Myth
Most
oil palm planters believe that the bias male flowers turn into the female
flower. This belief sometimes make planters do treatments technical culture
that is based on expectations of production may be more in a short time.
Fact
Change
the belief of most planters is virtually impossible and not in accordance with
the process of formation and development of flowers and fruit on the plant oil
palm. Besides, it also happens wrong understanding of the role of the factors
of production (eg, water, etc.) to process fruit formation.
Generative
development of oil palm trees are divided into several phases:
1
Initiation of flower formation that occurred 44 months before the
physiologically mature
2.
Formation of flower jewelry that occurred 36 months before the physiologically
mature
3.
Differentiation of sex that occurred 17 months before the physiologically
mature
4.
Sensitive flower abortion that occurred 12 months before the physiologically
mature
5.
anthesis that occurred five months before the physiologically mature.
If
the water and nutrient needs of plants is not fulfilled (eg drought) at the
time of flower initiation cause failure of flower formation, and during the
formation of flower jewelry cause the flower can not continue its development.
While drought during sex diferesiasi led to the development of flowers tends to
form male flowers, and when sensitive abortion causes fall flowers, as well as
at the time of anthesis cause fertilization is not perfect and female flower
bunches failed to achieve physiologically mature.
Based
on the phases of the generative clear that the formation of male and female
flowers on the sexual differentiation process, where if the needs of nutrients
and water by plants not mencuupi tends to be formed is the male flowers. Furthermore,
after the flowers are formed (undifferentiated) treatments that we provide (eg,
fertilizer) will have an impact on fertilization and development of a more
perfect flowers female flowers will develop into bunches perfect and male
flowers grow perfectly with a good quality pollen for pollination. This means
that the male flowers remain to be himself.