Benagro:

Can it work for plantain too

I'm not sure

Sterlingsolutns:
@frankedoka

Please advise, i think this product is specifically meant for Irish Potatoes,Yams and Cassava. Have you successfully used it in tomato farms before?

Thanks

I have personally contacted the company manufacturing it and they guaranteed it works for tomato, cassava, coco yam and Irish potato. Though I have not used it Personally but those who have used it said it works...and I believe them.

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Zhitsu:


Good evening brother
Can l get 5g of Murano 2F1 and plant it along side Cu999 on a plot??

And do you know where l can get staking net?? And how much is it?

How much can l get 5g of Murano please?


Thanks

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aquadude15:
what can be the cause of this pls.
I noticed it after spraying my cucumber with zforce and ridomil gold

I have had similar experience in my farm last year.
You sprayed high concentration of the product under the hot sun. That's why.
It will clear on its own. Do not panick but don't stress the plants again.

House, is it good to use rain gun irrigation sprinkler to water a pepper farm right from transplant to maturity?

okoroemeka:
what we do after applying manure and we want to plant,is to use hose and water pressure to water each hole,what it does is that it turns the manure with soil and also irrigates for good germination, we use this tactics even if we will use drip irrigation, but you can turn it manually with shovel or hand trowel .

Thanks a lot. Please Sir what procedure is recommended? I read somewhere that after making the holes on the bed at the specific point u want to plant, then you apply a nematicide followed by a phosphate based fertilizer then u apply 2kg of chicken manure and then plant your seed. Do u recommend this method, sir?

Please Sir Okoroemeka, after doing your basal chicken manure application, are you advised to sow inside the manure or cover the manure with sand and sow on top of it?

okoroemeka:
this is the pics of the elusive Jos variety sent to me by frankedoka,I think it will be better for the forum to has a say on the variety,I have a strong suspicion that it is an opv variety probably marketer ,pointsett or supermarketer,just a strong suspicion because of short size and visible spines it cannot be a hybrid,let's have different opinions,and if there are farmers around Jos that is reading pls input your opinion or findings let us know what that cucumber is called or how to get it,I am even suspecting that it can be recycled Hybrid variety that has been planted and recycled over the years had turned to another type of variety that is peculiar to Jos alone.

Yes you are right. Those are the pictures of the jos variety. I've been trying to send the pics here but to no avail. Anyone who knows how I can get the seed should please link up.

okoroemeka:
i am not saying that melon is not profitable,but that the inconvenient truth be said ,it's a tricky crop to grow and will present a series of surprise packages to farmers,for instance melon is prone to serious fungal diseases,any shortcut in irrigation can produce split balls,if you plant in an area with high population of squrriel,rodents, grass cutters, porcupine,etc they will make sure you are frustrated,any insect that takes a bit or puncture the ball it's gone and rotted unlike cucumbers that can even be cut in half still it will heal over and still be sold, irrigation can only be achieved by drip or furrow type,don't even think about using hose and pump on a melon farm,the weeding also is timed with military precision or less if shoots are running and you come to weed and disturb the crop the farm may crash,all this and many more are experiences we have with melon,it is not as easy as other veggies like cucumbers,pepper or garden egg.theres a reason it is called ogbanje crop.

I have gone to the market to some research about cucumber. I observed that all cucumber varieties are not sold the same price. For example, Cu 999 sells for 3,600 a bag while another variety known as jos sells at 8,100 per bag. The problem is that I have not seen any seed known as jos. I think they call it jos because it is grown in Jos Plateau state. Please who knows how I will get this particular seed. Thanks in advance.

TangoAlpha:


Hello sir.

If you will permit me to attempt to answer your questions...

I will start by saying every farm setup is unique and as a result the configuration that's optimal for one farm might not be optimal for another. This is true in general terms and also specifically in terms of irrigation.

Generally speaking, you can irrigate your drips with water coming from your borehole under the pressure delivered by your submersible pump. It should work in most cases.

You can also deliver via overhead tank. One option is not necessarily better than the other. The overhead tank comes with added cost of installation. But gives you the added advantage of storage; which allows you to deliver water under considerable pressure without requiring to run tour pump until you exhaust the stored water.

In terms of running costs. You still spend the same amount on fuel for the generator that powers the pumping machine. So no winner there.

If your interest is in which option delivers better pressure? The answer is it depends on the height of the stand on which the tank is placed versus the capacity of the submersible pump versus the size of your operations.

For a relatively small operation, pressure from the borehole would be adequate, in which case there will be no need for the added cost of installing overhead tank.

The advantage of overhead tank is you have water stored, that you can use for irrigation even when you are not running your pump. The question is whether the extra cost of installing overhead tank is justified. I will say you can avoid that cost.

In terms of the better drip connectors; in my experience, the ones with valves are better. They allow you the flexibility of deciding which beds to water, when and to what extent. They are definitely worth the extra cost.

Depending of the setup of your drips and size of operations, you might discover that the pressure from your borehole or overhead tank or other sources of water is not getting to all the emitters on all the drip lines.

Let's say you have 20 drip lines. You discover that not all the emitters are getting sufficient water, the connectors with valves allows you to do staggered watering. You close off the valves at say 10 of the driplines so that only 10 driplines have to share the pressure from your water source. You will find that the emitters will be better served and than when you had all 20 driplines lined up.

After delivering sufficient water to the first 10 lines, you open the valves of the next 10 lines and close those first 10 driplines. Note, please do NOT close all the connectors before opening the next set....if your pump is delivering water and all the emitters are closed, you will start bursting your hoses or pipes....or even damage the pump.

Even when your pump can serve water to all the driplines sufficiently, you might discover that more water gets some drip lines than to others so that after 1hour of running your pump, some emitter points are already saturated with water while others are not. It is advisable to isolate those that are saturated so that more water gets to those that are yet to get enough water. Otherwise you will overwater some crops and under water some and both categories of crops will potentially be stressed.

I know that some very seasoned farmers can setup their drip irrigation in away that they can effectively use the connectors that don't have valves. But my advise will be to choose the option of with valve. It will save you many known and yet to be seen hassles.

Cheers

Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.

okoroemeka:
the PVC pipes was lined along the length of the farm and holes opened were the drip line is connected to every ridge of 18 meters length containing 80-90 crops and a total of 56 ridges.

Please sir, do you use over head tank or do you connect to pumping machine? Which one is better?
Secondly, the connectors with valves and the ones without valves which is better and why?

Which cucumber variety is the most greenish or very deep green?

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