Taxonomy of Potato
- Kingdom : Plantae
- Divisio : Spermatophyta,
- Subdivisio : Angiospermae,
- Class : Dicotyledonae,
- Ordo : Solanales,
- Family : Solanaceae,
- Genus : Solanum
- Species : Solanum tuberosum
Terms Growing Potato
Before you know how to plant and stage of potato cultivation way, you should know in advance the requirements grow these crops. If you have land in accordance with the criteria required for planting potatoes, then you can start planting potatoes today.- Planting potato is suitable to be planted in our country. However, this plant will grow optimally in a cool area, in the highlands, for example.
- Potatoes grown in the lowlands with less cold temperatures will produce small-sized potatoes.
- Potatoes are the types of plants that require moderate rainfall that is 1500 mm per year. Potatoes grow optimally at temperatures between 15-18 degrees Celsius at night and 24-30 degrees Celsius in the daytime. Such temperatures can be obtained in the cool temperate regions such as in the mountains, for example.
- Potato plants should be planted in areas that are not windy. Why is that? Because the wind is less suitable for this kind of tuber crops where wind can easily blow away a variety of viruses and diseases that are harmful to potato crops.
How to planting potatoes
As with any other food crops cultivation, there are several stages of potato cultivation techniques that you should look. Here are some steps on how to plant potatoes:Land preparation
Potatoes are plant species that require fertile soil, loose and berhumus. It is important to remember that the potato harvest will be optimal. To that end, the preparation of land for potato is somewhat different from other plant species. The differences lie there on two things:- Piracy is done twice to create humus rich soil and loose. Treatment offset by hoeing plow that ground really correspond with your expectations. Plowing and hoeing re-done after the hijacking and ground-breaking process is completed over several days.
- The land that will be planted potatoes need plus height. It is not without reason, because the land is intended to elevate the soil is rich in the air. In addition, the elevation is not hard to do because it can be done while plowing and hoeing.
Tips: Do not let you forget to add fertilizer before planting land. This fertilizer can be manure (cow dung), compost (from the rest of the vegetables and plants) and fertilizers so that the soil nutritious and ready for planting.
Potato Breeding
Potato breeding process you can do yourself is by storing the potatoes to sprout in storage for approximately 4 months. However, for those who want to buy seed potatoes, it never hurts to transact at a nearby potato seeds seller. You need to remember to buy potato seedlings are buying a quality potato seeds and healthy. While the physical characteristics of a good seed potato is about the size of a duck egg or chicken eggs by weight of seeds weighing 30-80 grams. For shoots, buds are good for planting shoots 2-3 cm and amounted to 3-5 buds every seed potatoes.
Planting Potatoes
After you prepare the land properly and perform nursery with the right, it's time you start planting seed potatoes by planting the right way. Planting of potatoes is ideally done approximately one week after the land was prepared. Here are some helpful guidelines for you in the technique of planting potatoes:- Grave seedling soil as deep as approximately 8 cm below the soil surface. The soil depth should be ideal, do not let the potatoes buried too deep in the soil.
- Choose a sprout seed potatoes well and put most of the shoots towering above the ground, so it is visible from ground level is only shoots.
- shoots with pesticides with the ideal size of 500 liters of solution per hectare in order to survive the potato crop pests in the early growth period.
Fertilizing Potatoes
This one stage is a stage that is quite complicated but it can be to do. Stage of the potato crop fertilization carried out for 20 days to produce the optimum potato crop.NPK fertilizer is done when the bulbs begin to grow at around 30 days after planting. Then, in phase 40 days after planting, the potatoes return given fertilizer with high HP (available in stores fertilizer). Afterwards, on the 60th day after planting, the potatoes return fertilized with high air-PK and on the 90th day of potatoes supplied fertilizers with high pH back. Besides fertilizing, weeding is also very important to do. Weeds and various animal nuisance to be removed from the potato plants to grow optimally. In addition, efforts continue in order bulbs are in the ground and not exposed to sunlight is very important (so the bulbs are not poisonous). In addition, you need to know that the flowers that grow on potato plants should be immediately disposed of and the provision of water should not be excessive.
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