Physical quality of some type of grass on mixed planting with legum arachis and organic fertilizing Bye Feri Umbu Kaledi Wawu, I Dewa Nyoman Sudita *, I Gusti Ayu Dewi Sri Rejeki
Faculty of Agriculture, Warmadewa University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
* E-mail: idnsudita[at]gmail.com
Abstract
The study used a Randomized Block Design with a factorial pattern consisting of 3 types of grass planted with Arachis (factor A) and 2 types of solid and liquid organic fertilizer (factor B) with 3 replications. The treatment combinations are R1C (Paspalum notatum grass with Arachis pintoi+Compost), R1B (Paspalum notatum grass with Arachis pintoi+Biourine), R2C (Paspalum conyugatum grass with Arachis pintoi+Compost), R2B (Paspalum notatum grass with Arachis pintoi+Biourine), R3C (Paspalum conyugatum grass with Arachis pintoi+Compost), R3B (Paspalum conyugatum grass with Arachis pintoi+Biourine). The results showed no significant difference both in planting a mixture of grass with legume and applying organic fertilizer to the physical quality of forage grass. In planting Axonopus compresus grass mixture shows the best average dry matter, water regains capacity (WRC), and water solubility (WS). Whereas the compost fertilizer gets a higher average value than biourine for dry matter, WRC, and WS. When looking at the combination of mixed planting with fertilization, compost fertilizer showed the highest average especially water solubility (WS). From this study, it can be concluded planting a mixture of grass and legume given compost fertilizer averaged better than the physical quality of the grass but not significantly different from all treatments.
