Abstract:
This study aimed to examine the effect of empty fruit bunches of oil palm compost on the growth of oil palm seedlings and get a dose that provides good growth in oil palm seedlings. Research conducted experiments using a completely randomized design (CRD) Non Factorial consisting of 6 treatments and 3 replicates, so it can be 18 units in the trial. As each treatment is K0 = Without compost (0 tons / ha), K1 = TKKS Compost 5 tons / ha, (25 g / polybag), K2 = TKKS compost 10 tons / ha (50 g / polybag ), K3 = TKKS compost 15 tons / ha (75 g / polybag), K4 = TKKS compost 20 tonnes / ha (100 g / polybag), and K5 = TKKS compost 30 tons / ha (150 g / polybag). Units of the experiment consists of four oil palm seedlings, so it takes 72 seeds. Parameters were observed among other plants gain height, increase the number of leaves, increase tuber diameter, root volume, relative growth rate, the ratio of crown roots, seedling dry weight. Based on the research that has been done can be concluded that the provision of compost TKKS with various doses of the oil palm seedlings provide a noticeable effect on the parameters of leaves, but not significantly different in the high parameter seed, tuber diameter, root volume, relative growth rate, dry weight, and the ratio of the root crown.
