Stephenmoka4:
The beans must have good amount of leaves now. Any update?

Your post reminded me now that I've got some pictures on my phone I took from the farm. I think FUAMPEA 2 is worth all the hype after all. We have not sprayed the beans yet and we haven't had any serious issues so far with pests

Finnish:


What do you feed your goat? Or what's the easiest feed to make/give to goats?

Sorry for the late reply. I have put up there some if their feeding regiments. Thank you

Modernist:
Well then you shouldn't have messaged me then the topic says "treat as urgent" and you're telling me you don't like haste preparations.

Lol

'Haste preparations' : conceptualized above is relative to time and arrangement. 'Arrangement' as a logicalized sequence of events or occurrences.

Even when you have said 'treat as urgent' , then it should contain some elements of a logical sequence of plan as dictated by events or occurrences relative to a short time in execution.

This is business. Things could be discussed over and that is why boardrooms are equipped with comfortable chairs to sit, good tables to talk.

I'm always open to dialogue

Modernist:
okay just message me on the whatapp number where are you located?

We have been doing that for some time now. But how are our plans for tomorrow so as to know how to adjust my schedules too. I don't like haste of preparation at all, it could make me change my mind.

NOGRUDGES:
How are diseases that affect beans prevented? How soon can spraying of crops start?
I'm interested in farming beans soon.

I will give a breakdown of the diseases soon but I think one should worry about pest infestation and control as in, if you're planting in the south, and also climate manipulation. I will you post some pictures here and necessary manipulations you might need. I have not applied insecticides and we're planning even once or organic

Farm B

More

Weeded area

I was on farm today to see how well the cowpeas were doing. Weed was a major challenge on Farm A and we have started weeding today to complete that soon and on Farm B, while the weeds had been great reduced, the beans are coming up but will need proper weeding this month. Manual weeding is majorly done in cowpea as its selective herbicides are majorly on trial and scarce.

Modernist:
Please text me on this number, 08185092085 WhatsApp is down.

I'm on 1% now. I'll try to get my phone charged, once that is done, I'll contact you.

I was on farm today to get a look on amount of those products

Modernist:
Fellow nairalanders I'm in dire need of palm kennel shells, 500 bags upward, if you or someone you know wants to sell you can please, send me a mail, I'll ask for proof, and come to the location to come and carry them.

I've sent you a mail already

Izzy, never disappointing.

Thanks for the broilers today. The half carton extra wey I no get on those cartons pain me o. Keep the good services going bro.

Izzymore:
CHANGE OF PRICE!!!!!!!!!

Bro, I am waiting for the updates this morning

I will post more pics for clarification as time permits me.

To be continued later.......

Compare the thickness of the green layer with that of this TMS

See the green layer

Stem

TME 419 root branching

TME 419. How do I identify it? Frankly speaking it could be very tricky to identify a variety of crop from others of the same kind even by experts who develop these varieties. It will take a kind of genetic investigation. It is just like trying to differentiate near identical twins of same sex at first hand. It will surely take time and close observation and guidance from their parents especially the mother to pass you when you say this is the first, when it is the second and vice versa.


Spot identification could just be expressed in terms of accuracy, say 60-100%. Therefore, whatever I put here is still subjected to some level of error as dictated by knowledge and innovation advancements in plant breeding.

Characterisation of TME 419 (I will post pictures to buttress the explanations)

1.Height
It could usually attain a relative high height compared to other varieties but the earliest TMS too are usually high, so is that a base? I will buttress more

2. Branching
TME 419 does branch but this is not common and not too rear. Usually the branches don't pass more than 2 and uncommonly 3 but all usually originate from inside the soil or heap. Those of the earliest TMS could pass more than 2 and as much as 6 and all also originate from the soil or heap. Also, there could be branching, usually 2 at the top of TME 419, this is usually short and uncommon.

3. Stem cuttings
Because of its unusual branching habit, mature stem cuttings are usually robust compared relatively to other cassava varieties of same age. Close to this is TMS 4(2) 1425 but it is not as big as TME 419. It stems are usually slender and at maturity not larger than indigenous varieties.

4. Internodes of stem cuttings
What is internode? The space between two successive ( leaf that follows the next available one) leaf node (point where leaf attachs to the stem). This is usually not too close in TME 419 and not too far, not more than 5-10cm apart. Close to this is TMS 4(2) 1425 but it is slender.

Colour of stem (transcribes to stem cuttings)
You see, TME 419 was based on efficient use of sun energy to make starch, therefore is it highly greenish (plants use chlorophyll which is green in colour to make sugars which becomes starch after some storage of some sugars). If you look at the stem, the colour usually range from creamy ash to creamy bluish green, if you peel this slightly, with low effort, you will see a layer of well greenish part. This is why this is used to estimate the duration of stay of stem cuttings before planting as the colour quality drops as it stay longer on ground. This is also present in TMS 96/023 (thereabouts). What difference?

5. Leaf colour
(A) Young leaves (emergence leaves)
I. Colour: Due to low anthocyanin (purplish) content, the young leaves are usually greenish and not the conventional brownish purple. This is also present in TMS 96/023, TMS 4(2)1425, TMS 98/0510. Let's differenciate.
TMS 98/0510's young leaves are not usually greenish but greener than other varieties apart from above. So you arrange it in increasing order of greeness. Yeah that's it
Other varieties - TMS 98/0510-TMS 4(2) 1425- TMS 96/023 - TME 419

(B) Mature leaves
Colour: very green and near ruby green. Also seen in the above TMS(es) outlined in the above explanation and not in so you arrange it.

(C) Leaf petiole (that long part at the end of the leaves that connect the leaves together with the stem) yeah, you got it?
TME 419's petiole is green. TMS 98/0510 is also green but more space between internodes (I explained above) and young leaves not as green as TME 419's, while that (petiole) of TMS 96/023 is somewhat red towards the leaves end and green towards the stem part

I'm damn tired now from field work and moreover by battery is draining but I'll try post pictures to buttress the explanations although with brief note attached, that's if they load.

To be continued next time..........

Christistruth00:



What are the properties of the 419 Cassava variety

I remembered this post today as I was walking through an old cassava field. Although the cassava planted by the person are multivariate
(many varieties) but I sighted like two stands of TME 419. I will post the pictures here tomorrow as long as I remember to do this. And I think you will be able to judge its performance compared to others while not be cared for at all and under zero tillage.

IamAsiri:


So it's possible to plant honeybeans number 1 here in the southwest?

Yes sir. But let see how it goes. What were once impossible are becoming possible now. Agriculture has really advanced sir.

Planting to be done tomorrow right inside the dying bush tomorrow

Nodumax

Spraying continued today

This part sprayed 3days ago

Glyphosate brand used

Butachlor brand used

Unit B

Land preparation
Also zero tillage. No bush clearing at all.

Chemical application:
Double knockout system

A. Systemic herbicide: Glyphosate with isopropylamine salt

B. Contact herbicide: Paraquat dichloride

C. Preemergence: Butachlor (tolerated by rice and legumes)

Rate: 200ml of A + 10ml of B + 100g of C in 16 litres of water using knapsack sprayer (1 load)

Contact herbicides must be applied with care in double knockout system. Systemic herbicides need parts that are alive to be absorbed and effective and contact herbicides kill those parts. The essence of the system is to provide a wide range weed control especially in areas where different weed types are found and also to provide a rapid killer effect from the outside to the inside as different weeds are sensitive to different herbicides.

Seeds have begun germinating as at today. They were planted on 11th September.

Planting operation: UNIT A

Land preparation: UNIT A

Ife Bimpe

FUAMPEA 2