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Farmerakinloye6:
I will keep saying it both online and offline, know your strength (monitoring, logistics and financial aspect) and cultivate what you know you will be able to handle! One of my colleague plant twenty thousand stand, now he can't handle the harvest, bagging plus transportation to Lagos, Look at his cucumber below, out of 31 bags He brought to market on Saturday, remain 18 bags which is now ripe. He is planning to bring another 50-70 bags again . His target is 500k every five days In akure. Bottom line! know your personal and market strength before you plant

Nezzjnr:
Contains paraquat ooo... I even waited for a week

Nezzjnr:
Manual Weeding is the best abeg or use of mulching film.

I sprayed weedstorm on the beds a week before planting.

Only 60% of the Jorad i planted survived .

OfficialSam:
Fellow farmers, i salute you all. This is my cucumber farm. It's 4 weeks old. I'm a first time farmer. Hope I'm doing well?

FarmTech:
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Chloride is not so good for plants. Sulphates and Nitrates are better.

Nezzjnr:
Especially when he's doing manual watering

uche393:
Good evening bosses, please can drip irrigation work effectively with an overhead tank without pumping machine?

Size of land- 1 plot
Length of overhead tank- same a height of a 2 storey building

Farmerakinloye6:
I think it High time i she'd some( strategy) light on how to make profit from farming cucumber, mass production don't equates huge profit, true fact! Ayam coming.... do you have interest drop comment..

emmaachile2:
He may not have the answer as I think he has not planted it before. That number is too small in yield for Mydaz except you don't know what you are doing.

See this link for modest results from iita open field in the southwest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr-bbV68W9c

I still even have an old Mydaz cucumber and Colombia watermelon plant more than 12/16 weeks old with about 7 upcoming cucumber fruits on it and still even flowering in my compound.

I may document my next plants including Diva F1 tomato and Maradona f1 papaya from east west, Mydaz RZ F1 and Colombia RZ f1. We will be patiently waiting sir.

emmaachile2:
5g per plant is applying into the soil usually in two weeks interval.
If you fertigate, you cannot apply more than 15g per every 20 litres water except you want to burn your crops. 10g per 20 litres water is usually recommended.
The difference between fertigation and side dressing is that fertigation is very fast for plant uptake compared to side dressing but it cannot be applied in lump sum as the other guy advised.

ideepaul:
He didn't fertigate, that's why I said not more than 5g per plant, fertigating is a different ballgame entirely, you don't apply in lump-sum, just in little quantities but more frequently!

Cocoboms:
It's actually very possible. Have grown 4 stands of Mydas f1 in my garden before. One thing I noticed is that it has very good continuity in production. Only thing is that you'll need to feed mydas plant very well and use a very very tall stake, if you want to get good results.
First flush of fruit could be up to 6 at once, 2nd flush can comfortably produce 4 fruits with good agronomic practices. I have experienced that. But mind you, it was only 4 stands in my home garden. Replicating such commercially is always a challenge.
Another thing I love about Mydas f1 is that it's 100% parthenocarpic. Read that up if you don't know what it means.

emmaachile2:
He may not have the answer as I think he has not planted it before. That number is too small in yield for Mydaz except you don't know what you are doing.

See this link for modest results from iita open field in the southwest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr-bbV68W9c

I still even have an old Mydaz cucumber and Colombia watermelon plant more than 12/16 weeks old with about 7 upcoming cucumber fruits on it and still even flowering in my compound.

I may document my next plants including Diva F1 tomato and Maradona f1 papaya from east west, Mydaz RZ F1 and Colombia RZ f1
God bless you sir.

fiddzy:
ok sir, please can 10 big cucs be gotten from mydas with good fertilizer schedule on open field?

ideepaul:
Maxi potassium nitrate by jubaili should be a lil cheaper than that, but thingz are changing though! Just don't apply more than 5g per stand, watch out for the taste, size, and yield, and report to the house on this later. Btw, I hope the cucumber planting without manure will NEVER cross your mind again!

emmaachile2:
No micronutrients.
www.farmsquare.ng/shop/maxi-k-soluble-potassium-nitrate-fertilizer-25kg/

Nitrates such as above are more expensive than chlorides MOP 0:0:60 because of the salt content.

Farmerakinloye6:
additive as in? It 13:0:46 potassium nitrates by jubaili.

zxcvbnmlkjhgfds:
That's the name of the fungicide you're to apply.

Lanjonath:
Spray nd drench Saaf, then you can rotate with copper

emmaachile2:
I don't think I have Mydaz cucumber seeds anymore but I will check. If available, I will alert you here.
You should a variety in mind. I have programs schedule for Mydaz RZ F1 and there is a crop guide from east west for cucumbers too.

The schedule for each variety is different but similar. Mydaz F1 produces average of 20 fruits per plant and can't be compared to other varieties with less than 10 fruits averagely. The fertlization /spray program will definitely be different.

aquadude15:
I font count sir.

aquadude15:
I have being cultivating both lands.
5k per bag.
I planted greengo.
I wet with hose.
spacing between both plant is 1feet.
I use only manure

aquadude15:
I have being cultivating both lands.
5k per bag.
I planted greengo.
I wet with hose.
spacing between both plant is 1feet.
I use only manure

okoroemeka:
this is exactly the sort of wrong planting techniques we are planning to eliminate,the seed company recommends 60cm spacing for a reason,we battle downy mildrew, different insects,poor pollination,poor ventilation,poor yield, fast crop death,small fruits,etc,I have a feeling that spacing has a lot in connection with those problems

okoroemeka:
ok,you plant two crops on either side of the drip and the drip is in the middle?pls clarify

okoroemeka:
nothing can be done to save affected crops,only pray for mild cool weather,if sun blast too much the damaged roots cannot supply enough water to support the crop,that's why they wilt and die.

okoroemeka:
leave that affected area for at least 6 months to break the life cycle of those worms, before you plant again,till properly, prepare your planting holes and apply at least 2-3 grams of wormforce to each hole before applying manure

okoroemeka:
I have received feedbacks from many farmers around Nigeria and from these information I found out that planting cucumbers at 30cm spacing does not improve yield,I got very interesting feedbacks from 3 farmers that used 60cm spacing,one farmer is in Edo ,the other kwara and osun state,they managed to harvest 65-70 bags of cucumbers from 50 grams of seed I sent to them each,now this is were it gets interesting,we planted same 50grams but used 30cm spacing on the drip but just managed to get 30-40 bags,we are planning to prove beyond any doubt the effects of spacing on cucumber yield,we are preparing a site to receive 50 grams of seed at 60cm spacing,we will plant on Monday next week, production Target is 60 bags,we will update as usual with pictures,etc

okoroemeka massive...post=101565199:
many people are suffering due to lack of knowledge,I am happy to see that the small ideas we have are impacting positively on people's life's,I am still following the foot steps of the Pathfinder, Jasper 7,he is the one that started the ball rolling,it is left for us to keep the ball rolling,I am sorry for the erratic and lack of interesting posts ,we are neck deep in 3 projects,(1)500 plots for super Gene oil palm+ cassava(not a funny project)on virgin land,(2)25 plots habanero pepper,(3)10 plot habanero pepper,most times I will be walking and sleeping,