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l just admire folks who starts with what is available to them, not wasting time waiting for a dream settings.

Ayostically:
Can it be grown in any part of the country or is there a particular region suitable for growing it

pls how can one get these seedlings

It can be grown across Nigeria. Someone who is a top politician already has an orchard of it in the South west (l am not permitted to mention his name) l am told when he visited Kenya, he travelled to the apple farm/nursery which is about 2 hours drive from Nairobi and bought 200 seedling @ $11 per seedling, got his permit from KEPHIS (The Kenyan agency responsible for certifying plants than goes in and out of the country) and travelled with it back to Nigeria.

Jesusbaby6:
The apple seeds are coming from china, the grape seeds i ordered is pink, i have started the nursery for the grape and strawberry seeds.

Females and pink colour! How long did they tell you it will take the grapes and apple to fruit?

The owners of the restaurant no well at all. Had lunch at a Chinese restaurant in Lavington, Nairobi last weekend and they were courteous.

To top it up, the owner is an illegal immigrant!

ls it not same bread that have been mentioned right from the Book of Genesis?

Nmeri17:
He's always on every bid with his 1million positive reviews molesting us newbies is it fair he'll have sixty projects and still jump on new bids then outsource to noobs for peanuts. is that not wickedness?? no tell me?? is it not wickedness??

You have to be patient. l felt so until l got my first job of $40 and it was just like a miracle as the project budget was $30-$150 and l bidded for $30 while the big boys with their huge reviews were bidding $100, l got a surprised chat from the Job owner who asked if l understand the job, l replied YES, he said my bid is too low, l should increase it to $40 and should inform him when l do so. l con begin to suspect the guy but what have l got to lose? l upped my bid to $40 and informed him, na so the guy award me the job! and made a deposit

Though l bid whenever l feel am less busy as internet is cheap and power is constant.

Hmm..missing aku like wetin! Remember when we used to chase after it, back in the rural area after it had rained and fried it with palm oil.

hmm...catching his own moment of fame.

There are these four Ghanians guys living in the same building with me, as fellow West Africans l kind of flow with them and got to know they are freelancers and focus on data mining. if you see the guys at work they all look like yahoo yahoo boys.

They told me it is highly lucrative as they buy Airtel Kenya's 30GB of data monthly for N7,000 then wi-fi it and pay N3k monthly for the 24hrs electricity. Boys dey chop money ooo

Nmeri17:
guys has anyone noticed this guy called rajat07me that guy na terrorist

mommy ladywriter I'm on the brink of going to see a prayer warrior/soothsayer/curse breaker abeg reply yo PM as soon as u can

Wetin the guy do?

Jesusbaby6:
thanks my brother. i ordered the seeds, expecting them soon. but i recieved my grape and strawberry seeds, planted them yesterday

Where is the apple seedlings coming in from? l hope you keep a close watch on your nursery. What colour is your grape?

Water the seedling either in the mornings or evenings. The variety is disease resistant thus no need for any chenical spraying.It starts fruiting from the 9th month and harvesting is from 4 to 6 weeks post fruiting. It fruits twice a year and one harvests between 50 to 100 apples per harvest from the apple tree.

After planting, water with 20 litres of water to help its growth then mulch it to prevent direct sunlight to the soil so that the water does not evaporate.

Planting of the seedling.

Pour a bucket of poultry manure into the hole already dug and mix very well with the top soil, making sure the soil is loose.

Preparing the land for planting the Redstark apple seedling. A hole of 2ft deep should be dug. The length and breadth of the hole should also be 2ft respectively.

The spacing from one seedling to another should not be less than 8 and half feet.

Got several mails asking me if the Redstark apple will survive n Nigeria and how should one go about planting it. l have been very busy but just made out some time to show the step by step procedure for planting, the seedling as it is would do well in Nigeria

oluks05:
Any update sir? Thanks

Am still on the case, called the contact person few minutes ago, he didn't pick but sent me a text that he is in a workshop. l called him on Monday to remind him of the email l had sent earlier and he had promised to send a reply soonest. l have to exercise patience because the contact person is a top shot at Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya (FPEAK) and can understand the type of schedule he has.

Just be patient.

macandy21:
Fruit business in Nigeria should one of the lucrative business in Nigeria, out of curiosity I went to price the mangoes (pics below) at oil mill market here in Port Harcourt, I was told it's sold 3 for N200. I even priced N150 for three and was refused.

On my way home, I started thinking, if mangoes are sold for N50 each and land still goes for less than N80,000 per plot in my village. Why should I cry of unemployment.

A full grown tree can produce up to 500 fruit per year, if I have lets say just 20 trees, that will be 10000 fruits, multiplied by N50 will give N500,000 and what's the cost of production. I will just have to work for the first year, wait for it for another 4 years and bam.


I can even start a small garden relaxation point/ Sports viewing centre under the trees.

Self employed for life, just rinse and repeat.

Is this wishful thinking or somebody thinking like me?

Why should you wait for it for 4 years to produce? Go for early maturity variety.All those imported apples you are seeing in Nigeria markets are grown and harvested within one year!

Sad! l just hope the camera fixed at the ATM was functioning at the time of the incident.

hmm..whatever soaks his garri.

Everyone is entitled to ONE VOTE no matter how influential one may be.

That is your personal opinion and I have to respect it.

trotsky2:
may Allah curse you, the christians and the jews

it just 5.51 a.m (time of your post) and your day has already started with cursing. The God l serve will continue to bless all men of peace.

It is expected that the girls have been dispersed.

Does he have access to what he stole where he is right now? The shallowness of the human mind!

Primegold:
Dear Pavore9,

Any progress on this sir?

BR

I have been contacting those l worked with years back around Nsukka-Adani-Omasi region but none seem to still have the contact of the guy who showed us around his ukwa nursery and this was way back 2009!

I will still be on it to get you a link to the seedlings, on lighter note you have provoked my tongue to salivate as it has been long l tasted ukwa.

Food for thought....'If a man plants ten breadfruit trees in his life, which he can do in about an hour, he would completely fulfil his duty to his own as well as future generations'.

jasper7:
I have an ongoing work on this biogas of a thing, because it remains one area that will drastically reduce cost of production for farmers.

it will surely do as it provides biogas for electricity, heating up of incubators etc. l will soon do a detailed post on post-harvest preservation of vegetables which would be ideal for our rural-folks as they can utilize those metal boxes hidden under their beds!

Curiouscity:
The bold statements above is the bane of true development in Nigeria. We are too selfish!! While the 'white-man' is jealous that we Africans live a communal life, we are trying hard to segregate and out-do one another. What stops a whole community from having one large biodigester in a corner of the community, then the output distributed to people's home? What happens to the communities and communal life that we were known for?
Real Estate developers should be forward thinking in fostering communal resources, not only in the case of biogas, but other utilities. Imagine 10 tenants in a compound with ten different small generators ("I pass my neighbor". Why can't the landlord buy one big gen and everyone pays for fuel as part of the rent?
At the rate we are going, real development is still far from us, even when many people among us are very rich.

l share your line of thought as communal approach yields more and saves costs.

what a twisted mind!

ls this suppose to be good news when money is departing Nigeria and none is coming in through the same medium?