THE QUARTERING TECHNIQUE TO GERMINATE MORE PINEAPPLE'S SEEDLINGS - TEKNIK PENYUKUAN UNTUK PERCAMBAHAN ANAK BENIH NANAS

Me at the farm planting the pineapple's seedlings

 

1) I chose pineapple to be planted as my 2020 project. I chose MD2 and another varieties such as Morris and Madu. I bought "sulur" and  I also do quartering technic to germinate seedlings.

My home backyard - the pot to germinate seedlings and also as the mini garden as well

 

2) To do agriculture business, we need time at least 5 years to see the success. I don't buy "sulur" in a big amount because it will incur big budget / huge cost to start the project. Imagine if 1 sulur is RM 2.00 and we invest 5000 pieces "sulur" will incur RM 10k. This method is not practical because we can germinate the seedlings buy using quartering technique from "jambul" or pineapple crawn. I wish to start planting 1000 pieces at the first and after a year - the pineapples will germinate 5000 new seedlings after harvested. ( 1 pineapple will produce at least 5 new borns "sulur" after a year). Now, what i do is to do quartering technique first and next coming years more pineapples come out.

Experiment of the quartering technique 

3) I bought MD2 with RM5 per kilo and the "jambul" i do quartering. How to do quartering? It's so much easy!! I cut the "jambul" into 4 parts become quarterly and I make sure I peel the leaf out to make the newborn seedlings come out from the "jambul". Then, I cut out the center of the "jambul" to avoid insects such as ant to come to destroy the seedlings because it's sweet! After all the process take part - I plant the new quartering seedlings on poly bag or any other medium to see the germination. It will grow as one new seedlings! Imagine - 1 pineapple will produce 4 new seedlings. That's how I do to make sure I don't bear risk if I buy "sulur" in bundle and the project fail. The process of quartering also is same technique if we use "sulur".

The quartering successfully taken place with 5 new pineapple's seedlings

4) However, this technique is not suitable for those who want to be rich in short time. I plan in 5 years project! Not a short period because I am now  planting coconut trees as well. 

MD2 - RM5/Kg

5) My plan is to complete planting 1000 pineapple by 2020 and it will generate / germinate more in the next years ahead. Allah will.

6) I will share again in the next series to see the progress of the quartering technique. I am still under learning and still do experiment to become a modern farmer with a brain! 

Thank you!

Some photos of my 2020 project - just to fill the empty land