PROFILE OF BAHJAI HAIR
This rambutan comes from the Binjai area, North Sumatra. It is so fresh sweet so no one if this rambutan is released as a superior rambutan varieties. The fruit looks attractive with a striking red color and a slightly rounded round shape. Fruit fruit thick and rather hard. The fruit's hair is long, rare, rough, and red with a green tip. The flesh is white, chewy, and ngelotok with the skin of the seeds attached. The flesh is slightly crunchy because of the water content slightly. The seeds are round and medium-sized. Its productivity is low, per tree yields 1,200-2,000 pieces / year or about 40-68 kg / year
Benefits:
Rambutan wood is quite hard and dry, but easily broken so it is not good for building materials. However, rambutan wood is great for firewood. The root of this plant is to cure fever, its wood bark for oral inflammatory drugs, and its leaves for headache medicine as a poultice (diaper). Fleshy ripe fruit can be canned.
Terms of Growth:
Plants grow and bear good fruits in the lowlands to a height of 500 m asl with wet climate type. Rainfall 1,500-3,000 mm per year. Friable and fertile soil is more favorable. The plant is relatively resistant to sour peatlands and brown latosol soil with soil pH 4-6.5. Air temperature 22-35 ° C. Latter yellow soil type is very favorable. A dry breeze, usually on the beach, can cause the edges of the leaves to turn brownish in color. However, to stimulate the flowering required dry season (dry) between 3-4 months. Rain that falls when the plants are in flowering causes many flowers to fall and encourage the onslaught of mild flour (Oidium sp.) Disease. If the drought is prolonged, the fruit becomes less contained (kerempeng) and the seeds are not developed (deflated, rudimentary).
Maintenance:
Important crop maintenance is cleansing the garden from weeds and prunes wild / emerging shoots.
Harvesting:
Rambutan fruit can be picked after the mature tree or age 120 days after anthesis (flowers bloom). Harvesting is done by cutting the stalk of the series (bunches) of fruit. The results can reach 500-700 kg / tree. Rambutan harvest season occurs in December-
February.