The Potential of Potato and Bombay Onion Tubers as a Tool to Produce Mango Crops

Abstract

Vegetative propagation has advantages over generative. With the vegetative method, all the characteristics of the parent tree will be passed on to its offspring, so that the potential of a good parent tree will decrease. Propagating mango plants by cuttings will save farmers time and energy. To help mango cuttings develop well, root growth stimulants (ZPT) are needed. The natural PGRs used are potato tubers (Solanum tuberosum) and onions (allium cepa Linnaeus). The advantage is that onions and potatoes are natural ingredients and easy to obtain. This research aims to find out whether mango plants, which are woody plants that have seeds/fruit, can be propagated using stem cuttings and to find out the comparison of the speed of root growth of mango stem cuttings using onion and potato PGR tools. The research results show that the propagation of mango seeds can be done using stem cuttings. After 21 days of experimentation, the root length of mango stem cuttings that used onion growth stimulants was between 1.5 cm and 3 cm. Meanwhile, the length of the roots of cuttings that use potato tuber growth stimulants is only between 0.2 cm - 0.8 cm. Propagating mango cuttings using onion growth stimulants has longer roots than using potatoes. Thus, propagating mango cuttings using onion growth stimulants is better than using potatoes