How do I get the seedling? Or will the dry ones being sold by "aboki" germinate?
Days to germination: Seedlings are usually purchased Days to harvest: 4 to 7 years Light requirements: Full sun Water requirements: Will tolerate dry conditions Soil: Fertile and loose Container: Not really ideal
Introduction Dates are a very common fruit in the Middle East, and most crops are grown there or in northern Africa. The fruit is grown on a date palm tree, and it should be no surprise that they thrive only in hot dry climates. For North American growers, only zones 9 to 11 would be suitable for date palms. The most common variety is the Medjool date.
They are not the easiest trees to grow and harvest from, but growing your own dates can be a fun challenge if you enjoy trying new fruits in your garden. Just be prepared for a little more work than usual.
Dates are extremely nutritious, and have been an important food source for centuries. They are high in fiber and several B vitamins but low in calories.
Starting your Tree Date palms are either male or female, and you will need one of each in order to have any fruit. If you want to grow several trees, you can get by with one male and any number of female trees. So when you plan out your locations for date palms, make sure you have room for at least 2 trees.
Because you need a male and female tree, people generally don’t start their trees from seed because you would never know what the gender will be for many years. Purchased seedlings are usually cuttings from an existing palm, so they should be properly labeled by their gender.
Choose a sunny location and plant as you would any other kind of tree, digging a hole large enough to hold the roots. Each tree will grow to more than 50 feet tall, and up to 30 feet across. If that is excessive, try a 10-foot dwarf variety.
As mentioned, you need 2 trees but because you will be pollinating by hand (see more on that in the next section), you don’t necessarily have to plant the trees next to each other if your space doesn’t allow it.
Tree Care Dates are very slow growing trees, so don’t be discouraged if your trees aren’t doing very much each season. It’s easy to over-water a date palm, which will kill it. Regular rainfall is usually sufficient, unless it’s been dry for a prolonged period of time or your tree is still getting established.
Date palms are not pollinated by insects or birds, but by the wind. With only a few trees, you are taking a risk that nothing will pollinate and therefore will produce no fruit. That means part of your annual gardening routine will have to be hand-pollinating your date trees.
Early each year, the male trees will produce sheaths of pollen. You will have to collect it (it’s just a fine powder) and then dust it over the female flowers once your female trees are in bloom. Ask at the nursery where you get your trees for more details on this. It’s really not a difficult task.
Date palms will grow very long and sharp thorns or spines along its base, so either plant your trees somewhere away from regular walkways or cut the spines off as they grow. It won’t hurt the plant to snip them off. Once your fruit starts to set, you will want to thin it out by picking some of the smaller fruits before they ripen. Otherwise, you will have a big harvest of tiny dates. It’s not uncommon to take out half or more of the growing dates to get a better final crop.
Pests and Diseases
Most of the insect pests that attack the date palm are not found in North America, so anyone growing dates in America will probably find their trees to be fairly insect-free. Birds, mice and squirrels can be a problem once the fruit starts to ripen though. Date farmers usually put mesh bags around the strands of dates so they can ripen without being stolen.
When you have caught a fish, do you still feed it warms to draw its attention?
Chioma4eva: I mean they toast you for weeks endlessly and try to get your love and attention and when you finally give them the attention and give them the chance to win your heart and maybe after dates and probably sex, they lose interest and go cold. Why is this so? Is love dead in Nigeria?
[You , what job do you have? Can you feed your self without depending on ***? quote author=Realtvnigeria10 post=115373299]A Nigerian lady has gone online to mock a club big boy that wooed after she discovered what he does for a living.
She said that the guy was repairing phones at the market just a day after he was spraying money on her at a night club.
The young lady shared a video showing when she was walking towards his work and she filmed him in the market.
She thought about going to greet him and make him feel embarrassed following the events of the previous night where he took on the role of a big spender.
Reacting, captainjeffgoodvibe said; How is that your business na
doctall_kingsley; Olosho Dey yab person wey get handwork nawaooo
the.estherrr; What na happen Did he steal the money Nawaa
myhairven; So what is funny now he shouldn’t hustle again?what is the essence of this video now ?
I am a Mechanical Engineer, I stand to tell you that this idea is very very wrong, reason being that, enclosing and air-cooled engine will certainly lead to serious damage or fire. Such generators are meant to be cooled by natural air ventilation just like motorcycles, it has "fins" at the kick starter, this rotates at high rpm during operation to cool down the engine and maintain a smooth run. By boxing it, you starve it of this, and it has serious consequences, only time will tell.
officialwdhtv: Nigerian men fabricate sound proof noise cancellation box for generators.
It depends on you budget and planning, every month, me and my wife buys food stuff in bulk, once am paid. Then buy 25l keg if fuel for generator use as back up to NEPA light. Pay tithe, pay utility bills. All will be done in one day or two. The keep small miscellaneous for emergency.
After that, some days, I do spend a kobo because I don't pay transport to work neither my wife.
Me and my wife talk to each other often on WhatsApp calls and chat.
Once once we fit step out cool evening, to take our favourite beer/pepper meat while she take shawama.
Na so I d roll my life the go oo. Pikin never come.
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psalmz: I just sat down and did some calculations and noticed I spend nothing less than 8k daily on feeding my wife n kids and also fueling my car and generator,some one said I am extravagant ,pls how true it ?
Prayer only work when you put your ideas and talent into work, if not. No amount of prayer or fasting will give u "shishii". God said " he blessess the works of our hands" not our fasting, so get it.
Ever8090: thank you...but still keep your advice to yourself....my tongue will not stop praying to him as long as I still have the breath of life in me,.even if he do not answer me, I will still praise and continue longing for his meecies. So your advice reman useless to me...
I experienced the same thing last year, I got an alert of #20k on my access bank. I was not expecting money from anyone. So I waited for two weeks no calls nor message from anyone regarding the money. I tried to trace it from my banking app, it only showed me the transfer was done through an ATM. I spoke with my banker friend, he said " my bank will finally contact me regarding the wrong transfer to my account " till today , over a year, my bank is yet to contact me. The the money is still lying in my account waiting the day, the owner calls. But anyday, the real owner comes for it ,confirmed by the bank, I will give it back willingly.
I feel like seeking your advise about how I can accelerate the process of returning the money that I guess was wrongly transferred to my personal bank account.
About two months ago, I received credit alert of about ₦200k in one of my savings accounts. Based on the narration of the credit alert, it shows that It was done through ATM and I did not do any transaction to have been expecting such money. I have been expecting to get alert for reversal of the transaction but the money is still sitting in my bank account.
I have also been expecting my banker to have contacted me for approval to reverse the transaction but I have not been contacted by my banker.
I was considering the option of complaining to my banker to trace the owner from their ends but some people discouraged me from doing so; stating that those bankers may conspire with someone and falsely claim the money.
I have been thinking of possibilities of tracing the owner by myself but credit alert did not state the details of the account from which the money was transferred to my bank account.
I am feeling concerned for the person who did the transfer because his fund has been tied down.
A banker told me that the owner must have complained to his/her bank but banks ways of attending to the customers complain is slow but definitely they will contact me for reversal.
Do I keep my fingers crossed and be expecting my banker to contact me for reversal approval? or Complain to my banker to help me locate the owner of the transaction?
Or any other suggestions will be welcome from you but my objective is to hasten process of returning the money to the true owner.
wd2454418: the farm location is at Owode. Each pig is going for 65k. 4 are pregnant right now as I was told by my manager. 1large white and 3spotted durock are pregnant. The picture attached were taking January. That was the last time I went to check how the pigs are doing well.
Sex is a natural strong feelings that comes on its own, its not a sin to feel Honey, we are fashioned that way. I still believe the fact that nothing is impossible, do not rule out the option of getting back to your once "lovely" husband, unless what caused the impending separation is life threatening. Aside that, summon the courage "not easyooo" to put a call to him and say your "sorry from the depth of your heart" that you want your Happy marriage back. Do not count who is at fault here.
Aside that, open up your mind to new relationship, put your past behind and kinly look out for genuine man. Do not forget to work on your body and dressing too, because men are attracted by sight.
Lastly, never be too rigid, be friendly affectionatel with the lucky man who come. " use ur brain too" you must not let the man "in the hole" without a clear confirmation. God know our earnest disires without evil intent.
Optimistic4life: I'm trying hard to live a life free from sin and sexual immorality and I am doing pretty well but of recent, my hormones/body have been raging and I am finding it difficult to cope.
It's 18months I have been separated and there is no getting back together.
Were you ever in my situation, how did you overcome without involving in sex/masturbation?
I just need some words of encouragement.
Its really not easy and it has become some sort of distraction.
The reason I do not want to have a male friend is because of my fear for God.
This is a migratory bird, it flew out from a game reserves, they travel over the continents and return back to there base, its been used for studies of wild life of birds. Its unfortunate it died, anything can kill it.
Where are u? Please do not kill the innocent baby, the deed has been done. Its not gonna be easy, but visit any of the charity homes, deliver n give them the baby , if your in PHC, PM.
Darhmmy: We used to be lovers back in uni , We broke up at some point and lost contact. Earlier this year we reconnected at a party and it was obvious we still had feelings for each other.
We started dating and everything seemed nice at first. He never told me he was married. After months of dating , i started to get suspicious as he wouldn't let me visit his home , instead he was always coming to mine and meeting up at hotels. We had a big fight about it and he finally told me the truth. He kept on pleading and asking that we continue dating. I couldn't even leave if I wanted to, I was in love with him.
I am 2 months pregnant and he has been avoiding me. He calls just once in two days and has told me to do whatever I want with the pregnancy , that he is fine with my decisions. I want to keep him and the baby and I'm scared he may ghost up on me. Last night I found his wife and some of his relatives on Facebook and I want to send them texts about it. I really need advise on this.
OK, I will try it out , I already have a YouTube accounts /AdSense too.
byrron: My number 1 at the moment is Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) which involves publishing books on Amazon which could either be fictional, non-fiction, low content or no-content books.
Go to YouTube and search for Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing tutorials and learn about what it is all about and all that it entails to get started.
This is a real profitable business when done correctly and earning the amount on the title of this thread is very achievable with time and not immediately just like every other legitimate business out there.
Use a small scissors for shaving, do not shave the hairs completely to the root, I think you skin is sensitive, I experience that each time I use blade to shave, but with scissors, no boils, no itching and no rashes.
silentvoice: This appearance has been on my private part for as long as I can remember. It doesn't itch except when I shave on some occasions. I'm a 23 years female and not sexually active, is there a way for me to clear this? Does anyone have experience on what this is? I also keep having reoccurring boils close to my vagina
mespusinglez: So yester-night I was sleeping and i heard some noises but didn't go out...so this morning I saw this dead cat in my backyard exactly the place I heard the noise yesterday
What do you think possibly kill this cat because i locked my gate and there is no way Dog can enter