PROCESS TO TAP THE RUBBER PLANT

Rubber tapping should be done in the right way so as not to damage the rubber plant stems. After know the correct way to plant rubber and treatment, must know the next is also the best way to harvest rubber agat not damage the rubber plant stems.
To do incising or tapping rubber which can either be done by beberpa following ways:

    Prepare knife notch (oahat hooks) are often used to harvest rubber. Keep the knife nick already sharpening before use so sharp.
    Make a notch on the height at shoulder level that is not too difficult, start notch from top to bottom in a straight line as a reference line around the edge length of 30 cm on both sides of the rubber rod. Then make a diagonal incision in the bark of the rubber tree cut made earlier to only straight line, the slope of the incision around 30-40 degrees.
    Perform incising the skin only where there is a tree sap content, not to suppress notch knife so deep that the bones of trees. This will damage tanamn can reduce the production of rubber and latex.
    At the bottom end of the past make the incision with a knife nock groove to run the sap into a container that has been provided.
    untu facilitate entry dripping rubber container, attach a kind of small with menggunakn zinc gutters are plugged into the rubber tree.

Some steps harvesting the gum above can certainly be tried in your garden each so as not to damage the rubber trees. Ditoreh rubber tree or intercepted by improper means can cause the rubber tree is damaged and latex production will decline. Rubber tapping activities should be done in the morning seitar 04:00 until 08:00. This is because the rubber latex production lot and the pressure is still high, so the gum can be out a lot.