₦airaland Forum

If yellowing occurs mostly in the lower part of the plants, its most likely nitrogen deficiency. If the lowest leaves are green while leaves in the middle or top part of the plants are yellow, then its it's probably magnesium deficiency.

I'm preparing to plant cu999 with Murano. I hope the cu999 will yield fruits of a darker hue.

I aim to harvest around 40 days, so the cucumbers
can be smaller. Buyers in my area won't be keen on huge cu999 fruits!

partnerbizz5:
Mouth action doesn't cause hepatitis.

You're wrong.

'HBV has been found in vaginal secretions, saliva, and semen. MouthAction and especially anal sex, whether it occurs in a heterosexual or homosexual context, are possible ways of transmitting the virus. '

https://www.webmd.com/hepatitis/hepatitis-and-sex-fr

What worries me is the way people boast that their boyfriend or girlfriend is 'clean'.

Presumably, by clean, they mean having the appearance of cleanliness.

Little do they know that physical appearance is not a reliable indicator of sound health.

If you're into MouthAction or have unprotected sex with someone other than your spouse or the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, you could be on the road to ruining your life.

Beside Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C is also nasty.

omerukokwuru:
please can you provide a solution as they have no idea what to do not doing any thing about it as you rightly said would make a bad situation worse

Ultimately citizens on their own can't deal with the crisis. What they can do though is make the kidnapping menace the predominant issue in public discuss on local radio, TV stations, market & work places. This will raise awareness and hopefully increase pressure on the State govt to tackle the issue.

Truth though is that, I don't think there are easy solutions

For me, I believe there's a direct correlation between the deteriorating economic situation in the country the the rising spate of economic violence, such as kidnapping.

Unless the economic situation improves drastically & soon, the Nigerian society faces worsening chaos.

Freshbaba95:
Day light robbery in Benin has sky rocketed after few years of peace. One day yahoo will be gone. But Nigerians and security operatives should expect something worst

I've had a serious need to travel to Benin for a project for more than 6 months now, but I won't go, due to a first hand report of day light armed robbery. I'm sure someone will tell me its not that bad but I just can't be bothered to take the risk.

Restricting one's travel outside Lagos is one coping strategy I've adopted. Not that Lagos sef is that safe.

Owo-Benin, kidnapping
Akure-Owo, Kidnapping
Idoani-Ipele (I think), kidnapping (avoid this road at all cost)
Akure-Ilesha, kidnapping
Akure-Ado-Ekiti, kidnapping
Ore-Benin, kidnapping
Ore-Lagos, kidnapping.

I'm told the only major road in Ondo-State without kidnapping (yet) is Akure - Ondo - Ore road.

Most surviving victims insist their kidnappers are northerners & spoke 'Hausa'. I suspect local perpetrators are involved too.

All over the State, travellers face serious risk of kidnap, but most people just don't know or are so confused and helpless, they hope it'll all go away quietly. But it is only getting worse.

Moving Fashola to Chief of Staff might create a space for a Ambode to fill Lagos ministerial slot.

2 time Governor of Lagos State to Chief of Staff. Isn't that a downgrade?

At the end of the day, a chief of staff is a P.A, albeit a powerful one that has the ear of a powerful president.

okoroemeka:
Organic farming is suitable for small holders. Using manure on a farm of 1 hectare is almost impossible expect you have a very big poultry or piggery farm as if you factor in the logistics and manpower needed to apply manure on 1 hectare in the deep bush you will see that the cost is very prohibitive.

Good observation.

Dismissing the cost & challenges of gathering & using something as basic as a chicken poop is just bone headed arrogance.

I have a 2 hectare land, but a large portion of the land is just not good for arable farming, but I've had to manage using a small portion at a time
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To grow cucumber, which has proved to be most sensitive to poor land, we often have to dig holes (dry season) into mostly hard clay, then hire Dyna to collect rotten saw dust from a sawmill more than 10 kilometres away. For 1000 plant holes, we need 4 loads of Dyna. That's 10k gone. If the Dyna owner wasn't my neighbour, it would be even more costly. Then there's all the other other expenses. Seeds, Labour, water pumping, security (herds men challenges!), fertiliser, fungicides, insecticides etc

If we plant 1000 plants every 4 weeks or so, you can imagine the cost.

Now, the other gentleman said mulch is readily available. I asked him to please suggest one that is readily available on a farm, as my farm for instance mostly has broad leaf vegetation, not grass. He suggested that grass is everywhere, if I don't have it on my farm, I could get Okada to get from another location. Wth How much grass can I move from several kilometres away to mulch 1000 plants on a rolling 4 week basis. That'll require hiring a Dyna yet again to move grass to my farm!

I said organic farming is not realistic for everyone. The nearest poultry to me is more than 10 kilometres away. So, another huge expense to be packing chicken poop up & down. All for cucumber that the price go up & down like a yo yo. His response is that some people are lazy & looking for quick profit in farming He can't understand why a farmer shouldn't rear animals on the side for manure. But what if the farmer doesn't want that additional cost or is just not interested in animal husbandry?

Is this guy an internet farmer or what?

He talks of organic farming citing Israel & Holland. But less than 10% of the foods produced in these countries is organic.

He talks of mixed cropping & all, which is all nice & good, but is not particularly suitable for large farms.

People need to realise & respect the fact that every farm & farmer's situation is different. Some have the luck of a reasonably good land. Grass for mulching & manure might be within easy reach of their farm. But we are not all that lucky. And when people are sharing personal experiences, the least we could do is read & respect each farmer's situation & not be patronising.

Being told, by someone who refuse to acknowledge that each farmer faces peculiar challenges, that you are not doing this or that because you're looking for quick profit is laughable.

Pistotita:
Better you go for mulch. Though if I see a responsible farmer, I can recommend a procedure. But I cannot write such here. Readers will abuse it. Stick to mulch.

I'm fascinated to know the type of mulch that is cheap, readily available, & easy for farmers to gather for use in Southern Nigeria. By the time you clear a mini forest for cucumber farming, there's very little available in the form of mulch. Most of the vegetation is often giant broad leaf plants that are no good for mulching. Grass, which would make a good mulch is often no where to be seen in these forests.

Sawdust, which is cheap & readily available is not an acceptable mulch for cucumber.

Please o, can you mention one mulch that fits the criteria I mentioned above, most importantly that is free & readily available in a farm environment.

If one has to pay for mulch, pay for Labour, pay for insecticides & fungicides, fertiliser or even pay transport to pack chicken poop from a poultry, pay for this, pay for that and on top of all these, face too much sun, too much or too little rain, contend with disease infestations, it's no wonder, making tangible return on investment in vegetable farming is tough.

Well said to th. I am shocked Technisem, East West, and ThaiAgro only are what people discuss nairaland. Seeds dey ooo. There are more cultivars around.[/quote]Perhaps you could mentioned one or two of these other seeds.

Something I notice about Tokyo (though I'm using it for the first time) is that it is has relatively few leaves but a large number of fruit. I like the fact it isn't bushy. Only challenge so far is DM.

But as you said, with the right approach, the DM can be managed. I will stick with Tokyo for now.

I'm planting cu999 and a new batch of Tokyo next week.

I planted greengo in November. Wasn't too impressed.

jidestroud:



Just when I was beginning to fall for your anti-chemical crusade. Or is it just a thing for cucumber people

The things is, we really don't care why we push off into the market. I once went to get some field experience with the farmers along Lasu gate. It was thrilling for me, got so much knowledge from real time farmers and was so surprised to see how much vegetable farming could rake in in such a short period of time. Well, that's beside the point. While there, I saw some abnormalities. Most of the vegetables produced there are actually being exported outside the country. These vegetables are grown with organic manure, almost without synthetic chemicals nor fertilizers while those pushed into the naija markets were those with defects, sprayed anyhow...etc. I was forced to voice on one particular occasion; why una no fit just do the same thing for all the vegetables?. But, he was quick to defend that there's actually nothing wrong in using fertilizers and spraying chemicals, just that for them to meet the exportation standard, those are things they must do. What a foo.lish response!!!

I think the gentleman should be able, if he so desires, to keep a foot in both sides of the 'inorganic' vs. 'organic' farming debate.

Militarising the debate, and demanding that people should only promote organic farming will only serve to drive a wedge between farmers.

There is a lot of good in practicing organic farming, though there is no scientific proof that eating organic foods is better for you than eating foods grown under responsible pesticide use.

Also, Nigeria will not be able to feed its people, if all farmers are forced to practice organic farming i.e, no inorganic fertilizer, pesticides and fungicides. More than 90% of all foods in the Nigerian market today, including shoprite, are grown inorganically. Organic farming cannot meet all our food needs in this country.

I think what would be most beneficial is better education for farmers about responsible use of inorganic inputs.

Pistotita:
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You have really abused Imidacloprid. Let Lara force gold rest for now since it contains imiclopoid. You can formulate it yourself by mixing Lara force and imiforce. lol. I am sure no viral diseases on your plants cos you don bombard am. lol.

I still favor organic more, and one can make profit there too. One just needs the right strategy to market the products. Of course, not to open market.

Please reduce chemical as soon as the fruits start getting big. Have pity on the consumers. A beg. Cancer is real

Thanks for the suggestions for treating the downy mildew.


I agree on sensible use of insecticides.


We had a serious infestation of a red (with black spots) insect, very early on, with leaves being eaten at a frightening pace. When the situation had not improved by week 2, we had to spray insecticides. Our weekly application of Lara Force was well within the manufacturer's recommended usage of between 3 - 7 days. As the rains had become relentless over a period of about 2 weeks, again we had to take preventative fungicide measure, hence Mancozeb. Again we stuck to recommended dosage.

On reflection, the addition of a very tiny amount of about 5ml of imidacloprid to LaraForce Gold in a 20 litre knapsack should have been avoided. We will not repeat that in the future.

I think our customers can feel safe about our cucumbers as we generally do not spray unless we absolutely need to. Also, you said, you wouldn't eat cucumber from our farm because of the amount of 'chemicals' we spray, but a few sentences before that, you had said our downy mildew problem arose because we did not spray enough mancozeb Meaning we should have sprayed even more chemicals?

Anyway, thanks again.

My Tokyo2 f1 cucumber started off crazily with each plant having between 6 and 10 little cucumbers on it! It was unbelievable.

Then suddenly the leaves started turning yellow this affected the development & size of the fruits. But new, lush leaves are still coming out from the top half of the plants. Pls Pistotita, do you kow the likely cause & suggested solution?

We have been spraying mancozeb + imidacloprid + Lara force gold every week since week 2. This is now week 5.

Here's a picture taken today of a yellow leaf

My Tokyo2 f1 cucumber started off crazily with each plant having between 6 and 10 little cucumbers on it! It was unbelievable.

Then suddenly the leaves started turning yellow this affected the development & size of the fruits. But new, lush leaves are still coming out from the top half of the plants. Anyone knows the likely cause & suggested solution?

We have been spraying mancozeb + imidacloprid + Lara force gold every week since week 2.

Here's a picture taken today of a yellow leaf [img][/img]

I wonder what this lady does for a living.

She seem to spend a lot.

Is having one's picture taken every few days so lucrative?

What befuddles me is how one man can keep fighting himself.

Every couple of days, Mr Rufai or his hangers-on makes a new statement on Tinubu or Godfatherism, but Tinubu has not responded once.

The saying that it takes two to fight appears redundant in Mr Rufai's case.

Ordinary Japanese taxis have had this feature for more than 20yrs. What's special

Europeans copying cheap Asian technology and charging the world gazillion dollars for it. But this business model is not going to work for long.

Give it another 15 years, Asians (Chinese, South Koreans, Japanese etc) will run European manufacturers out of many markets. Already, they can't compete with Asians technologically in many areas.

This Governor gets a lot of flak from people.

But I blame workmen for this poor workmanship.

Was the Governor expected to personally supervise every inch of concrete poured in the State.

Many Nigeria workmen are callous, selfish & incompetent.

frankyychiji:
Wake up and smell the coffee Oga. This is obviously another Tinubu's plot to whittle down fashola's influence in SW

Beyond Lagos, Fasola has very little influence in the SW.

His role as Minister of Power has actually dimmed his light somewhat. People have suddenly observed, perhaps unfairly, that he is not 'all that.'

Osinbajo is the star boy in the SW. He's loved & respected across the SW. Fasola is respected, but not loved. My opinion.

Ibadan airport is almost 3hrs away by car. It can't serve Akure and vice versa.

Flight from Lagos to Akure is less than 30mins and the planes are nearly full every day. Excellent for business trips to Ondo.


If you like small, no-hassle airport experience, Akure airport is a little jewel.


It must stay.

If you put the current Barcelona & real Madrid teams in the premiere league. Neither would be guaranteed top 4.

The premier league is relentless, very few breaks, even on boxing day you are playing. All that slow boring tika tika of Barcelona will not hold up for long.

The play is so fast in the EPL that Messi will just not have as much time as he has on the ball in Spain & the tackles are like Kong fu at times. Messi will prob still emerge as best player, but that Barcelona team will struggle to cope on a cold, wet, winter away game at some of the teams in the lower echelons of the EPL.

There's a reason the world can't get enough of the EPL. It's fast, unforgiving, rough, hard, largely unpredictable, mostly crazy & full of drama.

Barcelona needs about 15 passes to move the ball
10 meters. Mtchew... In the EPL, from attacking in the opponent's 6 yards box to finding yourself defending in your own box may take less than 2 passes, & you'll be wondering, what tha hell

Look at the Police station. How does a nation expect police men & women to function well when their work environment is so poor.

I was at a Police Station over the weekend. Most of the louvres had fallen off. The doors were barely standing. Police men were siting on benches, & white plastic chairs that could barely take their weight.

Is it any surprise that when bandits attack these poorly maintained station, the Police take to their heels.

Too large a proportion of that population is uneducated & there's zero effort to improve the situation.

Good education is an important key to unlucking opportunities to improve one's lot in life.

I fear for this country.

Very sad. A modest, self-respecting lady who stayed at home with her parents and worked with pride for a modest income had her life cut short by maurading bloodletting thugs.

What threat could this helpless lady have posed to 3 men to justify being shot dead.

And now the Police will compound the father's grief. I hope the community will rally round to help her parents.

This must be the most frustrating country on earth.

One has to have some sympathy for Gbajabiamila.

He has been in the trenches as a leader in the House all these years, it seems like common decency to accord him the privilege to become speaker, unless of course there are competence issues.

However, those from his party who wish to contest for the position have a right to do so.

stonemasonn:
lol, you know how much it cost to build a road at Lekki?

So, one of the largest industrial complexes in the world can be built in Lekki, but ordinary roads can't? What planet are you from?


Someone mentioned above that new roads are not needed because the fuel will be 'shipped to Apapa' for distribution. But this same Apapa is in chaos and has been for at least 10 years now, yet we have no plan to shift distribution elsewhere?

What a country.

Nigeria and poor planning.

Dangote refinery could be operational within 2 years yet the road infrastructure needed to move products have not been started. Construction of the much-talked about Coastal road in Lekki should have been started by now. Extensive expansion of the road network linking into Ogun State and connecting to Lagos- Ore express way should also have started.

I fear for the traffic chaos that is coming to Lekki/Ajah axis.

ogbongenet:
COME LETS FARM TOGETHER

Is Forever F1 Shombo?

Mr A's household income is N1m per year but he needs around N1.5m each year to maintain his family. Luckily, because he earns a regular salary, creditors are willing to lend him up to N300,000 each year. That brings the total money at his disposal each year to N1.3m. Out of this, he must pay back N350,000 to cover 'orisirisi' loans he has accumulated irresponsibly over the years. So, the true amount Mr A has to spend this year is around N950,000. He has too many children. The family is dysfunctional. The children & even Mr A and his wife steal from the little the family has. Mr A needs to cut back expenses in order to reduce his debts & expenditure but he can't because even with N950k, the family is barely surviving. One of Mr A's children tells him all he needs to do is increase the family budget from N1.5m to N3.5m and that will solve the problem. But how can Mr A spend N3.5m if the total money available to him, including loans from bank, family members and staff cooperative is only N950k? Mr A's dillusional son should please explain to his father and the rest of us watching their family travails from afar.

THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS THE SITUATION NIGERIA HAS FOUND ITSELF FOR MANY YEARS NOW. It's difficult to see a way out.

The eye-opener here is that artists' earnings are quite modest. An A-list Nigerian artist goes all the way to Turkey to perform for something like $6k, which is then shared amongst 3 or more people.

So, all the Bentleys, Range Rovers and flashy lifestyle they post on social media? How is that lifestyle funded

And see the way they were monitoring each other & sharing a few thousand dollars show by show, piece meal by piece meal like market women (no disrespect to market women intended). When will Nigerians do business in a professional way. Why aren't these monies going into a central pot and shared as dividends / profit, say every 3 months. But then again, the accountant /manager in charge will probably steal some. What a country. What a people.

I understand she said something like 'we no trust you again o...'

The 'we' there probably means APC Lagos. Not Yorubas. She's an EDO woman anyway.

Also, what she's claimed to have said actually sounds like a friendly banter. It certainly doesn't come across like a threat.

She should have known that people will twist her words anyway, and so, should have quietly voted and mind her business.