Maintaining and care for banana trees are guaranteed to generate good bananas and delicious. There are several things to take care for banana plants that we will discuss in this article.
Care For Banana Plants
- One family only 3-4 banana trees.
- Cutting the child do so in a clump of saplings that are each different age (growth phase).
- After 5 years of the new plant replaced groves dismantled.
- Weeding is done in conjunction with tilling the soil and hoarding.
- Weeding and tilling should not be too deep.
- Cut the dried leaves.
- Water should be maintained. By flushing or filling drainage ditches.
- Put mulch in the form of dry or wet leaves. But the mulch should not be placed continuously.
Care For Banana Fruit
- Cut the banana that was within 25 cm of the last pieces of the comb.
- After a perfect fluffy banana combs, bunches of bananas wrapped in clear plastic bags polyethylene 0.5 mm thick, a hole diameter of 1.25 cm. The distance of each hole 7.5 cm. Keep the bag cover 15 -45 cm above the base of the comb top and 25 cm below the bottom end of the fruit from the comb.
- Propped up by bamboo plant stem is buried as deep as 30 cm into the soil.
Pests and Diseases Controlling
1. Pest
a. Caterpillar leaves (Thrax Erienota.)
Attack the leaves. Symptoms: The leaf sheaths and roll up like a leaf torn to the bone.
b. Uret weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus)
Petals attack leaves, stems. Symptoms: the halls of the up / down in the sepals, the hall full of banana stem. Control: banana grove sanitation, clean the remaining clumps of banana trees, use PESTONA.
c. Nematodes (Rotulenchus similis, Radopholus similis)
Attacking the roots. Symptoms: The plants looked miserable, to form a cavity or small spots on the roots, root swelling. Control: use of resistant seed, increase humus soil and land use with little clay content.
d. Flower caterpillars and fruit (Nacoleila octasema.)
Attacking flowers and fruit. Symptoms: abnormal growth of fruit, fruit peel mangy. The existence of at least 70 tail caterpillars in bunches of bananas.
2. Disease
a. Blood diseases
Cause: Xanthomonas celebensis (bacteria). Invade the inner tissues of plants. Symptoms: The network becomes reddish as bloody. Control: Delivery of Natural GLIO before planting, and dismantle and burn diseased plants.
b. Panama
Cause: The fungus Fusarium oxysporum. Attack the leaves. Symptoms: The leaves wither and drop, first outside and the inside of the leaf, the leaf midrib split lengthwise, black out the sap vessels. Control: Delivery of Natural GLIO before planting, dismantle and burn diseased plants.
c. Leaf spots
Cause: The fungus Cercospora musae. Attack leaves with brown spots symptoms are more widespread. Natural Control :: Giving GLIO before planting.
d. Withered
Cause: The bacterium Bacillus sp. attacking the roots. Symptoms: plants wither and die. Control: unpack and burn the diseased plants, plant early GLIO Natural
e. Leaf buds
Cause: virus by aphids Pentalonia nigronervosa intermediaries. Attacked leaf shoots. Symptoms: The leaves grow upright shoots in groups. Control: Controlling aphids with Natural BVR, dismantle and burn diseased plants.
Those are some tips that can be used to care for banana plants, hopefully with this article you can produce high-quality bananas in banana cultivation
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