You can do how to grow carrots in pots easily and for those of you who are still beginners you don't need to hesitate to try to cultivate plants that have a myriad of benefits. As we know, carrots are vegetable plants that are commonly processed into vegetables, apparently also very tasty if processed into carrot juice. Carrots can be found easily both on the market, in the nearest shop, in supermarkets, and other vegetable shops. The price of carrots is also relatively affordable and not too expensive. But even so, there is nothing wrong if you try to plant your own carrot that has many benefits for this health.

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Many think that planting carrots is very difficult and must be in the highlands. But this review will give you how to plant carrots very easily that you can practice directly in your home by using pots, as explained at the beginning of the article that planting carrots in pots is not difficult. That way you will also be facilitated when the harvest and maintenance period is easy. For those of you who are curious and want to know how to plant carrots in pots, just read the information below.

Carrot Plant Growth Requirements

Before knowing more about the process of planting, it would be much better if you know how the conditions for growing carrots so that the cultivation process you do is not in vain. So this carrot plant is a plant that can grow at an altitude that is ideally 100 - 1500 meters above sea level. But this is not a problem because you will still be successful and successful even though you plant carrots in pots and put them in your home. For the problem of temperature is also not a problem because these vegetable plants can grow in the dry season and also in the rainy season so it does not affect the technique you use, namely planting with pots. One of the most noteworthy things is the growing media that must be fertile and loose and then have nutrients and the pH must be around 6-7. If it turns out the soil pH is less than 5, you can do calcification using dolomite.
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Preparation Before Planting

Providing containers / pots

Prepare the pot as a carrot planting container and because the physicality of this vegetable plant has a type of root that grows into it, you can choose a pot that has the appropriate depth, which is around 30-40 cm so that the carrot results will be in the hope of having long and large quality . If you use a pot size that has a depth of about 20-25 cm, the results of the carrots you plant will be shorter. Pay attention to the cleanliness of the pot you will use, try to keep the pot dry when it is filled with planting media.

Providing planting media

Provide a suitable planting medium for growing carrots. You can use porous planting media that is not easily dense and some of the media needed is soil that can be mixed with the use of red soil, fine sand, and compost using the same comparison. You can also use fern stems mixed with a little sand if you don't use soil media.

Making Carrot Seeds

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Provide superior seeds that have very good adaptation properties. Characteristics of carrots that can be used as seeds are carrots that have high production and adaptation is quite reliable and then has the shape of a good bulb and brightly colored. For tubers that can be selected are tubers aged 100 days after harvest time. The size of the bulb used is large, not branched and straight, has a bright color. You can do how to make superior carrot seeds by cutting the edge of the bulb with a size of 1/3 of the length of the carrot tuber. Then trim the part of the carrot leaves near the base of the tuber and leave 10 cm after that.

Prepare a pot for the nursery (not for the planting process) which is then complete with the planting media that has been provided and then sprinkle the trichocompost fertilizer and after that leave it for 1 week. If it's been 1 week then you can plant carrot tubers that have been provided before and then flush them again using a solution of trichoderma added with water and with organic ZTP. This watering is done every 2 weeks and the watering time is every afternoon in the dry season. If you have reached the age of 1 month, the carrot will flower and then wait until it reaches 2 new months the carrot flower will blossom perfectly and ready to be harvested.

The dried carrot flowers will be brownish in color and you can harvest them directly by picking them. After that squeeze the carrot flower until the seeds are separated from the flower petals. If all the seeds have been collected, then you can store them in plastic packaging which can then be tied using rubber to the meeting. This process is not a planter process but rather the process of obtaining carrot seeds or seeds from superior carrot tubers. If this method has been done, then you can proceed to the planting process below.

Planting Process

Insert the planting media that has been provided into the pot that has also been there before. Leave the empty space above the media about 2-3 cm. Make a hole to put the carrot seeds with a distance of about 3-5 cm in each hole. Enter the carrot seeds in the holes that have been made and for each hole filled with 2 carrot seeds. If it is, then close the hole again using the planting media.