Planting And Care For Aloe Vera Plant

Aloe vera plant have many benefits one of which is for hair care. Planting and care for aloe vera in the home garden can be one good option.

How To Plant Aloe Vera ?

Seeding Aloe Vera:

Seedlings that have been quite large, about 1-2 months old, separated from the parent plant (breeding). Puppies will come from the parent plant at the age of 5-6 months. Spacing is very important puppies for aloe vera plant can grow large.

Nursery of saplings can be done in bed or in polybags. Nursery beds can be done by creating a raised bed measuring 1-1.5 mx 10 m or as required by the spacing of 10 cm x 10 cm. Bed should be completely crumbs to root growth of seedlings is not compromised. Seedling roots caused by impaired development of the hard ground will not grow. Before planting seeds, sown beds of manure as much as 20-40 kg (1-2 bags) per plot and stir evenly. Sowing of agricultural lime is recommended to reduce fungal attack. The addition of urea as much as 7.5 kg per plot can be done to stimulate the growth of seedlings.

While the nursery in polybags, soil media can be done with manure mixed 1: 1 or 1: 2 and 5 grams of added NPK per polybags every two weeks. After that polybags put in place a fairly quiet, but still exposed to sunlight.

At the beginning of the breeding stage where water needs must be considered. Seedlings may be reddish in color because it has not adapted to the environment. With adequate irrigation, a week after seeding, the seedlings will show normal growth / recover from environmental stress due to separation from the parent. Excessive irrigation should be avoided because of the seeds easily rot due to fungus attack in humid circumstances. Seedlings are attacked by fungi should be disposed of so as not contagious and surrounding land disposed.

Plant aloe vera in the garden:

Seedlings are ready to be planted after the age of about one month (one month after breeding). Seedlings planted in the planting hole that has been given of about 1.5 kg of manure per planting hole or around 20 to 30 tons per hectare. Spacing used 80 cm x 80 cm or 80 cm x 70 cm in a zig-zag. Basal fertilizer used was 10 g urea, 8 g SP-36 and 9 g of KCl per plant hole. Fertilizer every 3 months follow-up done as much as 10 g of urea and 9 g of KCl. maintenance:

Stitching in the land after the crop was 1-2 MST (weeks after planting), namely by replacing plants that die or are less well with the growth of new plants. Weeding (weed clearance) is done as needed, ie when the weeds start growing a lot and disturb the plants. Weeding the aloe plant is very important because the rapid growth of weeds which tend to disturb and plants.

Caring for aloe vera from pests and diseases:

Pests that attack relatively little aloe vera. Sometimes caterpillars or grasshoppers attack the leaves of aloe vera. In the moist condition often encountered pest that attacks the roots and stems of aloe vera, especially when breeding. While the disease affecting mainly due to wet rot fungi / bacteria on the leaves. Spraying pesticides only when pests and diseases is quite disturbing.

Those are some tips for planting and caring for aloe vera plant, this plant is fairly easy in care because not many pests are often found attacking this plant. We hope this article useful for you who want to cultivate aloe vera.