Scientist: guava tree can bear fruit cloves

Guava tree with clove buds were united, thus producing the fruit of clove, according to research from the Office of Food Security Padang, West Sumatra Province, Rasmi R, S.St. M.Sc.


"Tekhnologinya quite simply, among others, which have relatively large rose-cut branches, after the young sprout directly connected with clove buds. After 21 days entris will converge, it will pop a clove cloves ready to bear fruit," said Rasmi R, in Padang, Wednesday .


According to him, the connection of the guava tree - which is used as rootstock - that the clove bud, clove will be produced without bothering to plant from scratch.


While the fruit of clove alone, he said, the commercial value because it is one of the non-oil commodity exports scale than the guava fruit.


"Cloves` or `eugenia aromatica is a plant that originated from the island of Zanzibar was once the belle of the plantation in Indonesia," he said, but now the relative prestige of cloves declined further due to the monopoly tataniaga, quotas and plant pest or disease.


He was admitted to the decline of cloves, a study of the commodity also be unattractive, from cultivation, pests and diseases.


This, he said, is also influenced by the tendency of research done on things current or become popular.


While the plant itself also rose into genus and family eugenaceae eugenia. This genus has many species such as eugenia jambula (guava), eugenia sp (pink rivet) and rose apple (Eugenia sp.), Bay leaves and others.


Each species has its advantages and its own uniqueness. Ranging from resistance to environmental stress, high adaptability, resistance to pests, diseases and the rapid growth.


"As a foundation in the science of plant cultivation and biological science to explain that one genus of plants that can be done grafting (graft), patch (grafting), and other wet nurse," she said.


Therefore, the choice of doing this depends on the cultivation of engineering expertise because it has its own advantages and disadvantages.


While most high guava guava rivet is its durability, which black men are old when the size of a thumb.


"This plant is widely grown in the grassland areas Solok, despite dozens of times a fire underneath him alive and relatively large trunk. If water is also quite a lot of guava grows wild on the slopes of the cliffs, the river, and canyon Sianok Bukittinggi," he said.