How To Cultivat California Pepaya, Harvesting Products Can Be Tons Every Week

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YOGYAKARTA Cultivation of pepaya california is an attractive choice for farmers because this type of papaya has many advantages, such as a relatively fast harvest period, sweet taste, high nutrition, and high market demand.

For farmers, this cultivation can provide many benefits. Ppaya plants of california varieties can be harvested after 8-9 months of age.

The tree can bear fruit until the age of four years. In one month, farmers can harvest this fruit up to four times. In one harvest, each tree can produce 2 to 3 pieces with a weight of around 0.8-1.5 kg per fruit.

If you have 1,200 plants in 1 hectare of land, every week you can produce 3.6 tons of california papaya. In the market, this fruit is valued at IDR 12,500-IDR 14,500 per piece.

So, how to cultivate pepaya california? Let's look at the full information below.

Quoted from the website of the Department of Agriculture and Food in Demak Regency, the following are the steps of cultivation of pepaya california that you need to know:

California's papaya seeds can be obtained in three ways, namely from the principal of the fruit, buying directly at agricultural stores, and buying via online shops.

If you want to get the ppaya california seeds directly from the fruit, then choose the seeds from the fruit that are fully ripe.

Related to this, choose the seeds in the middle of the fruit, or just a third of the papaya.

If you have obtained the seeds, follow the steps to seed the pepaya california seeds below:

Before planting seeds, clean the land from wild grass. Next, make a planting hole with a distance between plants of 2.5 m x 2.5 m or 2.5 x 2.75 m. The population of plants per hectare is between 1,450 to 1,600 trees. Holes with a mixture of soil and pukuk cages.

Next, fill a hole with water, and seeds can be directly planted into a plant hole. The most appropriate time to plant the seeds of papaya california is the afternoon.

Ppaya california plant care is not much different from other plants. You just need to water, provide fertilizer, embroider the seeds that die.

The next stage of pepaya california cultivation is fertilization. Related to this, you can use organic or non-organic fertilizers.

The fertilization is done when planting by giving fertilizer or compost with a dose of 40 kg per plant. The burial is carried out again using NPK fertilizer after the seeds are 2 weeks old with a dose of 200 grams per tree.

The fertilization is carried out again with manure and NPK every three months with a dose of 500 grams of NPK per tree + 40 kg of cage fertilizer per tree.

If the plant has been fruitful, it can be added to KCI fertilizer to increase the resilience and sweetness of the fruit.

You can harvest california papaya after 8-9 months of age. This fruit can be harvested if it shows signs of maturity, namely a reddish yellow color on the fruit skin.

Harvesting fruit should be done by cutting fruit stalks with sharp knives or pangkas scissors. Avoid cuts and bonyok, try not to fall.

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