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soundforce:
Man! Is this your pepper farm. Looks foreign.

Lol, thanks

Sorry, i have been unavailable.
I used NPK 15:15:15, selectively applied urea after some weeks cos some plants leaves were turning yellow.
When they started fruiting applied calcium nitrate.

GemAgro45:
Can you please share your fertilization schedule.
Thanx

FMCASH:
where did you purchase it

A contact from EWS - MRS Folake - 080 5306 22 26

Juliana7:
for 500 seeds.

Yes

uche393:
how much per sachets?

4k

Psalmy2cute:
lessons? oh pls.. I'm still an amateur, this is my first time going into veggies farming.. I'm going to look up this piquante red, is it hybrid?

Yes its hybrid.

FMCASH:
good job, please update us about the productivity of the four variety

I will boss.

Psalmy2cute:
ok, nice work... what issue did you encounter with the avenir f1??.. for me i kept getting damping off issues with efia pepper.. and I'm not sure I'll be planting this variety after this year

Seems the seeds were stale in the market, had an expiration date of 2020. I dont know if that was it, but no matter how hard we tried, it just didnt grow.

I even used tissue culture. So I moved to efia. I did this pepper project last year and it flopped. So i had old efia seeds, which expired Sept 2019. Surprisingly they grew like wild fire.

I contacted east west seeds for more and they were out of stock, tried to get more but no distributor had efia.

So I got opv from bakker brothers. Total disaster as well, none grew.

Got super habaneros as we were behind schedule, the germination was outstanding as well. But they were too expensive so we could not continue with them.

The east west seeds contacted back that piquante red was available. These grew very well as well.

I've wasted lot of money on technisem seeds and they disappointed me, I'm sticking with east west seeds.

You might not get efia again as the contact from east west says they are no longer ger producing it but replacing it with piquante red.

We did not have any damping off issues and we did not spray any fungicides. Lucky us.

Where is your farm, I would not mind to come for lessons o.

Psalmy2cute:
I once bought etna f1 pepper and on the sachet it was written plant will produce 63 days after transplant.. I'm a little bit suprised yours hasn't produced flower yet.. I'm sure by now you should be seeing buds on them, or maybe the time frame given aren't always reliable afterall, I've been removing flowers from my local opv.. just a week or two after transplant and I've also been told to prune the tip of the y branch to get a bigger plant

I've started seeing buds, gradually the flowers will come out. Several factors can change those dates, so I think they would be estimates.
I planted several varieties when avenier F1 started fumbling. I have a mixture of efia, super habaneros and piquante red F1. We have transplanted the efia and the super habaneros, both are younger than the avenier F1. We will ne transplanting the piquante red in 2 weeks.

We did not prune our peppers.

Psalmy2cute:
how did you handle whiteflies on such a large farm?

Early detection but we have been lucky the incidence was low. We have had to spray once.

But I have trained 2 of my workers on how to spot them, so they do a random walk through the farm every 2 days.

Psalmy2cute:
I did just 3 plots.. I planted efia opv mixed with local opv.. your plants should be flowering anytime soon.. what's the plants age from seedling??

97 days.

Psalmy2cute:
first buds are now visible after 76 days of sowing seeds

Lucky you. These are 62 days after transplanting. Watching out for them to start flowering.

How man ha are your peppers?

Pepper type - Avenir F1

Do you use watering can for your wetting?

From what you explained, seems what you use to wet has heavy droplets of water, it probably breaks the stems and they dont recover.

You might use something lighter in wetting.

my2chains:
Please there is this pepper seedlings problem am just suffering badly from

why is it that every single time i water the seedlings some of it will just bend and die off just like that

i had almost 80% good germination rate from the current atarodo that i just even planted

but currently now am only left with barely 30% of them still standing

please whats the cause of all this because me am kind of confused here

but am sure tomatoes dont really have this kind of problem as like this pepper seedlings

why?

@okoroemeka @ogbongenet my ogas, please which herbicides are selective to peppers??

Please which herbicides are selective to peppers?

It's just a pity that those that always want to save costs in most cases always end up spending the most. It is not like these ideas on cost saving dont work, they take time to perfect.

So if you are going into agriculture as a business, expect alot of hitches in this first year, you will learn alot and the experience will guide you in the coming years if you wish to stick with pvc pipe or you will go with drips.

Using pvc is not impossible, in my opinion if it is not research and development it is not worth it.

mirabel9:
ok thanks,
but please how many months does it take for atarodo pepper to mature for harvest?

Most varieties are between 90-100 days.

Benagro:
Which foliar fertilizer can you recommend especially organic

I use Haifa Bonus NPK 20 20 20

Psalmy2cute:
How long do you think the plant can stay in the tray??

I am not sure. These stayed these long because of land preparation, drips and mulch laying. However, they are constantly wet with folia fertilizers.
From the things i have read, the recommended duration is 3-4 weeks. But IMO this is based on the plant development.

Psalmy2cute:
How old are these plants in the picture.??

5 weeks and 4 days.

Psalmy2cute:
10gram of this seed is sold for 2k.. I'm guessing the seller is gabbyfarm on nairaland.. this is an opv seed ... and I was also told it has good germination rate.. but cant say since I've not done it myself

No, the seller is not gabby farm, I searched online and I found agromint in ibadan.
I got the seeds from them.

okoroemeka:
@ codeque that pepper can is 100 gram and at 7k is good,whatapp 08119942049 let's talk how to get that

Sorry for the late response. I am at the farm, I get to reply messages at night when network is okay.
I will sure contact you, but it might not be regarding sharing.
I am working on a pepper project of 4ha. This project failed last year, we planted less than an acre and lost 90 percent of it to flood due to poor planning.
I've fixed the issues and I'm ready to go again.
I'm searching for seeds as we are behind on the quantity to cover the project at hand. My search lead me to that seed. Which we will be planting along side technisem avenir f1 and efia which we are presently transplanting.
Fortunately our avenir f1 was not too bad as it has been reported by farmers here. We got over 5k seeds from a can, which is fair (Pix included), we made sure we kept the seeds moist in the nurseries and they grew. You could try the same as well. Keep it moist and not wet.

Psalmy2cute:
How much did you get this?

I am yet to buy it, but the seller posted it at 7k.

okoroemeka:
looks interesting,pls op share more insight on that pepper variety

I am yet to plant it o. I myself is looking for more insight so i make a mistake.

Has anyone planted these before (Bakker Brother - Hot pepper habaneros) ? Kindly share your experience. Thanks.