Eggplant

INTRODUCTION
Prospects eggplant cultivation the better to intensively managed and commercially-scale agribusiness, but the average is still low. This is due to a culture that still sideline farming, inadequate information farming techniques at farm level.
PT. Natural Nusantara strive to provide alternatives solutions how eggplant cultivation techniques in order to reach an increase in production in K-3, namely quantity, quality and environmental sustainability.

GROWING CONDITIONS
- Can be grown in lowland high
- Air temperature 22 - 30o C
- The best type of soil, sandy loam type, fertile, rich in organic matter, aeration and good drainage and pH between 6.8 to 7.3
- The sun should be enough
- Suitable planted drought

SEEDLINGS
- Soak seeds in lukewarm water + NASA POC dose of 2 cc per liter for 10 -15 minutes
- Wrap the seeds in a damp cloth rolls for brooded over + 24 hours to appear began to germinate
- Spread the seeds on nursery beds in rows, spacing between rows 10-15 cm
- Mix 1 pack of Natural GLIO + 25-30 kg of manure a week let stand a fine, then enter the seeds one by one into polybags which already contain a mixture of fine soil and manure that has been mixed with a ratio of Natural GLIO 2: 1
- Cover the seeds with a thin soil
- The surface of beds that have been sowing the seeds covered with banana leaves
- Once the seeds seem to germinate appear, open the lid
- Flush the morning and afternoon nursery
- NASA POC Spray dosage 2-3 caps per tank every 7-10 days
- Notice of pests and diseases since the nursery
- 1 to 1.5 month-old seedlings or leaves four strands ready dipindahtanamkan

PROCESSING AREA
- Clean the weeds (weeds) out of the garden
- Sports ground with a hoe or plow as deep as 30-40 cm until friable
- Create a raised bed width 100-120 cm, 40-60 cm spacing between beds, smooth the surface of the beds
- If the soil pH is low, add Dolomite
- Spread the manure 15-20 tonnes / ha, mix evenly with the soil. It would be optimal if coupled SUPERNASA or if no manure can be substituted SUPERNASA 10-20 bottles / ha by the way:
Alternative 1: one bottle SUPERNASA diluted in 3 liters of water used as mother liquor. Then every 50 liters of water were given 200 cc of mother liquor to water the beds
Alternative 2: every one yells volume of 10 liters of water was given a spoon to eat SUPERNASA pressed to flush the + 10 m bed

- Spread the base with a mix of ZA fertilizer or urea 150 kg + 250 kg TSP per hectare mixed with the soil evenly or approximately 10 grams of a mixture of manure per planting hole
- Spread the Natural GLIO 1-2 sachets which have 25-50 kg of manure mixed evenly into the bed or into the planting hole
- If you use plastic mulch, cover the beds during the day
- Allow for a week before planting
- Make the planting hole with a distance of 60x70 cm / 70x70 cm

PLANTING
- When planting a good dry season
- Choose a seed that grows lush and normal
- Plant seeds in the planting hole is straight and compacted soil around the stem
- Flush the planting hole that has been planted up quite wet (humid)

Irrigation
Done routinely every day, especially in the early phase of growth and dry weather, can be in-leb or doused with yells

Stitching
- Sulam plants whose growth is abnormal, dead or attacked by pests and diseases
- Stitching a maximum age of 15 days

FITTING stake (stake)
- Apply as early as possible so as not to disrupt (destroy) the root system
- Made of bamboo stake as high as 80-100 cm and 2-4 cm wide
- Plug the individual near the stem
- Tie the stem or branch of eggplant on a pillar

Weeding
- Wild grass or weeds around the plants weeded or revoked
- Weeding done at the age of 15 days and 60-75 days after planting

Fertilization
The type and dose of fertilizer Macro adjusted soil type, varieties and conditions of the region according to reference the local agricultural bureau. Here's one alternative:
Type of Fertilizer

Following on Fertilization (kg / ha)
Age 15 days

Age 25 days

Age 35 days

Age 45 days
Urea

75

75

75

75
SP-36

50

-

-

-
KCl

-

75

100

75

Fertilization is placed as far as 20 cm of plant stems as much as 10 grams of a mixture of fertilizer per plant to drill or bolt closed and watered soil or fertilizer dikocorkan of 3.5 grams per liter of water, fertilizer solution kocorkan as much as 250 cc per plant
Spray 3-4 cap NASA POC HORMONIK + 1 cap per tank every 1-2 weeks

Pruning (PEREMPELAN)
Prune shoots that grow wild from the first axillary leaf until the first flowers are also dirempel order to stimulate new shoots and flowers are more productive soon grow

PEST CONTROL DISEASE

H A M A
1. Leaf beetles (Epilachna spp.)
Symptoms of the bite marks on the lower leaf surface
If severe attacks can damage all the leaf tissues and bones of living leaves only
Control measures; collect and destroy the beetles, set the time of planting, prevention with PESTONA or pentane + AERO 810 every 1-2 weeks.

2. Leaf louse (Aphis spp.)
Attacked by sucking fluid cells, especially in the shoots or young leaves
Leaves are not normal, wrinkled or curly or curled
As an intermediary vector or viral
How to control; set the time of planting and crop rotation, preventing spray pentane + Natural BVR AERO 810 or once every 1-2 weeks.

3.Tungau (Tetranynichus spp.)
Onslaught of the dry season.
Attacked by sucking liquids plant cells, causing symptoms of hives until brown or black on the upper leaf surface or the bottom.
How to control the same as in Dalian want aphids.

4. Caterpillars Land (Agrotis Ipsilon Hufn.)
Polifag nature, dusk or night active
Attack by cutting the growing point of young plants, so limp and collapsed
Control measures; collect and destroy the caterpillars, flush or spray PESTONA prevention or pentane + AERO 810.

5.Ulat grayak (Spodoptera litura, F.)
Polifag nature.
Attack by destroying (eating) until the holes in the leaves.
How to control; set the time of planting and crop rotation, with Natural VITURA spray.

6.Ulat Fruit (Helicoverpa armigera Hubn.)
Polifag nature, attacking the fruit by way of biting and drilling holes, so the fruit shape is not normal, and susceptible to black pod disease.
Control measures; collect and destroy infected fruit, do crop rotation and planting time garden sanitation, preventive spray PESTONA or pentane + AERO 810 every 1-2 weeks

DISEASE
1. Bacterial Wilt
Cause: the bacteria Pseudomonas solanacearum
Can live long in the land
Onslaught at high enough temperatures
Symptoms of the attacks occurred throughout the plant suddenly kelayuan

2. Rotten Fruit
Cause: The fungus Phytophthora sp., Phomopsis vexans, Phytium sp.
Symptoms of an attack of wet brown blotches on the fruit so rotten fruit.

3. Leaf spots
Cause: The fungus Cercospora sp, Alternaria solani, Botrytis cinerea
Symptoms patches of gray-brown or black on the leaves.

4. Antraknose
Cause: The fungus Gloesporium melongena
Symptoms patches of curved and rounded on the fruit and then enlarged brown with black dots

5.Busuk Neck roots
Cause: Sclerotium rolfsii
Symptoms of brown stem rot

6.Rebah Semai
Cause: The fungus Rhizoctonia solani and Pythium spp.
Symptoms of stem-basahan kebasah young seedlings, shrink and eventually collapse and die
Disease control measures:
Planting resistant varieties, set the spacing and crop rotation, drainage improvements, set the humidity with a rather wide spacing, remove and dispose of diseased plants Soak the seeds with NASA POC dose of 2 cc / lt + Natural GLIO dose of 1 g / l, Prevention of spread Natural GLIO mixed manure into the planting hole before planting.

Note: If the control of pests and diseases with natural pesticides have not been overcome, as the last alternative could be to use chemical pesticides are recommended. In order to spray more evenly and not easily lost by rainwater add Adhesives Straighten wetting AERO 810 dose of 0.5 bottles per tank cap

HARVESTING
- The first fruit can be picked after the age of 3-4 months depending on the varieties
- The characteristics of the fruit ready for harvest is already the maximum size and still young.
- The best time in the morning or evening.
- How to harvest the fruit along the stems are picked by hand or a sharp instrument.
- Picking the next pieces held regularly once every 3-7 days with how to choose fruit that is ready to be picked.