Plantation Crops

Vertical and Horizontal method of sowing seed nuts

A) Vertical method of sowing seed nuts:
• It is planting with stalk end up and practiced only in India.

Advantages
Easy bundling /packing and transportation of seedlings. I.e., handling becomes easier

Disadvantages
Nut water does not remain in close contact with germinating embryo.

B) Horizontal method:
• With stalk end of nut placed horizontally. It is the common and recognized method of sowing in other coconut growing countries.

Advantages
Higher percentage of early and total germination, vigourous seedling with thicker girth at the collar, possibly because of nut water is in close contact with embryo.

Disadvantages
There is possibility of damage to the seedlings during transportation.

Raising of nursery
Sow seed nuts in beds of size 1 m width and convenient length at a spacing of 40 cm x 30 cm in either vertically or horizontally in 20 to 25 cm deep trenches.