The success of planting without loss of seedlings depends on some cares taken during transport and during the process of planting. All these cares are described and illustrated, step by step as follows.
RECEIVING
- Unload the seedling carefully from the truck, unloading them without causing harm to the stem and without breaking the pointers;
- Take them out holding by the base, not allowing it to break;
- Do not hold the stem of the plant, because it could harm it, as well as the radicular system;
DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDLINGS IN THE FIELD
- Do not transport the seedlings on top f each other in the truck or any other kind of transport;
- Whenever necessary to move them or change the location, remember to hold them by the base and not by the stem;
- Distribute them in the field near to the pits, leaving them standing upright.
PLANTING
- Plant the seedlings in the beginning of the rain of the spring season, being careful with Indian summer (long drought, 15 days) and irrigate if necessary;
- Perform the planting on a cloudy day, preferably rainy, otherwise avoid performing the planting during the hot hours of the day;
- Take off the plastic bag which is on the base of the seedling;
- Cut the roots that are touching the bottom of the plastic ;
- Put the base inside the pit, so that it is on the ground level, if necessary level put soil on the bottom of the pit in order to adjust the height;
- Centralize the seedling in the pit;
- Put the soil taken from the pit side by side with the base, pressing lightly with the hands, to expel the air, not letting empty spaces in touch with the roots;
- Put a mulch around the plant, leaving an free area from the stem (not touching);
CONDUCTION
-Control seriously the leaf-cutting ant;
- Do not put any kind of protection against the ants in the stem (e.g. bottles or plastic bags, cotton, cardboard paper, etc.)
- Control weed. If the handling is done through hoe, be careful not to cause any harm to the stem, if the handling is done with herbicide, avoid contact of the product with the leaves and lower branches;
- Observe every fifteen days the presence of mealy bugs, arapuás and aphid;
