₦airaland Forum

SavageResponse:
In what capacity is Arthur Eze in this entourage?

Since when did he become a government official?

don't underestimate the king maker Arthur ,he has made 3 African head of state, countless governor's and ministers,don't be surprised that the enugu governor borrowed money from Arthur during election or he installed that minister of aviation, remember he is a player in the avaition sector having owned triax airlines during the 90,s and that airport contract might have been done by his company.

adescopy:
Is urea now easily available

yes of course,it is npk 151515 that is not available,urea is #13k per bag of 50kg indorama urea

ANOCETS:
@okoroemaka @4words @ideepaul and co

What is the fertigation regime for Cucumber using venturi?
How often and a d how long do i irrigate using 3liters per hour drip tape?

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.

GuyWise101:
Please Advice Me

Please NLs advice me, I am serving my Oga what we Igbo people call (Igba boyi) now I am saving his money mostly from profit, I want to use the money to start my business when I am settled and it has reached 1.3m but my mind is telling me to show him the money while the other mind is telling me not to show him the money.

Please advice me on this.

this vintage type of merchant manship is what the igbos had perfected over the years and that is the secret to their money making,this boy in question may not be up to 16_17 years but he has managed to save #1.3 million naira cash and given his oga almost #1 million cash from his separate shop,this boy has mastered one of the key rules in money making which is savings, it will not be a surprise that in 10 years time this boy will be planted like an iroko tree in his community,the igbos has formatted this oga/boy symbiotic business partner ship to a level of producing businesses men/women more than Oxford or Harvard business schools,that boy has already mastered most of the cardinal rules in money making but it remains his emotions and ability to take critical decisions without seeking for outside advice,which in this economic situation revealing to a friend that he has such amount may be a death sentence.and pls don't ever dream of returning that money because if you do you have failed one year course in money making and your oga will treat you with disdain as if you are not yet ready to graduate,it is what all of them did,he will be expecting you to get something out of the shop to add to the little he will give,that is why he opened a separate shop were you will be less supervised,it is a game of wits and balls of iron but the end justifies the means.

Idemujoseph:
Hello Ugu Farmers in the house, is it possible to be realizing 50k from a plot of Ugu Farm during dry season?

you didn't state if the #50k is weekly or monthly,to get such money from ugu ,the farm will be big at least an acre

Nezzjnr:
Murano2F1 easily ripped off as in how??

Okoroemek suggested cu999 as a good pollinator for Murano2F1

What's the duration of cu999

murano2f1 has thick flesh and very small seed cavity,it can ripe and spoil in 2-3 days if the cuke is wet when harvested, any slight bruise the fruits is gone bad next day

I cannot experiment with any unproven variety again,cu 999 is very flexible and can be grown for specific market,proper spacing of 50-60cm and good fertilization program will give you dark greenish cukes also you can choose to harvest from 40-44 days to get medium sized cukes.with good management cu999 never fails to give good yields,but some varieties even with top notch management their yields are miserable,an example is when we planted lion seed and cu 999 on same land and same management but the lion seed gave 60% less than cu999,it is incredible to see healthy green crops with no cucumbers to harvest, incredible!!!

Let them increase the charges without considering how people will pay for that,I stopped using DStv since last 3 years or so and ported to my smart phone,I am predicting that in the future ,smart phones will sink satellite TV.

It is obvious that the historical lesson of what happened to igbo people in the northern part of Nigeria from may 1966 to September 1966,a genocide of 10,000-30,000 men,women and children conveniently forgotten,not to mention the previous pogorms that spanned from 1945-1966 even under the eyes of our colonial masters.for how long do we continue to sweep simmering national problems under the carpet,maybe until the house goes up in flames maybe.but let it be known that the current suppression of the igbo people is only but temporal because when an idea takes hold it will be difficult to dislodge.

Planting an unproven variety in cucumber farming is another one of one thousand ways to die in cucumber farming.it shows no mercy.

Not only you that loves sucking boobs, especially the nips that rises like bread in the oven

chigomiced:
How many bags can be achieved from 1000 sacks�

35-40 bags

Intendy:
currently selling for #5,500 to #6k at mile 12

maybe an artificial high caused by the unusual long August break,it may still fall when farmers start planting again or it may even continue to rise, nothing is normal anymore

divicode:
When Jesus wept in the Bible, he was weeping for Nigeria because he saw the future of Nigeria.

Finally, it is officially finished, there was never a country, Chinua Achebe was wrong

Achebe was not wrong,he was referring to Biafra not Nigeria

Golan007:
The biggest betrayer is the man that allowed 3 million of his siblings to die, take off, come back a few years later to contest for positions in the same Nigeria.

do you expect a good leader to sit back and watch thousands of his people massacred in the northern genocide and do nothing, don't forget that col ojukwu offered a compromise of nation restructuring in aburi Ghana,the federal govt accepted and an accord was signed but the federal government threw away the documents in the dust bin on returning from aburi,col ojukwu said in aburi that it is better for us as a nation to come slightly apart and survive than come too close and perish in the collision,That same restructuring is what the west is now clamoring for.. ojukwu tried to protect his people from slavery and death and that idea of a new nation has been born and nothing can stop that idea and dreams in the minds of an average igboman or woman not even bombs or bullets.

Sagay212:
That day will never come. Ipob are cowards and only know how to cheat beat and insult yoruba people and Tinubu. Ya'll call yoruba cowards but look how ya'll being wasted because you lack common sense.

Everything is not by noise. Common sense is not common.

the biggest betrayal was when an elder statesman in the west preffered to be a finance minister instead of the first president of a new Yoruba nation,if he worked in sync with ojukwu as planned we will not be in this mess called Nigeria,you can call col ojukwu whatever name you like but never call him a coward,we know who the true coward is.

4words:
Thank you as always boss, but my concern is if the cu986 is dark green. I am doing a bit of research on other variety.

Darina performed very poorly on my farm.. same Farm greengo and cu999 did well.

After trying out 5 cucumber variety,

Murano 2 F1 - terrible planting it alone and got ripped easily
Tokyo - takes too long, not mind blowing production
Greengo - sweet production,
Cu999 - another sweet production, just that my market is selective
Darina - worse ever for me... maybe I don't know how to cultivate it.

Greengo is my preferred choice(just that this seed is damn expensive) and cu999 as a pollinator

cu 999 is an incredible cucumber variety,it is reliable and dependable,we have tried all the varieties above including marketer,supermarkter,Poinsett,market more,lion seed,monalisa,saira,cu 986,etc.but the cu 999 has an unbeatable pedigree,due to market preference it may be well fertilized to achieve deep green color and harvested at 40-43 days to get medium size fruits

4words:
I have been looking for greengo cucumber seed and it's as if I am looking for gold. Please anyone with information on how to get it should please help. Thanks

green go and Murano are scare in the market right now,do your research and look for any other available variety that you can manage,cu 986 is another good medium sized cucumber variety that is suited for many markets

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

finding that Murano satchet will be difficult,even the tin type is now mostly out of stock,staking net should be around #4-5k per roll,at abeokuta or ijebu ode.

HornyTave:
I tried it in 2018 December, boss, I became lean and muscular...
I'll never advise anyone to do dry season farming without drip and fertigator.

I don't even answer people who want to use bucket and plate to irrigate. I don't like nor encourage people to suffer

the guy did that as a last desperate measure to pull himself up,now he has two full time workers he pays salary at the end of the month,a house and other goodies in life,if he was sitting down and waiting for pallatives he will still be waiting up till now,a man that is down on the floor doesn't have anywhere again to fall down to,but he has one way to go and that is up,if he has the mental strength and courage.

Zhitsu:
Wow....it seems Abuja people don't care about the cultivar....probably because of diverse tribes and people....as long as its consumable...they will buy it

Anyways between Murano and Cu999 ....which will be advised to be planted in De acember/January period and whats the price like in that period

a bag of cucumbers by January cannot be anything less than #5-6k per bag,it is almost impossible to fail with cu 999,it is guaranteed old school variety,Murano with low male flowers and lack of pollinating insects in January harmattan will not be funny, bending Yash cucumbers will plenty for that farm.

ideepaul:
Bucket and cup? , I don die for laugh o...why is honda water pump double the price of these Chinese pumps? Am I missing something here

original Honda pumps will be expensive due to the parent company has spent many millions if not billions on research and development,adverts, ,also paid better wages,better insurance and healthcare,and they also use secret .metal mix in the critical high stress parts of their machine making it last longer than the Chinese clone,we once had a similar dilemma in our farm some years back,do we buy an italian borehole pump of #120k or do we get a Chinese clone of #25k,we finally got two Chinese pump with the believe that one Italian pump cannot possibly Outlast two Chinese pump,after many years the Chinese pumps proved to be well made and lasted even still working till today.

Zhitsu:
Good Morning Everyone, l was able to get some cucumbers from the markets in my area and will like you guys to help me analyse what type it is and whether it is good cultivar to plant or recommended similar but Better cultivars

Thanks Guys(photos attached)

the pics of those cukes has shown how serious this August break has been,lack of rainfall caused very high percentage of misshapen fruits, moreover I can easily identify at least 3 different varieties in that tray,a drought affected cu 999,Murano and market more with spines,this your market is truly an open market.

ideepaul:
watering once a day is quite challenging not to talk of twice I pity those planning one acre with sacks o....btw, has anyone cultivated cucumber/any other vegetable close to a river that has a sandy soil? What were the challenges you faced, and did manure help improve the soil quality? I am asking cos I have access to land there but the entire terrain leading to the river looks sandy, the swamp nearby is a total no-go area

my former farm manager has used just bucket and cup to irrigate 2000 cucumber crops from a nearby stream during the peak harmattan period,it is those who have not experienced it can tell the limit of human endurance,that Sandy soil by the river are hundreds of years of accumulated silt,it may look Sandy to you but it is fertile, during rainy season every trash, rubbish and shit will be carried by water down to the lowest point in the valley,just add chicken manure and you will be surprised,even in some places that Sandy top soil will only be a few inches deep,if you till it black heavy soil will pop up.

ideepaul:
In as much as there are loads of advantages of using sack, You are more likely to get bitter cucumbers from the sack method than ground if you can't water properly and daily

correct,sack is best watered twice daily during dry season, morning and evening,seems your sacks are too close together,it tends to cause problems with ventilation vand DM,even our own sack we spaced 1 feet apart is giving us headache, spacing is a critical factor in sack farming because the crops will come up too healthy and sound that you will be the victim of your own success.

Olaleyeabdullah:
like how much can one get this kind of pump

just your common submersile pumps used for bore holes,we just connevt hose to the borehole and start watering

Sterlingsolutns:
@okoroemeka

Your plants looks healthy and your sacks looks straight. 1) Please, did you line those sacks? 2) Those sacks appears more robust than the cement sacks- which sack did you use and why? 3) Appears you adopted twin rows planting - What is the spacing between the sacks in the twin rows
and within the rows? 4) What is the spacing of your pathways? 5) How many plants did you plant in each sack?

Thanks

(1) we use white nylon rope to make the bag rows straight.(2) no just normal empty cement bags(3) 2 feet between sacks and 1 ft in rows,passage 3 ft(5)2 crops per sack,pics of sack farm when small

calixjabs:
1000 sack can covers how many plots of land?

1 plot and small attachmeñt like one third of a plot

A car or motorcycle battery can produce such power

calixjabs:
sir what's your method of irritating sack bag farming.

one thing I like about sack farm is that it is easy to irrigate with hose,my workers use 40-45 mins to irrigate 1000 sacks, nothing fancy or elaborate just hose connected to 1 hp pump at 2-3 seconds per sack will give you 3-4 ltrs per sack.

ifytrik:
I feel for my igbo brothers doing business in southafrica and ghana, it's not easy to leave with witchies and wizards, even here in Nigeria outside the southeast they hate and envy us somuch not because we are thieves or criminals but because we are more successfull than them even in their own soil, we must learn to leave with it if we want to remain in the top, don't let their hatered distract you, just be prayerfull and i can asure you all that the egyptians we see today we shall see them no more. #GOD BLESS NDIGBO #IGBO AMAKA

80% of this businesses closed down in SA and ghana are owned by igbos,in as much the discrimination is glaring most of the problems are caused by the igbos themselves,due to their unquenchable thrist for financial success they are always on the hustling front lines and are ready to do anything to make money,legal or illegal,hereby causing rift with their hosts,