UGM researcher has cultivated a superior variety of longan fruit, namely Sleman Longan Super.
“This Sleman Longan Super has characteristics with relatively bigger fruit size with dense flesh and small seeds,” said the researcher of Sleman Longan Super from the UGM Faculty of Biology, Prof. Budi S Daryono, on Thursday (4/2).
Either shore or medium lands with an altitude of about 700 above sea level is considered a potential area to cultivate longan. Longan born from the innovation by Budi and Yusuf Sulaiman can also grow in karst fields.
Budi revealed that since 2015, he had cultivated longan fruit. Longan is a cross result between KD longan and LD longan. Meanwhile, local longan is used for the base of the cuttings.
Furthermore, this variety of longan has a sweet taste that contains sugar of 22-23 Brix. The weight of the fruit reaches 9.74-10 grams. The seed diameter is 1.1-1.3 cm, and the seed weight is 0.96-1.53 grams.
Budi said that this variety of Sleman Longan Super could yield fruit all the time. In other words, it won’t be affected by season by supplying phytohormone / POC induction for flowering fertilization. A two-year-old longan tree can bear fruits up to 2-4 kg and a three-year-old tree can bear 4-6 kg fruits in one harvest period.
“After the age of 4 years it will reach 10-25 kg/tree depending on the number of flowers and pollination into fruit,” explained the Dean of the Faculty of Biology UGM,” explained the Dean of the UGM Faculty of Biology.
Sleman Longan Super has a large market share to be cultivated. The community that the UGM Faculty of Biology has once supervised has also cultivated this variety for a long time in Condongcatur Sleman Yogyakarta, Kemadang Gunungkidul, Hargowilis Kulon Progo, and Balikpapan, East Kalimantan.
Source: https://ugm.ac.id/id/berita/20720-peneliti-ugm-kembangkan-kelengkeng-super-sleman
