sprouted about 5-10 cm. But if it is difficult to get the seeds of shoots you can sow the seeds of this ginger itself at home. There are several ways you can use to sow ginger seeds one of which is seeding ginger in a wooden box.

How to seed ginger can be done by selecting the newly harvested ginger rhizome and then dried in the temporary and stored for one to two months. Break the ginger rhizome by hand, where each piece has three to five shoots and then dried again for one day.

Before sowing ginger seeds should be sterilized from viral diseases. Cleaning of the virus can be done by dipping the seeds that have been packed in the sack earlier into the PHEFOC HCS for 5 minutes then dry. After the will dried seeds soak again using SOT HCS growth regulator for four hours. After finished soaked the drainage of the seeds until dry, the seeds are ready to be seeded.

How to Grow Red Ginger In Sacks

Take the seedlings that have been made and then break the ginger rhizome using the hand into 2-3 segments where each segment there are at least 2 eyes buds. After that make a mixture of ground with bokashi with a ratio of 3: 1. Put the mixture of soil and bokashi into polybag or sack with a height of 15 cm. If you use a sack, adjust the height of the sack by folding the top of the sack to get the appropriate height. Then input shoots ginger seeds into polybag or sack that has filled the mixture of soil and bokashi. In one sack filled enough about 2-3 point planting so that the results obtained maximum.

How to Care and Fertilization

For the treatment of this plant is quite easy. For treatment you can water it at least once a day, but if the hot weather should do watering twice a day. If ginger age has reached 2-4 weeks do leakage by using SOT HCS fermentation.

Repeat sacking or polybag with a mixture of soil and bokashi (3: 1) when the ginger is 2-3 months old or if the ginger rhizome has been seen sticking out. Perform this process repeatedly with attention to the growth of ginger until the age of 8 months or until polybag or sack is fully charged.

By using this simple technique you can get abundant crops, sacks or polybags that you use to grow the ginger will be filled with ginger rhizome. There are even some farmers who harvest ginger every single sack contains about 20 kg of ginger. woow awesome is not it? If the steps above you have been through for 8-10 months, it's time you harvest the results from the cultivation of red ginger.