The Effect of Plant Spacing and Time of Weeding on Growth and Shallot Production (Allium ascalonicum L.) Medan Variety

Abstract

Shallot is a vegetable commodity that has many benefits and is of high economic value. Shallot is a seasoning supplement that has never been left behind in cooking, as a raw material for example for the fried onion industry and so on. This research studied the effect of plant spacing and time of weeding on growth and shallot production (Allium ascalonicum L.) Medan variety, use a randomized block design with 2 factors treatment. The first factor is plant spacing (10 cm x 20 cm,                                15 cm x 20 cm, 20 cm x 20 cm), and the second factor time of weeding (harvest until harvest,                       to 21 HST, to 42 HST, not to cultivate until harvest).  The result of this research showed that the treatment of plant spacing had a significant effect on the number of leaves, wet weight of tuber, dry weight of tuber, wet weights per hill, wet weight of weed per plot. Treatment time of weeding significantly affects the number of leaves, number of tillers of the hill, wet weights of the hill, wet weight of weed of hill.