How to Plant a Strawberry Plant With Hydroponics

Strawberry is a subtropical plant. Strawberry still can grow well in tropical climates. Tropical climate that is good for crops of strawberries, among others: the area with rainfall of 600-700 mm / year, duration of solar radiation that is required is 8-10 hours, the temperature is 17-20 degrees Celsius, humidity 80-90%. To meet the climate suitable strawberries grown in the highlands 1000-1500 dpal. How to strawberries grown in the lowlands? Can it grow?

Beautiful strawberry appearance always tempting. In the exhibition KOI 2013, one of the booths there that sell strawberries with a charming appearance; rosy and great-great. The seller also sells strawberry plants, the pot dihargari Rp. 50.000, -. According to the seller strawberries cultivated in Garut at an altitude of 1500 dpal. Actually, I was rather tempted to buy the plants, but on reflection, I live in lowland Bogor 160 dpal. Intention to buy the plants I undo. I prefer to buy fruit.

Seed

Strawberry seeds located outside, in the form of small spots on his body. Idly I congkelin the seeds with a small knife. The seeds I soak, I spread above the sink cocopeat. It turns out that many of the seeds, none have grown. Already passable pegel prying hands, it has not produced results.

But, wait a minute. Apparently there are growing from the other ports. It turns out that my pulp waste water infusion pot to grow strawberry guava tree. Infusion of water that I created consists of 7 pieces of thinly sliced strawberries, 2 slices of lemon and mint leaves sliced 5 rude inserted into 1.2 liters of water. Then let stand in the refrigerator for 10 hours, could only drink fresh water and turn red color of strawberries. Perhaps because seeds from the pulp of strawberries infusion has undergone soaking water and stored in a cool, then the seed can grow.

seed Strawberry

Strawberry plants in pots guava tree is getting bigger, but I do not have time to move. She thought, too, "if moved to die not well?". The plan will be my planting strawberries with hydroponics system. With 100% cocopeat media. Cocopeat is a powder of coconut shell which is usually available in the farm shop.

Strawberry hidroponik media cocopeat

After all the materials needed are available, it is time to move to a new home strawberry, pots with cocopeat media. Strawbery taken out on the land, so that the roots are not damaged, then wash the roots of soil attached, then transferred to media cocopeat. Then the routine flushing of nutrients hydroponics AB mic for every day leaves 500 ml, with concentrations of standard (5 ml A + B + 5 ml of 1 liter of water). After a few months (about 2.5 - 3 months), strawberries begin flowering. At the start of flowering hydroponic nutrient dressing for fruit (I use the nutrition of tomato) with a standard dose (5 ml 5 ml A + B + 1 liter of water). It turns out that strawberries can grow and bear fruit in the lowlands 160 dpal Bogor. However, it should be noted that his results are not as big as in the highlands. According to experts, hydroponic Jos Sutiyoso, planting strawberries hydroponically in lowland still promising, because the market demand is still high, for example, to make jam.