that the producers of dates are only the Middle East countries is not wrong, because the plant that has the Latin name Phoeneix dactylifera since early 4000 BC has indeed been cultivated by nations in the Middle East since the time of Mesopotamia until the prehistoric times of Egypt. There is even archaeological evidence to suggest that in the year 6000 BC cultivation dates in the Eastern Arab world were done.
the Arab nations indeed spread the date palms in the northern regions of Africa, Italy, Spain, in the South and Southwest of Asia, also to California and Mexico. Some of these countries are capable of producing date palms, but because the cultivation of dates is not their agricultural tradition, making their date palm production is still difficult to match the countries in the Middle East, both in terms of quantity and quality.
Along with the advancing agricultural technology, the cultivation of dates has been done in Indonesia, and proved by intensive cultivation system, palm trees grown in Indonesia can produce fruit. When compared with dates produced by Middle Eastern countries, dates from trees planted in Indonesia, the quality is still lost. However, Indonesian dates are worth selling. That is, the assumption that has been growing that the date palm planted in Indonesia can not bear fruit, can be ignored.
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because the climate of Indonesia is indeed much different from the climate where the date palm trees come from, a number of special treatment should be given, so that palm trees grown in Indonesia can bear fruit. The difference is on the side of the air temperature in Indonesia only about 33OC while in the Middle East reached 40OC - 50OC. So also with rainfall, if the Middle East rarely happens rain, while in Indonesia often. In fact, to ripen the date palm fruit is needed enough sunlight. Special treatment or some things that must be considered when doing the cultivation of dates in Indonesia to be fruitful of them are:
1dates of the Type that are confirmed to grow well in Indonesia. Because of the dozens of existing date palm cultivars, not all are suitable for planting in Indonesia. Some of the palm cultivars that can be planted in Indonesia and can bear fruit are: ajwa, lulu, amir, and prophet.
For every 25 female date palm trees, plant one date palm tree.
Use female date palm seeds from a good quality parent plant.
When the date palms are mature and ready to mate, do artificial pollination by tying male flowers and female flowers or by threshing pollen of male flowers into female flowers.
When the date palm trees bear fruit, provide adequate nutrient intake by providing fertilizer, watering enough and avoid bird and fly disturbances.
Make thinning by pruning fruit that is too small and leaves a large fruit, so that large fruit can grow well and become bigger.
With regard to some of the above, the palm tree will grow well, bears fruit, and the fruit has decent quality to sell, even though the date palm is grown in Aceh.
The following is quoted from Laman organikilo.co, in the article How to Grow Tree from Dates Seeds
Steps to grow palm seeds based on organic experience of organicilo.co include:
1 - Preparation of Seed Type
2 - Clean up the remains of the sticky flesh
3 - Soaking / Soaking
4 - Germination Process
5 - Transfer of seeds
PREPARATION OF KURMA SEEDS
To prepare the date palm to be grown, as described above you can buy dates on the market or by importing seeds / seed dates. Better to plant date palms that have high selling value either fruit or tree such as: Ajwa, Medjool, Zahidi, Deglet nour and Khalas. According to some literature on foreign date palm forums, the palm tree has good fruit and tree prices.
CLEANING SEEDS OF KURMA FROM REST-ORDER FRUIT
Cleaning the date palm from the remains of the meat is very important, this way is done to obtain percentage% high germination power. The remnants of the flesh that stick to the seeds can cause the growth of fungi, or can invite ants and white lice to eat and damage the seeds before germinating. The experience we have ever experienced is the growth of mushrooms on date palm seeds and the damage of the seeds due to eating black ants before the seeds could germinate.
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The best way to clean the date palm from the remains of the meat is to wash it with water and fine sand, until the seed condition is completely clean from the remains of the flesh.
RESERVATION / MENGENDAM SEEDS
After the date palm is washed, the next step is to soak or soak the seeds using clean water (admin using mineral water in the packaging) up to 5 x 24 hours. Water to soak the date palm every 24 hours should be replaced with new water, to speed up the process of seed germination on the fourth day should use water mixture and ZPT (Organic Growth Regulatory) according to the dosage.
Soak Ajwa & Deglet dates into clean water
To reduce the level of failure in seed germination, should avoid using water sourced from PDAM, this is because the water is channeled by the taps contain chlorine content and less precise for seed germination process. Use uncontaminated well water or best use Mineral Water in packaging.
PROCESS PERKECAMBAHAN SEJAH
At the stage or germination process you can do with two methods, namely seed seed that has passed the step of soaking 5 days before, can be sowing directly on the pot using a mixture of cocopeat and sand in a thin cap using cocopeat. Or seeds grown / dikecambahkan roots first using a container / tupperware coated wet tissue on the bottom then close tightly and store in a dark place.
Seed palm seeds in pots with cocopeat
The process of germination using this wet tissue usually takes 2-4 weeks, after growing with a new root 5-10 cm roots in the move to the media plants, whether using a pot or polybag. But the way that admins use now is sowing directly seeds that have been soaked using pots, without going through the germination process first, after growing a new leaf moving process in polybags.
PLANT MEDIA FOR KURMA BIBITS
Mixture of planting medium for date palm seeds should use materials that have a nice porosity, meaning that the media to plant date palms when watered then the water immediately fell entirely. Mixture of planting media using Sand, Compost (bokashi), cocopeat and rice husk charcoal, but the mixture is not raw You can use other ingredients that
