Teak Tree Cultivation Method

Teak or which in botanical terms known as Tectona Grandis Lf can grow sumbur across Java, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, Sumbawa, Maluku and Lampung.Teak tree can reach a height of 45 m with a length of 15-20 m branch-free trunk, the diameter can reach 220 cm.Brown color of teak-wood terrace young, brown-gray to brown-red or red-brown. Wood texture is rather coarse and uneven with the fiber direction of the straight or sometimes slightly cohesive. Wood surface smooth or slightly oily slick sometimes. Growth rings or also called rings clearly visible, both in the transverse plane and this raises radial.Hal beautiful pictures and can also to tell the age of the tree.
TEAK WOOD PROPERTIES:Teak wood has a hardness of medium, so that the teak wood easily done either by machine or by hand tools.If the tools are used quite sharp, teak can be done until it is smooth but the transverse plane should be done with caution because the wood is rather Rapu. Teak can be varnished wood and polished well, has good nail holding power and can be glued satisfactorily.
TEAK TREE CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE:Teak trees grow well in the ground nests, particularly in soil containing lime. Teak trees grow in areas that a real dry season, the type of average rainfall 1200-2000 mm / t, at an altitude of 000-700 meters above sea level.Easy natural regeneration occurs, and can form pure stands after a fire, but it's easy to grow bud stump but regeneration is rarely done because it will produce low-quality wood.In the teak plantation in general applies clearcut system with artificial regeneration. Artificial regeneration is done directly with the seed planted at the beginning of the rainy season with a spacing of 3 × 1 m to 3 × 3 m depending on the condition of the soil / soil fertility class.To prevent erosion and maintain soil fertility, cropping patterns using the concept of terrace with teak planting is done between the intercropping system of crop management systems with growing food / crops such as rice, corn, soybeans, pineapples, etc. between the bolt teak plantation.Teak trees flowering in the month of October to June and fruits mature in July-December. This seed that will be planted and made regeneration.Prevention of pests in teak tree can be done by silvicultural measures such as thinning and cleaning of plant pests under the nest. Eradication of disease is done by immediately cutting down and burning trees attacked teak so it does not spread to other trees.