APLIKASI AIR KELAPA MUDA DALAM MENINGKATKAN PERTUMBUHAN BIBIT PISANG BARANGAN (Musa paradisiaca)

Abstract

ABSTRAK
Many kinds of banana are cultivated in Indonesia but only parts of them have export prospects
such as Barangan banana because it has more special qualities compared with other banana×s.
The big problem faced in growing Barangan banana is that the seed is rarely found because of
some factors : limited number of shoots cultivated to be seeds, slow growth, and heterogenous.
Cultivation by using belahan bonggol is potentially to be developed because bonggol has many
eye-buds but its growth is various. Therefore, it is necessary to have efforts to increase the
growth of the eye-buds. One of the alternative is providing natural plant growth regulators, that
is water of young coconut fruit containing sitokinin activity. It aims to study the level of ripening
suitable concentration of water of young coconut fruit toward the growth of belahan bonggol
seeds of barangan banana. The experiment shows that providing water of young coconut fruit
with concentration 100% can increase the growth of barangan banana seeds in the various level
of ripening eye-buds, and the excellent growing happens in the level of ripe eye-buds.