Nursery Highlights: Nurturing Seedlings for High-Quality Results

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In the pursuit of cultivating high-quality seedlings, the Trees4Trees nursery team employs various routines and techniques throughout the seedling growth process. Through diligent care and proper maintenance, these tree seedlings will thrive and mature into young trees, ready to make a positive impact on the environment. 

Join us in witnessing our dedicated efforts to nurture and care for these tree seedlings in our nurseries 

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Reaching the optimal growth of every seedling, our team applied organic fertilizer. Pati nursery team (above) sprayed liquid organic fertilizers to Albizia trees. Kebumen nursery team (below) spray plant growth substances to stimulate the growth of Calliandra seedlings.  

Management of pests and diseases affecting the seedlings

Management of pests and diseases affecting the seedlings

For the management of pests and diseases affecting the seedlings, the Ciminyak nursery team utilizes organic pesticides. Mindi and tobacco leaves, both organic materials, are employed effectively in the production of these organic pesticides to combat pests. 

Management of pests and diseases affecting the seedlings

At the Soreang nursery, our team chopped up banana tree stems (above) and mixed them with spirulina, and organic fertilizers to create organic material (below). This organic material serves the dual purpose of controlling pests and fertilizing the soil.

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Nurturing Seedlings for High-Quality Results

Regularly watering seedlings is essential for the seedlings’ growth. Our team in Kebumen nursery waters the seedlings every afternoon. The optimal times for watering plants are in the early morning and late afternoon. 

Management of pests and diseases affecting the seedlings

Cirasea nursery team is moving the stinky bean seedlings.  Every tree seedling in the polybags needs to be moved to prevent the roots from not penetrating the ground. Additionally, moving the seedlings is necessary to distinguish between the surviving and non-surviving ones. 

Management of pests and diseases affecting the seedlings

 

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Our Ciminyak nursery team is pruning the roots of stinky bean. The pruning is necessary to apply to growing seedlings aims to encourage root branching. 

Management of pests and diseases affecting the seedlings

The Soreang nursery team is installing the paranet (above), while the Ciminyak nursery team (below) has already finished installing the shading net. These are used to protect seedlings from excessive sunlight, rainfall, and wind.

Nurturing Seedlings for High-Quality Results

 

Nursery Highlights: Seedlings Preparation at West Java Nurseries

(Activity highlights) In preparation for the upcoming planting season, our nurseries in West Java are dedicatedly preparing high-quality seedlings for the ongoing Citarum watershed restoration project. At present, Trees4Trees operates three nurseries in the West Java region: Ciminyak Nursery, Cirasea Nursery, and Soreang Nursery. Notably, both Cirasea and Soreang Nursery are newly established facilities. We are eager to showcase some captivating photos that showcase the vibrant activities taking place within our nurseries. 

In our newest nursery, Soreang Nursery, we have constructed a spacious greenhouse with a diameter of 12 meters and a height of 4 meters within the nursery area. This greenhouse plays a crucial role in safeguarding the tree seedlings and facilitating their optimal growth. It helps maintain a consistent temperature, shields the seedlings from rainwater runoff, and protects them against potentially damaging winds. 

Soreang nursery team sets up seed beds, one of the crucial elements in the nursery to put and categorize tree seedlings.  

The workers at Ciminyak Nursery are weighing sacks of planting media. Once weighed, the media will be transferred to the seed beds area and filled into polybags. 

A nursery worker in Soreang  is filling polybags with planting media, carefully ensuring that each polybag is filled with an equal volume of the planting material. 

The team at Ciminyak Nursery measures the height and diameter of each polybag filled with planting media, which consists of a mixture of soil, organic fertilizer, and rice husk in a ratio of 6:1:1. This meticulous process ensures that the seedlings are prepared to grow uniformly in terms of height and size. 

All polybags are successfully filled with planting media. Afterwards, they are arranged in the seed beds in Cirasea Nursery. They are ready for the sowing and germination process.  

A nursery worker in Ciminyak nursery is cleaning and sun-drying Suren tree seedlings to eliminate excess moisture before proceeding with the sowing process. 

Soreang Nursery workers are sowing seedlings of the Arabica Coffee Yellow Catura variety in the seed beds.

Petai (stinky beans) seedlings are being sown in each polybag at Cirasea Nursery. Petai seed pods are a popular culinary ingredient in Indonesia and can also be enjoyed fresh. As a result, petai trees are high demand among our tree grower partners. 

In our nurseries, we actively involve women in our operations. They rediligently sowing avocado seedlings in Ciminyak Nursery. 

(Above) A team of nursery workers at Cirasea Nursery is cleaning the avocado seeds before cultivation. (Below) Following this step, the avocado seedlings progress to the next stage, where they are cultivated using the direct sowing method in the polybags.