Planting media with material composition variation of Sinabung sand using mechanic press toll

Abstract

Abstract The inspiration of this investigation was to descript the output analysis of product plantation media from sand material from mount Sinabung eruption. The Sinabung volcanic sand with chicken manure and natural soil were mixed and used as materials to produce planting media. The experiment started from collecting the materials with pre-treatment then added by certain variation material prepared to make shape by mechanic pressure tool to construct the matrix media with cylindrical shape.The surface characteristic and hardness of the planting media products were analyzed to get the best variation of materials. The increasing percentage of Sinabung sand will decrease the strength of mixed materials plantation media from 61,9 N to 40,9 N and to 32,6 N for 20%,40% and 60% Sinabung volcanic sand. The product planting media can be used in the area that needed reforesting such as: around the mount Sinabung, toba lake, ect.