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How to Cultivate Mangosteen Fruit

information about how the mangosteen cultivation can be found here. Mangosteen fruit is one fruit that comes from peninsular Malaysia. But there the fruit is not as good as mangosteen in West Sumatra. Maggis fruit from West Sumatra is a Super mangosteen fruit that is exported to various parts of the World. This one fruit is also the center of the source of Germplasm in East Kalimantan and Malaysia.

The fruit that has the Latin name Garcinia Mangostana comes from the family Guttiferae. mangosteen cultivation technique is very suitable to be done in a place that is in the lowland to up to 600 m asl which has a good wet climate. This one plant is also suitable to be planted in places with temperatures 20 to 30 degrees Celsius. Ph owned by the land should also range from 5 to 7.



The Process of Mangosteen Fruit Planting

Here is how to plant from the mangosteen fruit. This one plant will usually begin to bear fruit at the age of about 8 to 15 years. The planting process can use the method enten. how to plant this one is usually referred to as a bud jump. For the top stem, should be done seeding on the mangosteen fruit that is 1 to 2 years old. Vegetative seeds in this plant will begin to bear fruit at the age that has reached 5 to 6 years. To do multiplication of plants on the mangosteen fruit can be done by doing the grafting process.

Taking into account the planting of mangosteen trees is also necessary because the leaves of this fruit are very sensitive to direct sunlight. Therefore, the mangosteen plant will be better planted in areas with a humid climate up to a somewhat dry climate. This mangosteen plant will also be able to live as long as the ground water is rather shallow and suitable for a wet climate.

Keep in mind also that the newly transferred seeds in the garden should also be given a shade which will serve to make the growth better. If not the development of this fruit will be more difficult and the leaves will burn due to direct sunlight. In addition to using grafting, you can also use tissue culture to perform this mangosteen planting.

Fertilization and Harvesting Mangosteen Fruit
Mangosteen fruit plants should be planted before the rainy season in holes measuring 60 cm x 60 cm x 50 cm. Taking into account the spacing for each mangosteen fruit should also be considered. Fertilizer which will be used to fertilize this plant is manure that has been finished and spread to 20 kg for each hole.

Growing seedlings also should not be left alone. The skewed seedlings should be fitted with enforcement milestones. While the newly transferred seeds - as described above - should be given shade in the form of coconut leaves and also leaves of straw.

The nursery process for this mangosteen fruit should also be done during the productive season for them. Artificial fertilizer which later diguanakan to help the process of breeding the sooner to give results is 60 grams + 50 grams TSP + 25 grams of KCl for each tree.

This fertilization is given 4 times with a lapse of 3 months once in the first year of this mangosteen fruit growth. At the time of harvest, you can pick the mangosteen fruit whose color is already blackish red. Age of the fruit also must be at least 120 days after the flowers from this mangosteen tree blooms.

The fruit must also be harvested one by one. Transporting harvested mangosteen must also be careful. Because this can cause bruises and brown color on the fruit.