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Good Day All,

Please oh i'm urgently in need of Okro to plant on 2 plots of land, i need the dwarf early maturing variety, preferably kirikou f1, this is my first time farming Okro, so i'll be coming back to ask a whole lot of questions, but first i need to get the seeds first.

I cleared the land by myself and i don't want it to get bushy again.

Kindly help a brother.

Thanks in advance.

Do you have Okra seeds? preferably Kirikou F1

Seedworld:
BELOW ARE SOME OF THE DRY SEASON VEGETABLES YOU CAN FARM.

1. Tomatoes

2. Okra


3. Pepper


4.Melon.

5. Cucumber

6. Garden egg.

7. Ewedu

8. Tete

9.Ugwu.

10.Onion

11.Carrot

12.Watermelon

13.Sweet potato

14.Spinach

15. Pumpkin etc.

You can contact SEEDWORLD LTD for suitable varieties for dry season farming.

Do you have Kirikou f1 Okra Seeds, and do you sell fertilizers?

Good morning,

I needs some okro seeds, kindly reply my email or send me your phone number.

Thanks

I've read this thread from beginning to end for the second time, I'm still reading it again because it contains too much information to download in just one read, i guess the OP and most of the early contributors have deviated into other means, hence the thread have gone silent.

Those of us here who are still into ugu farming or are about to start can connect better in a whatsapp group and share ideas if we don't mind, I'm presently preparing my land for the dry season ugu farming, Below are some of the procedures i plan to follow

1. Plant 4,000 ugu seeds in 2 and half plot of land (more than half of the land already cleared), Land location is Ikorodu Lagos
2. grow the seeds using nursery bags and later transplant (though i may do some direct planting because i presently have only about 1450 nursery bags and i don't know if i'll have enough funds to buy more, i thing seeds stand a better chance at germinating after drying if they are planted using nursery bags, because the last time i planted 64 seeds on nursery bags 61 germinated, which is about 95%, it will also save the stress off non uniformity or having to replace the stands that refuse to germinate as with direct planting
3. I intend to use both organic manure and inorganic fertilizer (getting manure seem not to be very convenient in my area, the only close location i got a contact of someone who could provide dry poultry manure said a bag is N1,500, i think that is too expensive, but i'll have to buy a few
4. i still have issues getting fertilizers, it seems allot of dealers don't sell 1 or 2 bags(that's what i'm made to understand for now) the only contact i've gotten is at ibadan, but I'll go for that if i have no other option, man must farm!

This is all i've got for now, I'll be posting pictures when i start.

Cheers farmers!

Hmmm
Hussle ohhhh

But why are you harvesting them green, I thought they are harvested when ripe?

FMCASH:
Chili pepper available

500 seeds for an acre? if its actually an acre then you need nothing less than 4000 seeds, it may even be more if you can manage it, do you have access to water?

farmerazu:
good day
i just acquired 1acre land and i want to plant ugu on it. just finished clearing and digging the ridges. i have got seeds (about 500 SEEDS)
please what is the best paractise for ugu
and how can i make it more productive

Nice Work, did you sow your seeds on plastic containers, i can't see the under clearly, and how many seeds per hole?

FMCASH:
Gamhar RZ tomato seedling 3 weeks

Josefoyeniyi:
*STAKING OF PLANT*
One way to improve yield when cultivating vegetables is staking plants. Vegetables benefit a lot from staking and they also grow well. The process can be a little bit tedious but the end result is encouraging. You will see your crops blossoming and producing healthy fruits throughout the growing season. You can improvise and use any type of material you want. The most important thing is that the stakes should be sturdy and driven well into the ground so that they can support the weight of the fruiting plants. At least a foot or more of the stakes can be driven into the ground. Ensure that the support is strong enough to bear the weight of the fruit and can also withstand heavy winds or rain. There are lots of benefits of staking climbers. A little understanding of these benefits will encourage every gardener to consider the system instead of allowing crops to run on the ground.
*Benefit of Staking*
*1. Increase in yield*
The most important reason for staking crops is to increase yield. Studies carried out in different locations shows that growing crops vertically increases yield three times than when they are allowed to run on the ground.
*2. Maintain fruit quality*
A healthy fruit without blemishes attracts better price. That’s why gardeners will do anything to prevent their fruits from damages. Damages can occur when fruits are allowed to run on the ground. They are exposed to insect attacks and other creeping things.
*3. Disease-free plants*
Every gardener wish is to make sure their plants are free from diseases. This can be achieved by staking crops rather than allowing them to run on the ground. They can easily contract diseases when allowed to remain and run on the ground. But when they are raised up with stakes, they experience better air circulation which reduces the incidence and spread of diseases.
*4. Exposure to sunlight*
Crops like tomatoes need as much sun as they can possibly get during the day. And for such crops, staking exposes a greater part of the leaves’ surface to sunlight which they need to generate energy and grow well.
*5.Cultivate more crops in limited space*
There is no point looking for an extra piece of land to add to the one you have when you can simply double your yield. Staking allows you to utilize limited space well. There are many reasons to use stakes to grow plants. It makes harvesting, spraying, fertilizer application and watering easier. You can explore the various methods used in staking plants. You can also get creative but make sure the stakes are sturdy enough to support the weight of the fruits as they grow bigger in size.

Please where can I get the white type of staking ropes in Lagos? I was made to understand it is sold in bags, how much will a bag cost?

Ok how much do you sell per pack? what quantity do you have in a pack, i want to use them to nurse ugu seeds, i believe you know the size that will be good for that

gabbyfarms:
we don't av office in Lagos for now we r in Ibadan, but we can send it through transport to u.

Hello,

How much do you sell your nursery bags? do you have an office in Lagos?

please add me
08139293592

Ok thanks Allot

jethro2:
Might be hard getting a practical farm where you can learn vegetable in Lagos.

You can approach those Hausa guys beside LASU gate Ojo if they will be willing to put you through.

They are expert at growing vegetables

ugu can grow this fresh on an almost pure sandy soil? Wonders! please what fertilizers or manure did you apply? what other tips do you think made it look this fresh? Please keep the updates coming as it grows so that those of us learning here will be motivated.

Cheers

griinfarms:
UPDATE : This is the Ugu i planted at home in almost-purely sharp sand. Its now 2weeks old. When it germinated, i mistakenly cut of the leaves springing up as i was trying to dig out stones from the ground around it. After a few days, i noticed it grew new leaves from two new sets of shoots.
From the first picture i just uploaded, you can see the cut-off shoot as well as the new ones. Amazing.

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Thanks for ur response, do you mean they have a life cycle of 3 months or first harvest in 3 months?

Sorry for too many questions I seriously need to learn and I believe this platform is a great way to connect with like minds.

Cheers

Mrkellz:
Dunno d name.just bought from the market.think it's up to 3 different varieties, they're the 3 months type.
I planted directly.as long as it has full sun and adequate water, it'll grow quickly

Thanks for your response, i will be buying habanero pepper (avenir f1) and the okro i think i will be opting for kirikou f1 variety) i pray we succeed.

griinfarms:
I got the Habanero pepper. As for the okra am not too sure till it produces but am guessing it's the star-of-david or eagle-pass variety. Fingers crossed there.
I planted directly on the beds with a 6 inch spacing. I actually did alternate the okra and pepper on each bed with same space. Reason is i did a small research online and found out the peppers help repel the pest that normally would infest the okras. I don't know how effective the pepper would be in "guarding" the Ugu though so i hope to transplant any overcrowded pepper onto some ugu beds to experiment later on.
I plan to keep the farm purely organic but i would be using neem oil later on for the ugu plants. I haven't used any manure yet till about the 3rd week.
Wish you luck on your farm. Let's do this!

Good Day, nice pictures, what varieties of Okro are the mature ones you have in the pictures, are they hybrid or local, did you plant your okro directly on the bed or you did a nursery first

I need Okro, Pepper and cucumber seeds in small quantities, what is your location and price? I'm in Lagos

Nice one OP, i'm about starting off with ugwu, pepper and vegetable on a plot also.

Please can you share further details for the knowledge of newbies, What varieties of pepper and Okro did you plant, how did you prepare your pepper nursery? did you plant Okro and ugu directly into beds or in nursery, did you use manure or fertilizers so far, what pesticides and fungicides do you have in place to ensure healthy crops since its rainy season? What is your planned spacing for okro and pepper?
Sorry about the many questions, I'm Just a newbie trying to catch up as fast as possible

Cheers

Good Day all,
please where can i get rice husk in Lagos and what is the cost per kg?

Thanks once again, God bless you for taking it upon yourself to dish out such valuable information.

I don't know why i can't send you my own message on NL

Please this is my whatsapp number and email address: 08139293592 austinomd@gmail.com, just send me a hi with your whatsapp number so that i can save it and communicate with you better.

Seems you have allot of knowledge of chemistry, physics and mathematics, well that is gold lol i can also balance chemical equations and whatever arithmetic required in farming, i just have to stop being lazy now and i'm good to go.

Thanks allot for your time.

Pistotita:
I have replied your email. I will send you a procedure you should follow. I don't charge for such service. I used to take a token in the past, but I have stopped it. However, you will need to buy materials like seeds, chemicals or organic stuff. I will also give you some contacts so you deal with them directly. Mine is to see you excel in your new passion. However, the greater % of all rests on your shoulder.

Managing vegetables is real science to me..For example, someone contacted me yesterday and asked me cocoa Fertilization procedure. I checked my archive and saw a 12 year chat of all major nutrients for cocoa, and sent it to him. That is the answer. But interpretation is the challenge. And he said he wants to do it himself. as he can research it. Waooo, I simply replied him that he need to understand the basis of chemistry like molar mass calculation so as to be able to formulate mixtures of fertilizers. lol. I guess it was a bit confusing for him. And since then, I have not heard from him. lol. The other option is just pay someone to do it for him. lol.

Well, I will do my best but the truth is that if you are reading secrets from professionals, they can just tell you only Nitrogen requirements for the crop. But if you understand nutritional management, you will formulate others. They can say 2nd week, give your crop 1kg Nitrogen. Lol. You must be able to know how many kg NPK or Urea is needed to supply 1kg of Nitrogen. The total weight of 1kg Nitrogen in Urea, NPK 20 10 10, NPK 15 15 15, NPK 20 20 20, all differ. Most will not tell you to use 3 teaspoon of NPK bla.bla bla. lol. So, how do you interpreted such? If you are the type who is good with arithmetic, you can work with me easily. Well, if I see that you are not good in it, I will give you the formulation, but believe me, you have limited yourself. In this Agric I have applied thermodynamics, Newtons law, Kirchorv's law, Sperposition theorem, Forces, Quadratic and Simultaneous equations, vectors analysis, even applied mathematics, etc..I have balanced chemical equations like I used to in high school...lol. And guess what, I always start with book keeping, accounting and marketing. Cos marketing moves sales. A farmer without marketing and accounting skill is limited. But you don't need details of them all, you just need ideas. And you are good to go so bro, I use science. If you think you are up to it, then, you can reach advance stage with me. Otherwise, I will just give you protocols and you keep using them. If you can follow routines, them you are good to go too.

There is an Israeli named George who works with Hazera. The guy is with over 35 years experience. George is a master of vegetable farming. Infact, when he talks about Shanty, you just wanna use that variety. I will send you some of his answers to my questions, and other answers he gave some other people. You must be able to interpret them. I am saying this cos you mentioned that I used technical terms Well, you need to know them sir so that I can give you accurate information without any distortion.


Bless you sir!

Thanks for your amazing and timely response, I like the way you outlined your points in a simple way, I've actually enjoyed this ur thread but I can't say I understood everything since some of the terms seems complex for a beginner farmer.

I will heed to your advise as I already have access to about 2 plots of land.

Please consider me as one of your new student or mentee from now on, I will send you a PM to get your WhatsApp number or email address(whichever one can be used to get you real fast), so I can be getting real time advice when I need them urgently.

Once again thanks for your timely advice.


Your new student.

Pistotita:
You can only visit farm for siteseeing in my honest opinion. Most likely the manager on farm is not that knowledgeable, or may not really share much with you. And how long will you stay there since you work. Oga, settle for 3 crops and research everything about them. Create a learning atmosphere at your backyard. Start posting pictures on this forum for suggestions, directions, and ideas. Most importantly, read about the crops you are interested in first. I did not go under any supervision of anyone before I got started. The approach I used was "German German" like we call it. lol. A be real hustler in growing in knowledge.

But if you insist on learning in a farm for practical sake, be prepared to pay money, or you are willing to start doing yes sir, yes ma there, or poll work like a laborer. And after graduation, it does not mean you will be good in it. I kniw many people who went for training, but came out clueless. And some others went there and refined their creative mind.

If you need to know how to get started by yourself, what to buy, what to research on, how to go about it, you can get in touch. However, uou should continue your search for practical on farm if you believe that is exactly what you need.


Best of luck!

Blessings!

Pistotita:
You can only visit farm for siteseeing in my honest opinion. Most likely the manager on farm is not that knowledgeable, or may not really share much with you. And how long will you stay there since you work. Oga, settle for 3 crops and research everything about them. Create a learning atmosphere at your backyard. Start posting pictures on this forum for suggestions, directions, and ideas. Most importantly, read about the crops you are interested in first. I did not go under any supervision of anyone before I got started. The approach I used was "German German" like we call it. lol. A be real hustler in growing in knowledge.

But if you insist on learning in a farm for practical sake, be prepared to pay money, or you are willing to start doing yes sir, yes ma there, or poll work like a laborer. And after graduation, it does not mean you will be good in it. I kniw many people who went for training, but came out clueless. And some others went there and refined their creative mind.

If you need to know how to get started by yourself, what to buy, what to research on, how to go about it, you can get in touch. However, uou should continue your search for practical on farm if you believe that is exactly what you need.


Best of luck!

Blessings!

Thanks for your amazing and timely response, I like the way you outlined your points in a simple way, I've actually enjoyed this ur thread but I can't say I understood everything since some of the terms seems complex for a beginner farmer.

I will heed to your advise as I already have access to about 2 plots of land.

Please consider me as one of your new student or mentee from now on, I will send you a PM to get your WhatsApp number or email address(whichever one can be used to get you real fast), so I can be getting real time advice when I need them urgently.

Once again thanks for your timely advice.


Your new student.

Pistotita:
You can only visit farm for siteseeing in my honest opinion. Most likely the manager on farm is not that knowledgeable, or may not really share much with you. And how long will you stay there since you work. Oga, settle for 3 crops and research everything about them. Create a learning atmosphere at your backyard. Start posting pictures on this forum for suggestions, directions, and ideas. Most importantly, read about the crops you are interested in first. I did not go under any supervision of anyone before I got started. The approach I used was "German German" like we call it. lol. A be real hustler in growing in knowledge.

But if you insist on learning in a farm for practical sake, be prepared to pay money, or you are willing to start doing yes sir, yes ma there, or poll work like a laborer. And after graduation, it does not mean you will be good in it. I kniw many people who went for training, but came out clueless. And some others went there and refined their creative mind.

If you need to know how to get started by yourself, what to buy, what to research on, how to go about it, you can get in touch. However, uou should continue your search for practical on farm if you believe that is exactly what you need.


Best of luck!

Blessings!

Good Day all, please I need a farm where I can gain practical knowledge of vegetable farming here in Lagos, going out of Lagos is not easy for me now since I live and work in Lagos.

Please kindly link me with any Lagos based farm that you know.

God bless you as you help a brother.

Good Day all and well-done to the OP, its such a nice thread you have here.

Please I want to make a passionate appeal to all the learned farmers in the house, I've learnt allot from many of the post here on nairaland, but I need a farm where I can gain practical knowledge of vegetable farming here in Lagos, going out of Lagos is not easy for me now since I live and work in Lagos.

Please kindly link me with any Lagos based farm that you know.

God bless you as you help a brother.

Good Day all and well-done to the OP, its such a nice thread you have here.

Please I want to make a passionate appeal to all the learned farmers in the house, I've learnt allot from many of the post here on nairaland, but I need a farm where I can gain practical knowledge of vegetable farming here in Lagos, going out of Lagos is not easy for me now since I live and work in Lagos.

Please kindly link me with any Lagos based farm that you know.

God bless you as you help a brother.

Good Day all and well-done to the OP, its such a nice thread you have here.

Please I want to make a passionate appeal to all the learned farmers in the house, I've learnt allot from many of the post here on nairaland, but I need a farm where I can gain practical knowledge of vegetable farming here in Lagos, going out of Lagos is not easy for me now since I live and work in Lagos.

Please kindly link me with any Lagos based farm that you know.

God bless you as you help a brother.

Good Day all and well-done to the OP, its such a nice thread you have here.

Please I want to make a passionate appeal to all the learned farmers in the house, I've learnt allot from many of the post here on nairaland, but I need a farm where I can gain practical knowledge of vegetable farming here in Lagos, going out of Lagos is not easy for me now since I live and work in Lagos.

Please kindly link me with any Lagos based farm that you know.

God bless you as you help a brother.

FMCASH:
0803 679 2125 mile 12 agritropic

thanks allot

Thanks mam for your response, Ibadan is a bit far from me, is there anyone you can recommend in Lagos, it will be allot of good if the recommendation is coming from an experienced farmer.

Many thanks.

jethro2:
Contact Agritropic office at Ibadan on 08030886296