Journal of Tropical Soils
Vol. 30 No. 3: September 2025

The Effect of Planting Media on Several Chemical Properties of Soil and Growth of Moringa Stem Cuttings (Moringa oleifera Lam.)

Santoso, Untung (Unknown)
Wahdah, Rabiatul (Unknown)
Cahyanti, Tri Buana (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Aug 2025

Abstract

This research was conducted to determine the effect of planting media on the growth of Moringa stem cuttings and determine the best planting media for growing Moringa stem cuttings. The research was carried out in July-October 2023. Located on the Wasaka III Student Dormitory grounds, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan. The research was carried out using a one-factor Completely Randomized Design (CRD) method with four treatments and five replications to obtain 20 experimental units. The treatments given: m0: 6 kg peat soil, m1: 5 kg peat soil + 1 kg husk charcoal, m2: 5 kg peat soil + 1 kg laying chicken manure, m3: 5 kg peat soil + 0.5 kg husk charcoal + 0.5 kg laying chicken manure. The results showed that the planting had a significant effect on soil pH, shoot length, number of leaf stalks, root length and root volume of Moringa stem cuttings. However, it had no real effect on the number of shoots on Moringa stem cuttings. Based on research that has been carried out, it shows that planting media given husk charcoal and manure increases the available P content by 241.34 ppm, N-dd 1.70 me/100 g, and K-dd 1.65 me/100 g in the soil. Peat can increase the pH of peat soil from acid to neutral. The treatment also had a very significant effect to all parameters.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

tropicalsoil

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Subject

Agriculture, Biological Sciences & Forestry Environmental Science

Description

Journal of Tropical Soils (JTS) publishes all aspects in the original research of soil science (soil physic and soil conservation, soil mineralogy, soil chemistry and soil fertility, soil biology and soil biochemical, soil genesis and classification, land survey and land evaluation, land development ...