Farmerakinloye6:
I have drop SAAF since last year. I used fungus force through out last year, it has the same active ingredient with SAAF.

mcyemite:
Senior man, @farmerakinloye6 na you give us date oo February 15,and we believe your calculations are right...

May everything (weather,climate, government policies etc) work in our favour this year....

Farmerakinloye6:
nice 💪...I will start my own next month. Keep us up!

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Farmerakinloye6:
nice 💪...I will start my own next month. Keep us up!

Avuu2204:


I did a field nursery with Platinum F1 on Feb. 22nd and I sprayed insecticide/fungicide on the bed prior to planting the seeds.

Noticed that half of the seeds did not germinate. Have you ever experienced this with nursery beds? I was wondering what could’ve gone wrong because I didn’t experience that when we used to plant local varieties.

Could this mean the soil type won’t sustain Platinum F1 if transplanted?

mcyemite:


give it sometime...keep wetting the bed.

Avuu2204:


I did a field nursery with Platinum F1 on Feb. 22nd and I sprayed insecticide/fungicide on the bed prior to planting the seeds.

Noticed that half of the seeds did not germinate. Have you ever experienced this with nursery beds? I was wondering what could’ve gone wrong because I didn’t experience that when we used to plant local varieties.

Could this mean the soil type won’t sustain Platinum F1 if transplanted?

pathology:
pls what's the best planting between tomatoes plants

OluchiDelly:


its 2 weeks, she said since feb 22nd. tom seed takes less than 5days maybe extra 2 days if something goes wrong.



soil should not be your problem since u have don it before with local breed.
1. did you cover it with leaves to induce warmth/heat and to minimize evaporation?
2. in dry season open field nursery, unlike during rainy season, you wl need to remove the leaves midway (like on the 3rd day) , wet it again and then return the leaves. possibly the ones that did not receive enough water are the ones that did not germinate well.
3. the mass of sand you used to cover the seed should not be too heavy on the seed otherwise you wl be conducting burial service for the seed.
4. i hope you are not been carried away by the denser population of seedlings from local breed nursery? just because local seed is too cheap, some farmers close theie eyes and broadcast it heavily and this result into a denser pop of seedlings. but hybrids are always scanty inside their sachets...so you get what you broadcast.

Avuu2204:


I did a field nursery with Platinum F1 on Feb. 22nd and I sprayed insecticide/fungicide on the bed prior to planting the seeds.

Noticed that half of the seeds did not germinate. Have you ever experienced this with nursery beds? I was wondering what could’ve gone wrong because I didn’t experience that when we used to plant local varieties.

Could this mean the soil type won’t sustain Platinum F1 if transplanted?

Avuu2204:

Thanks everyone for your input.
@Oluchi Delly without writing too much, I basically did everything you wrote up there. I have the manpower and supervision.

While I did the platinum on nursery beds, I also had a batch of Diva in trays and few on beds— those turn out okay now that we are checking.

One thing I found was that the platinum seeds expires in 5 months while the Diva has a longer expiration. I am assuming this might also be a factor.

The ungerminated platinum seeds were just there sadly.

OluchiDelly:


its 2 weeks, she said since feb 22nd. tom seed takes less than 5days maybe extra 2 days if something goes wrong.



soil should not be your problem since u have don it before with local breed.
1. did you cover it with leaves to induce warmth/heat and to minimize evaporation?
2. in dry season open field nursery, unlike during rainy season, you wl need to remove the leaves midway (like on the 3rd day) , wet it again and then return the leaves. possibly the ones that did not receive enough water are the ones that did not germinate well.
3. the mass of sand you used to cover the seed should not be too heavy on the seed otherwise you wl be conducting burial service for the seed.
4. i hope you are not been carried away by the denser population of seedlings from local breed nursery? just because local seed is too cheap, some farmers close theie eyes and broadcast it heavily and this result into a denser pop of seedlings. but hybrids are always scanty inside their sachets...so you get what you broadcast.

OluchiDelly:


its 2 weeks, she said since feb 22nd. tom seed takes less than 5days maybe extra 2 days if something goes wrong.



soil should not be your problem since u have don it before with local breed.
1. did you cover it with leaves to induce warmth/heat and to minimize evaporation?
2. in dry season open field nursery, unlike during rainy season, you wl need to remove the leaves midway (like on the 3rd day) , wet it again and then return the leaves. possibly the ones that did not receive enough water are the ones that did not germinate well.
3. the mass of sand you used to cover the seed should not be too heavy on the seed otherwise you wl be conducting burial service for the seed.
4. i hope you are not been carried away by the denser population of seedlings from local breed nursery? just because local seed is too cheap, some farmers close theie eyes and broadcast it heavily and this result into a denser pop of seedlings. but hybrids are always scanty inside their sachets...so you get what you broadcast.

OluchiDelly:


planting what? time or variety? throw more light bros

pathology:
planting distance

OluchiDelly:


This question has long been settled on this thread. Check out page 30 for details.

solarized:
How long does it take tomatoes to recover from transplant shock?
Mine is two days now and the plant will stand erect in the morning and evening only.
Is there anything that can be done to assist the plant?
I observe some of the plants got burned leaves from the scorching sun from day one of the transplant. Farmers around me said they will recover. Is this true?
Thanks as you reply on these concerns.

Aquadude16:

They will recover in few days time.
Just continue watering

mcyemite:
Good day senior farmers in the house...

Please I need urgent help.
My diva F1 plants are wilting just after they started flowering.. platinum are standing strong in the same location but divas are wilting what could be the issue please.

@Oluchidelly
@farmerakinloye6
@aqudude16

mcyemite:
Good day senior farmers in the house...

Please I need urgent help.
My diva F1 plants are wilting just after they started flowering.. platinum are standing strong in the same location but divas are wilting what could be the issue please.

@Oluchidelly
@farmerakinloye6
@aqudude16

mcyemite:
Good day senior farmers in the house...

Please I need urgent help.
My diva F1 plants are wilting just after they started flowering.. platinum are standing strong in the same location but divas are wilting what could be the issue please.

@Oluchidelly
@farmerakinloye6
@aqudude16

mcyemite:
Good day senior farmers in the house...

Please I need urgent help.
My diva F1 plants are wilting just after they started flowering.. platinum are standing strong in the same location but divas are wilting what could be the issue please.

@Oluchidelly
@farmerakinloye6
@aqudude16

Farmerakinloye6:
it bacteria wilt. It happen to few stand of diva ( like 15 out 3000 stand) when I planted both plantinum and diva together last year.