aquadude15:
pls can I start spraying my fungicide from 3pm when the sun is still out and hot

ideepaul:
the disease and stress Padma may face this dry season may not help you make necessary judgements as it has little resistance to them and poor fruit setting due to heat stress

ideepaul:
don't cultivate Padma during the dry season, go for platinum F1 to avoid stories that touch

ideepaul:
yes, Padma does well. But its relative to your pursuance of best agronomic practices

ideepaul:
this one doesn't need debate, tomato done at the right time will supercede cucumbers in terms of profitability. Imagine about 200 Padma F1 plants surely giving you a Cameroon basket twice a week( it was sold at between 7-9k at some point here), the only issue is that tomato is less forgiving if done wrongly, and you need 90+ days to hit the market from the day you sow the seeds

pipi84:

I have being in cucumber for sometime and decided to add tomato to it last year on pilot and 2plot and now 10plot......the major disaster you can get it in your farm bacterial wilt which starts with nematodes doing justice to the root of the tomatoes before the bacterial finishes the work....one mistake i did was thinking, if build a nursery and treat my seedlings well before transplanting i wont have that attack but i just experienced it lately in my farm for two weeks with me loosing over 50 of my tomato plant and the worst is, it attacked the once bearing bigger fruits more and funny enough i couldn't get a hold of velum prime nematicide to tackle it on time because of the protest and the 24hrs curfew but i was able to get it last week and applied it. now i have peace of mind cos it worked...my advice is, apply velum prime before transplanting to be safe.....there seeds that have resistance to nematode but still apply nematicide to be on safer side. one kobo experience....

Emmafly:


Talking from a commercial point of view. At ten weeks, the marketable fruits have been harvested.

okoroemeka:
a 1 hp borehole pump can only open effectively 500 meters drip tape at once,but a 5.5 hp pump can open 1000 meters or more very effective at once,I don't think it is a good idea to fertigate NPK fertlizer through drip tapes, because the npk filler is mostly made from soil materials and it can block the emitters causing huge problems,pls use only water soluble fertilizers like urea,Haifa, maxiforce, potassium nitrate,plantzyme,boostxtra.and also as a reminder super gro is not a fertlizer.

okoroemeka:
a 1 hp borehole pump can only open effectively 500 meters drip tape at once,but a 5.5 hp pump can open 1000 meters or more very effective at once,I don't think it is a good idea to fertigate NPK fertlizer through drip tapes, because the npk filler is mostly made from soil materials and it can block the emitters causing huge problems,pls use only water soluble fertilizers like urea,Haifa, maxiforce, potassium nitrate,plantzyme,boostxtra.and also as a reminder super gro is not a fertlizer.

okoroemeka:
a very interesting question,you don't have to raise an overhead tank to use your drip or less the tank is already in place,we connected our Venturi close to the pump and the pressure was much,the Venturi was not sucking,so we installed it on the PVC off take pipes for connecters with a distance of roughly 50-60 feet between Venturi and pump it started working perfectly.and from our findings it is better to use 5.5 hp water pumps to run drip tapes,the water pressure can power 1000 meters at once and deliver 4 ltr per hour at each single emitter.

okoroemeka:
during the first 4 weeks we use a high nitrogen fertilizer like Haifa or maxiforce and fertigate weekly or every 5 days,but from flowering we switch to potassium nitrate or multi k for fruiting and flowering,but apart from balanced ferts like Haifa and co we experimented with urea46% nitrogen as a replacement for more costly Haifa and maxiforce and the results were simply unbelievable,I didn't believe it is possible for a plant to grow so fast and so healthy,we used half painter roughly 2.5kg of urea to 100 ltrs of water we set the Venturi to the lowest setting and fertigated 500 meters(1666 crops) in roughly 30 mins and we switched to another 500 meters with another 100 ltrs urea stock mix and the results were better seen to believe.

Emmafly:


From my own experience, it is between 8-10weeks. at 8 weeks, the fruit/seed production becomes zero while the leaves starts turning yellow rapidly.

vickyehi:

Thank you so much for the quick response. I greatly appreciatebecome a doctor in the uk you would need to take ielts academic, then sit for your plab 1 and plab 2.

For nursing, you do not need to do the midwifery program. Just pass ielts academic and take CBT and then OSCE.

Both plan 1 and CBT are written in Nigeria while the latter is in the UK only.