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Okay. It is well.

Allthingswork:
I have one here with me in Abuja. Ah, but this post is old , so I'm guessing you don't need it anymore. It's an adult male that we use for breeding purposes. Pricey, though.

Quite old.
Nevertheless, do you have growers for sale?

Here we go again, what's really happening to plantain farms?

Still in the spirit of Easter & what it stands for, Happy Easter Celebration to all.

adeniyi65:
Not all goats can multiply in that way. You have to look for she goats that give birth to 2 to 3. If you go buy a squad of goats borning 1, the end result might not be encouraging.

Absolutely correct!!!

In all things, give thanks.

Doing absolutely great!!!

Thanks all.

Our Peace Accord

When the peace talks were over, the whole crew were treated to some sumptuous local made feeds.

Henceforth, it's Powa, Nengi, Dumebi & Qasa.

Note: Ambali & Ali are no way getting any recognitions for now. Kids should know where they belong

Promise Fulfilled

So, I got talking to Powa and He made some very salient points; he was off the notion that I give too much attention to the waterfowls than them. He also raised another issue concerning the creation of their own thread, where the spotlight is solely on them .
After much deliberating, back and forth, I promised both of them I was going to update their pictures online at least for a start.

Kehfie:
The turkeys are not doing badly

Yes ooo!!! Powa & Nengi, they are doing absolutely wonderful. Unfortunately, they are just side attractions.

Powa & Nengi

Powa & Nengi are the only remaining turkeys. Powa is constantly asserting her dominance among the pair. He once tried to challenge Dumebi but the story is for another time. . Nengi on the other hand is Qasa bestie, always within 5 feet radius around the Elegant Drake (Qasa).


Update on their Genders

Turkeys
Powa: Male
Nengi: Female

Waterfowls
Qasa: Male - Mallard Duck

Dumebi: Female - Embden Goose
Ambali: Male - African Goose
Ali: Male - Confused breed (probably a cross between Embden & the African Goose.

Powa & Nengi

Powa & Nengi are the only remaining turkeys. Powa is constantly asserting his dominance among the pair. He once tried to challenge Dumebi but the story is for another time. . Nengi on the other hand is Qasa bestie, always within 5 feet radius around the Elegant Drake (Qasa).


Update on their Genders

Turkeys
Powa: Male
Nengi: Female

Waterfowls
Qasa: Male - Mallard Duck

Dumebi: Female - Embden Goose
Ambali: Male - African Goose
Ali: Male - Confused breed

The Good News is...

I have been waking up to constant Bangs on my gate these past weeks. Everyone is looking for plantains to buy. Unfortunately, the numbers of bunches I constantly harvest on my farm isn't even enough to carter for home consumption . Schools have resumed and parents are all over me, begging me to help them secure plantains for their cuties . For now, I have completely cut-off wholesale buyers, even if you be direct consumers, I must know you have kids before I sell to you.

oyetpel:
My chief, come and continue this beautiful thread

We all know what the prices of plantains are in the markets at the moment, and how relatively scares it has become. Most of what is available are runts or premature harvested plantains as a result of the heavy downpour and the violent winds. Aside that, most Plantains are just recovering from the dry season drought. The sudden heavy rains usually causes must Plantain trees to break off at the neck region. .
Nevertheless, this is the period suckers sprouts out in numbers.

Update on my Goslings


It took a while for me to come up with names for my newly acquired Goslings. I needed to give them names to captures everything about them, and I have kept them for some days now, I've got the perfect names for both.

Ali & Ambali

I hereby bestow the names ALI and Ambali to them. But wait o, these goslings ugly sha!!! . Let's see what they look like in two week's to come.

Qasa

Qasa na the next wahala wey dey my farm now😂😂😂😂. If only she could open the door, she for dey enter the farm house come shout for my ears whenever he's hungry & needs attention. Dumebi's bestie

Pic 1. Dumebi

Pic 2. Dumebi, Qasa and the turkeys.

Pic. 3. Introduction of the Step- brothers.
(Newly Acquired Goslings)

Dumebi is a beautiful Goose I must confess. .

All the needed for the growings

All will be grown organically 100%

Recently got Neem oil from an agro-store coupled with the one gifted me earlier this year.

Next is the Super Gro and I'm good go.

Quick Update on the Avenir - Pepper


Lol... Like dey say, Awoof no good. Straight to the point, I lots the first batch of peppers and tomatoes I planted. I total forgot I left it out in the sun to dry off for days . Felt really bad about it, but we muveeeeeee!!!

I had a few of the pepper seeds reserved so I just replanted and it did well toh!

The 500 stands of the Tomatoes will have to wait till I am convinced I am ready to grow tomatoes without distractions. For now, sticking to the Peppers.

Pic. 1 & 2. The peppers in nylons.

tonysofine23:
Na juju you won use am do ? Which one be first egg laid by female duck #check your self

Surprised?

Nothing surprises me any longer ooo!!!

I get so many requests from; can I get local ducks eggs, wet pig's poop, pigs head, freshly cut plantain that the bunch didn't touch the ground etc... the matter taya me.

Excel70:
Good day boss... I'm trying to get something. I need the first egg laid by a female duck. Hope I can get it.. willing to pay

Unfortunately, my ducks haven't started laying.
Why not visit all these local local herbs/traditional healers, you will be shocked to get what you seek there.

Regular Plantain Dilemma

Yes, we are back to that particular time of the year when the first rains are usually accompanied with strong winds. A usual time when most Plantain farmers lose a percentage of their prospective harvests . I too ain't immune to the destruction caused by the strong winds. Although I try to minimize the damages but home many plantains do want to stake on an acre farm hahahahaha!!!

When life throws lemons at you?
In this case, why the winds throw unripe & immature plantains at you, YOU MAKE PLANTAIN FLOUR !!!

Just recently I stopped selling the fallen plantains to buyers who come to buy them in bulks for Plantain chips making. Why not just start drying and making them into flours I thought to myself. Believe me you, it's been a very productive thought. Sometimes, I even go ahead and plantains with nothing wrong with them use to meet demands of my high end customers.

Pic 1. Why the plantain farm looks like after the damages
Pic 2. The immature plantains cut off
Pic 3. Dried plantain chips
Pic 4. Drying ongoing

Damping Off in Nursery Beds

Good Evening & a beautiful Sunday to all. I will like to address an issue which over time has been popping up on my telegram with regards to nursery beds dying off after days or weeks of sprouting. Yes, I have had to deal with this abnormality most especially with my Soko nurseries. One week, they are all fine and the next day, it's like lapa-lapa (ringworm) caught my bed. . Most times I change my nursery area with few success recorded even so. But as time went by, I began to have a perfect understanding of what was happening with my nursery.

The Culprit - Damping Off
What I was experiencing wasn't some deliberate act of my village people to recover their lost benevolent Prince back to the village, neither was it some farm deity I was suppose to appease as a vegetable farmer. All that was happening was simply Damping off .

What's Damping Off?
Damping off is simple a disease of seedlings and the causative organism is a fungi or fungus brother sister . Oyinbo people even gave one of the major criminal responsible a name; Pythium species and Rhizoctonia solani, but them still get cousins & nephews that can also be responsible.
Once you think you have achieved a successful germination rate and want to start praising the seed vendor & variety you planted of achieving 90% to 95% success, these pathogens with turnup and do their thing. Next thing you start noticing;
1. Seedings thinning off at the base-line as if something deliberately cut it off
2. The base_line of the seedlings start rotting away.
3. Stunted growths in majority of the seedlings later on. Etc

Then the human nature in us starts calling our seeds plug frauds, thieves, barawos, Ole, 419 etc. calling them out for selling expired and bad seeds to us. . okoroemeke, emmaachile2, Jidestroud, Farmtech etc... una na fraud, you sold expired and bad seeds to us ...

The pathogens go just dey smile they tell me brother & sista, make una reduce the germination rate to 20%. At least them fit you that one hold body.

Causes of Damping Off

To be continued. . . (A little strong, but I'm in perfect health in Christ Name, Amen)

CallmeR2k:
Those market women will teach you and you will learn 😂
This is experience talking, thanks man.
But I'll like the time of the day to discuss on telegram even 10 min is enough

Most of the details needed is embedded in this thread.
In summary, for vegetables farming you need lots and lots of water & manpower depending on the size of your farm. According to you 1 plot is your target, get some capable hards. How you plant also determines your weed control system. For some, it is a straight long bed that runs across the farm. The vegetables are densely grown together. This helps manages the weeds but I am not much of a fan of that methods. I prefer transplanting on my preferred beds in rolls and columns. This is more tasking but it gives better yields against crowding the vegetables together.

Likewise, your soil also determines. If you need to amend the soil, get enough manure and do just that. Here in Ogun state, you know it's more of clay red soils, so I have had to amend my souls over the times of planting with lots and lots of compost that the planting area is so dark and full with activities in the soil. Then, water is key factor.

Please Note: The rains are coming back so returns of vegetables is greatly affected. Ewedu will be greatly reduced, shoko will go down & Tete too. Ugu will go down but still a good vegetable to look at, even at the end of it all, you get the seeds to sell.

As the rain approaches, I do most times just shift focus to other aspects of my farm; ofcos there's the Pig, Chickens, Ducks and my Plantains. Plantains is also a good business in the rains.

Pic 3.
Powa, coming to tell me how biased I have been towards them. . . That I should continue oooooo!!!!

Qasa & Dumebi Selfie Time

It's been fun watching these little rascals grow right under my surveillance. The Turkeys have grown so tired of their wahala . Especially Powa, she's quick to run to me as if she trying to tell me all the atrocities their adopted siblings; The waterfowls committed while I was away. . I can't begin the number of times I have had help them settled water disputes. Qasa is so notorious when it comes to water usage. She sends nobody. Dumebi the Gosling sometimes comports herself while I am there with them, but you see Qasa, Tah!!!

Above, they are a spectacle to watch. I decided to give them some shots today and show them how far they've come.

Pic 1. Qasa
Pic 2. Dumebi

Taiwo20:
Put nails on coconut trees help boost the iron content. It an antidote to iron deficiency. It stops abortion of the seeds( Falling off of immature coconut)

Why to you put the nails back and let's see what happens.

Lol...are you for real?

stagger:
Nails on a coconut tree are highly diabolical.

I never believed this until I visited my roots in 2017 for a midnight prayer session. We went deep into a grove we never knew had a stream, and here were all these nails on a coconut tree that stood on its own. As we were yanking them off, the man who nailed them there was heard screaming in his bedroom.

That was how mysterious deaths that had consumed several males in the family was checkmated till date. The perpetrators have started to take their place.

Interesting... Thanks for your contribution.

CallmeR2k:
How do you now measure for your neighbours
Is it that you have a fixed measurement per price
Say maybe you sell 500,1000,1500
No in-between?

2. How do you even measure the bundle of you are not using scales sef ?x

Lol.
That's why I said you have to be conversant with market prices. For all those who come to the farm to buy for home consumption, you just cut same way it's being sold in the market, maybe just add a little to it as incentives. For me, I sell, 100, 200, 300, even as much as 5k to direct consumers. I already know what 200/500 naira worth of vegetables is in the market. So for someone buying 500naira worth, I simply sell 500naira worth of vegetables and add 100naira fisi, Jara, etc

Your 2nd question.
I have also answered you by saying, know what's obtainable in the markets. You can do your market survey by going as early as 6:30am on markets days (depending on the markets though). You will see some farmers come with their vegetables to sell to first buyers, who in turn resells. You will see how the bundles is being packaged.

Well, for me, I don Sabi the Market well well so from time to time, I know how to cut for market women coming to buy in bundles.

N.B: Some may offer to help you cut it sef. But mind you, you will be cheated from time to time . Las las, you sef will be become a master of measurement.
By looking at a bed sef, you can tell how much it will fetch you in returns.

I also heard some scale it to sell though I am not familiar with that.

For me, it's selling directly to consumers around, sell to market women in bundles, and that's all.

Just be conversant with market prices if you have any around you.

Corrections:
Still waiting....

I had to wait till another harvest. Most times, I sell directly to consumers.