<![CDATA[Female Flowers and Fruits Setting Characteristic of Hybrids CoconutDwarf x DwarfThis study purpose to determine the performance of Dwarf x Dwarf coconut. The experiment was conducted from July 2009 until August 2010, at the Experimental Garden of Mapanget and Paniki, and at the Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Indonesian Coconut and Palmae Research Institute (ICOPRI), Manado. Treatment consists of crosses between Dwarf coconut types, namely Raja Dwarf (GRA), Bali Yellow Dwarf (GKB) and Salak Dwarf (GSK), and their resiprokal, (1) GRA x GKB, (2) GRA x GSK, (3) GKB x GRA, (4) GKB x GSK, (5) GSK x GRA dan (6) GSK x GKB. Each type of crossing it uses as many as 15 coconut trees as replicates, and each tree is used 3 bunches as examples of female parents. Parameters were observed in female parents are: Number of female flowers per bunch, number of fruit setting the age of 3 , 6 and 9 months per bunch, and number of fruit harvested (age 11 months) per bunch. Morphological data of leaf, stem, female flowers, and ripe fruit of the three female parents also observed prior to hybridization. Data analysis used Complete Random Design of ANOVA, and continued with t Tests. Research result showed that the Salak Dwarf coconut varieties (GSK), the female flowers produce more than the palm varieties Raja Dwarf (GRA) and the Bali Yellow Dwarf (GKB). The potential of hybrid coconut to produce fruit setting is so most GSK x GRA, and followed by GSK x GKB, ie. 12,90 fruits and 10,81 fruits. The highest fruit yields are obtained in crosses between GSK x GRA, which is 12.90 fruit/bunch.]]>
