Garlic is one of the horticultural commodities included in the Amaryllidaceae family which has health benefits such
as lowering cholesterol levels, lowering high blood pressure, and overcoming
stomach ulcers. Domestic garlic production in 2023 was only 30,194 tonnes,
while the domestic demand for garlic reached 554,000 tonnes. This is due to the
low production of garlic due to the limited land used for garlic cultivation.
Based on this, it is necessary to increase the growth and production of garlic,
one of which is by using growth regulators. The aim of this study was to
examine the effect of bamboo shoot extract, coconut water, GA3, and
cytokinin on the growth and yield of garlic. The research was conducted from June-August
2024, in farmers' land located in Dukuh Pancot, Kalisoro Village, Tawangmangu
District, Karanganyar Regency, Central Java. The method used was a Randomized
Complete Block Design (RCBD) with treatment factors, namely no treatment, bamboo
shoot extract (25 and 50%), coconut water (25 and 50%), GA3 (60 and
120 ppm), and cytokinin (60 and 120 ppm) and three replications. Observational
variables were environment (air temperature, air humidity, light intensity, and
rainfall) and initial soil analysis which were analysed descriptively as well
as growth and yield (plant height, number of leaves, stalk fresh weight, stalk
dry weight, tuber diameter, number of cloves per tuber, tuber fresh weight, and
dry tuber productivity) which were tested using Analysis of Variant (ANOVA)
with a significance level of 95%. The results showed that
the 50% coconut water treatment was the most effective in improving garlic
growth in terms of fresh weight of the plant and the most effective in
improving garlic yield in terms of bulb diameter (7.68% compared to no
treatment) and fresh weight of the bulb (31.52% compared to no treatment) and
compared to the bamboo shoot extract treatment, GA3, and cytokinin
treatments, but it did not affect the dry bulb weight per clump and dry bulb
weight productivity.