How To Pruning The Rubber Plant Branch

Branching the Rubber Plant - At the young rubber plants often found growing crops raised without establishing a branch. Pruning rubber plant different from coffee plants pruning. Plants with this growth slow growth of the stem so too late to reach a mature tapping, otherwise it the edges easily twisted by the wind, the consequences will grow shoots in contiguous branches, so that the canopy is formed to be asymmetrical. Circumstances such as these branches would be very dangerous because the branches break easily when hit by high winds. Some clones are in the early growth tends to slow rising and branching, including the clones GT 1 and RRIM 600. Induction of branching in addition to modify the shape of the plant canopy also aims to accelerate the growth of plant girth.

Branch of the desired height is generally 2.5-3 m from the linkage grafting. For those clones that slow growth and new branches are formed on the height of three meters, it is necessary to accelerate the establishment of a branch stimulation for the plant canopy is formed faster. There are several methods of induction of branching, but the method is often done as follows: Clipping, folding, stem decapitation (topping).

a. Clipping
Most of the leaf blade at the top of the umbrella is quite old (1.5 to 2 years old) cut to the petiole, leaving only 3-4 leaf blade is located at the end of the course. Two-three weeks later bud branches will grow. Maintain branch of storey, so that the plants more resistant to high winds danserangan poison mushrooms. This leaves the way abortion is less efficient, because the branches are formed only very little and only 55% success rate only.

b.  Folding
Leaf umbrella on top of old plants aged 1.5 - 2 years tied with string or rubber like bun. When the buds begin to grow ties branches should be removed. If not removed will cause the death of the leaves of the umbrella top.

c. Beheading trunk / Topping
Be headings in the trunk made from 2.5 to 3 m height a little over a collection of eye. Beheading was carried out at 2-3 year-old young plants, which at the time the plant has reached about five feet high. Execution carried out at the beginning of the rainy season. Plants are plants which can be cut at least three meters high is the stem is brown. The tools used in the be headings were wood saws, pull saws, and should be used. Slices should be tilted toward the saw, should not be leveled. Wound rubber beheaded at the desired height, 2-4 weeks later, the shoots begin to grow, usually more than 10 shoots. Would benefit from thinning shoots.

Establishment of branches by way of beheading rods to work well and fairly efficient. But the drawback is susceptible to fungal disease resistant to poison and no wind, because the branches were piled on the former fragment. To reduce damage caused by wind and fungal poison, branches should be thinned to a spacing of three branches are formed so that the canopy and can grow strong and sturdy. Further efforts to reduce wind damage can be done at the time of decapitation already entered the phase of generating plants.

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