URBANBANDUNG – Patek in chili is a disease that must be eradicated or overcome or even prevented.
Actually Patek on chili is caused by the presence of fungus. This patek can attack all parts of the plant without exception.
Therefore, Patek in chilies must be addressed immediately so as not to interfere with the growth process in plants so that chilies can grow and bear fruit properly.
Patek is very easy to spread even just by touch. That is, if you touch a part of a chili that has been infected with a sore and then touch a chili that is still healthy, the chili that is still healthy can get infected.
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If a patek disease is found, even if only on one plant, it must be treated immediately. Meanwhile, before the chili plants are affected by patek, prevention must be carried out immediately so that the patek can be easier to control.
Some of the preventive ways that can be done are
Prevention is done before planting chilies or when doing land cultivation
1. Do the calcification of the land. Lime can be done using agricultural lime to achieve an ideal soil pH of 6.0 to 7.0
2. Use manure that has been left alone or fermented. Manure comes from animal manure such as chickens, cows, goats, and so on.
3. Use plastic media during the rainy season to keep the soil from getting too moist so that the soil pH is stable.
4. Use trichoderma which is leaked on each bed when working the land as a biofungicide and bactericide which can suppress or prevent the development of fungi and do it once every 30 days by leaking it.
Prevention of patek disease after planting.
Basically, cultivation has the principle of keeping plants while they are still healthy so that they grow healthily so that farmers can get maximum yields.
