Ginger is a commodity that can generate huge profits. Because ginger is a favorite by many because of a variety of properties that exist therein. Cultivate ginger can be an alternative income for those who like berbercocok planting. According to farmers, especially ginger red ginger, cultivation will be easier and produce more ginger when cultivated in the sack.
With this sack media other than the result will be greater, the harvest period will be shorter. When planted in the soil eat the harvest period will reach one year, whereas when planted in polybek can be harvested within eight months.
Here are ways you can do to cultivate ginger.
1. Preparation of seed
Ginger plant seeds can be taken from the garden. But make sure that the seed used is ginger that is still intact in terms of ginger is not scratched or injured. Seeds are then dried ginger in advance but not till dry. Furthermore mushroom seeds stored at room temperature for approximately one and a half months.
2. Treatment of seeds
Take the seeds that have been saved and then break with the ginger hands. Each piece has a 3-5 buds. Fault further drying ginger 1 day. The next day, the pieces included container / basket with holes / burlap sack and then dipped in a solution of fungicides and growth regulators about 1-2 minutes, then drain.
3. Growing Media
Media that can be used for planting ginger is manure, fine sand, husk fuel / ash, soil, specifically for the provision of dolomite and NPK: 1% of all mix and MOL (stater microbes). These ingredients were then mixed evenly and then cover with plastic, every morning during 7-15 days of growing media stir remember after finishing the plastic lid back.
4. Investment Process
In cultivation we need to prepare poly bag or sack as a place of investment. Fold the sack earlier in the planting medium and then enter then mixed with compost. Select good quality seeds and neat layout in seedbed later on the beds put up a one and a half meters tall paranet as a shade.
