How To Plant Yellow Kopyor Coconut In Dry Season

Yellow Kopyor Coconut Seed

Yellow kopyor coconut is one of the types of hybrid coconut, like other hybrid coconut, yellow coconut has the characteristics of fast fruiting, short-stemmed, and a lot of fruit.

Kopyor coconut is a coconut that has a disorder or commonly referred to as mutants, this disorder occurs genetically and can be passed down to the next generation, this abnormality will make coconut meat not stick to the coconut shell, has a lower coconut water content compared to normal coconut, but flesh that is not attached to this will have a taste more savory and sweeter.

Coconut that has this disorder in the place I live is called Kopyor coconut, in other countries, such as the Philippines, coconut that has a genetic disorder is called "Macapuno" coconut tree, for basic preparations of Kopyor coconut is often also called coconut sports.

Before planting coconuts, especially kopyor coconuts, there are 2 ways you can use them when you are going to make or get seeds.

1. Seed from kopyor coconut but comes from normal coconut

This method can be done by taking old coconuts in a bunch of kopyor coconuts, coconuts that will be used as seedlings in this way are normal coconuts but have kopyor genes, because if you are going to make seeds from kopyor coconuts, you will need complicated techniques and must done in the laboratory.

2. Embryo Culture
Because meat texture in the type of kopyor coconut is not attached to the shell, the meat will not be able to be used as nutrition when the embryo grows. Embryo culture is done by taking embryos in a kopyor coconut, this method is done in a laboratory and must go through a hygienic process.

Making kopyor coconut seeds above each has advantages and disadvantages, namely:

Kopyor coconut seedlings but normal

The advantage of making kopyor coconut seeds but taken from normal kopyor coconuts is how to make them very easily, in kopyor coconuts in a bunch, there will usually be approximately 10-15 coconuts, of which the number will not be all kopyor, maybe there will only be 3 - 5 kopyor grains, the rest are normal coconut but have kopyor genes, and this normal coconut is what we can grow into kopyor coconut seeds, the disadvantage is the low percentage of kopyor coconuts, not up to 50%, if you intend to plant kopyor coconuts as effort, making seeds in this way seems less recommended.

Embryo culture

Making seedlings with embryo culture is one of the advances in agriculture, kopyor coconut embryo culture is done by taking embryos or shoots that are on kopyor coconut and grown in the media in the laboratory, the benefit to be gained from this type of seed is the percentage to become kopyor coconut all in one bunch is very large, which is 95-100%. this type of seed is very suitable to be planted if you want a business as a kopyor coconut farmer. The disadvantage is that not everyone can make seedlings by embryo culture, and also if we want to buy, the price of kopyor coconut seeds with embryo culture is very expensive.

How to grow kopyor yellow coconut

1. Seeds
If you want to plant kopyor coconuts, the first thing you have to prepare is kopyor coconut seeds, kopyor coconut seeds that will be planted are at least one year old, healthy and have bright yellow on the stem and leaf bones.

Seed Of Yellow Kopyor Coconut

2. The planting hole
The requirements for growing this type of coconut are actually the same as the process of planting ordinary coconuts, prepare a planting hole measuring 60 x 60 x 60 cm, then in the manure input holes and lots of leaves, then leave it for two weeks to eliminate the level of soil acidity.

3. Season
As is known, coconut is a plant that will grow very well in tropical climates, the tropical climate has two seasons, namely the dry season and the rainy season, when going to plant coconuts, it is best done at the beginning of the rainy season, because coconut seeds need a lot of water to grow, there is no certainty when the change of season occurs, making farmers sometimes plant at the end of the dry season.

4. Water Supply
When planting coconuts at the beginning of the rainy season, often the rain has not fallen in a long period of time, when there is no rain, then watering the seeds that have been planted must be done, because the dry soil and hot weather will make the soil also become hot, flush the coconut seeds that have been planted 2 days in the afternoon with plenty of water, try to watering the soil until it is really wet.

5. Ground cover
If planting the seedlings is done at the end of the dry season but it has not yet rained, we need to add soil cover around the coconut seedlings that we plant, this needs to be done to reduce water evaporation and so that the soil does not get hot from the sun which will make the seeds that we planted die.

6. Care
Care of newly planted seedlings is carried out to ensure that the kopyor coconut seeds that we plant live and grow normally, care includes watering at least once every 2 days in the afternoon and use a ground cover from leaves that are still wet to reduce evaporation and so that the soil around the seedlings is not hot.

This is how to plant coconut seedlings at the end of the dry season so that the seeds we plant can live and grow well, if after planting then the rain intensity is already high then you have a lighter task in caring for these seeds, thank you, hopefully useful.