Soursop cultivation techniques for the highest productivity

Food soursop is rich in minerals, precious thanks: phosphorus, calcium and Vitamin B lot 1, B2, P, C is very delicious sweet and sour taste when making juice and are very popular people.

Larger fruit soursop custard so much, an average of 1-2 kg heavy sometimes even louder, just to distinguish smooth outer zone thanks to lots of other zones each zone has a curved spines, still soft so custard called spikes. If technical know soursop tree planting will give a very high yield.

Breeding

Techniques soursop tree planting is not difficult to get the highest yield

Soursop often propagated by seed, but it can also be planted with large trees were dug up carefully, by extracting branches, grafting and grafting eyes. Can sow seeds in the sky or on slightly sandy soil Phil. Sow seeds 1cm deep and spaced about 2 - 2.5 cm. Particle shading and watering regularly moisturizing. Good seeds can germinate from 85-90% in 20-30 days.

Planting and gap planting

Digging holes measuring 30 - 50 cm, depth 30 - 50cm, depending on size of the plant. If planting trees, the hole must always elect wider than the size of the vote to not force the plant roots. Lap again placing topsoil and watering seedlings moist immediately. Trees should be planted with soursop distance of 3 - 4m crocodile fangs grow style or in rows. So planting distance of 3 x 3 m, some places planting 2.5 x2,5m take advantage of the ground area

Fertilizer

Custard fruit has many uses

NPK fertilizer balances need to choose the type of fertilizer with 10-10-10 fertilizer fertilizers 100g on year 1, year 2 400 g fertilizer, fertilizer 800g 3rd year, 4th year bundle 1.2 kg / tree. When a large tree carbon reducers 2-3 kg / tree / year. If poor soil or sandy soil should add 10-20 kg of compost / tree / year. 2-3 divided doses fertilizers, harvest (late rain) and when the fruit tree farming (first + last season).

Major pests

Major pests: Pests damaging still is the most popular types of mealybugs and other pests sucking mouth, reduce quality and yield. Treated with several drugs such as Supracid, Bi 58ND, Sumithion, Suprathion. Aphids and sucking pests in addition to harming the left, while creating favorable conditions for invading diseases, especially anthracnose causes black spots. Disease control with drugs Benlat C, Kasuran BTN, Aliette 80 BTN