How to care for the coffee plants is easy and not complicated, coffee plants do not need the maintenance that is too intensive and does not need frequent watering.
Coffee plant is an export commodity that was encouraging because it has a relatively high economic value of the world market, in addition to the coffee plant is one of the leading commodity for tropical countries.
Tips To Care For Coffee Plants
1. Term Growth
- It's isolated from other varieties of coffee plantation about 100 meters.
- Land free of pests and diseases
- Easy to Control
To increase the seed crop in the field needed ready Ducts with the following criteria:
- Source of seed should come from the garden or the parent company which has been designated
- Age of seedlings 8-12 months
- Height 20-40 cm
- The minimum amount of the old leaves 5-7
- Number of primary branches 1
- Diameter of the stem 5-6 cm
- The planting hole should be made three months before planting
- Hole size 50x50x50 cm, 60x60x60 cm, 75x75x75 cm or 1 × 1 m for heavy soils
- Soil excavation is placed at the left and right of the hole
- The hole left open for 3 months
- 2-4 weeks before planting, soil excavation that has been mixed, with manure that cook as much as 15/20 kg / hole, put back into the hole.
- Land not compacted
- Planting is done during the rainy season
- Cervical root seedlings were planted flush with the ground surface
- Weeding can be done together with the tilling ground.
- For mature plants do 2x a year
- Plant shade coffee is needed to keep coffee plants that do not change too much power plants out quickly.
- Protection of trees planted 1-2 years before planting coffee, or the use of cover crops are
- Types of plants for shade trees
a. fertilizer dose of coffee each trees are:
. Age 1 Year: 50 g urea, 40 g tsp, and 40 g pic
. Age 2 Years: 100 g urea, 50 g tsp, and 80 g pic
. Age 3 Years: 150 g urea, tsp 100 g and 100 g pic
. Age 4 Years: 200 g urea, tsp 100 g and 100 g pic
. Age 5-10 Years: 300 g urea, tsp 150 g and 240 g pic
. Age 10 years and over: 500 g urea, tsp 200 g and 320 g pic
b. Fertilizer b given 2 x year ie beginning and end of the rainy season
each half-dose
c. how fertilization by making a circular trench as deep as the tree
approximately 10 cm, with a distance of tree canopy project
(Approximately 1 m)
Those are some ways you can do to cultivate and care of the coffee plant. For good results you must be diligent care for your plants are cultivated. We hope this article useful for you who read it.
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