₦airaland Forum

drake2:
If he had irrigation in his plans; the words "dry season, December and doubts about the survival of the cassava plots" would not show up.

My fierce reaction emanated from regretful sobbing of Agri-preneurs from wrong consultancies. Huge resources and livelihoods have been lost/damaged deu to wrong advisory.

excanny:
Ilaro ogun state

supereagle:
Which part of Ilaro? This place has arable land. I am from there. Then, if we uproot our cassava we planted back immediately. We always have cassava all year round. Better still you can keep the stem till around March -April next year.

DrDoc:
It will go. I have been observing the dew since the rains stopped.

The morning dew will sustain the cassava so long as the stems are fresh and not dried ones..Proceed

drake2:
Not so smart "Augustine". Many of you are missing the point.
To establish a new cassava population on any soil; you need the following:
1. Place your matured, frest stem with btw 5 to 7 nodes either in a water solution or soil with adequate moisture
2. The stored food reserve in the stem will undergo so many metabolic processes in the presence of absolved moisture to initiate the
Lol! rooting process preparatory to the young plants feeding from the soil nutrients in solution by absorption, not by chewing CHO, NPK, Ca, Mg , S and other micro nutrients.
3. Useful microorganisms (VAM Fungi) can't survive without subsoil moisture
4. Newly planted cassava stem (completely buried horizontally or half buried vertically) can not utilize Augustine's mist, fog or dew ; there are no leaves on planted stems
5. If I ask you to stand in the current prevailing sunlight for 24 hrs; you will end up in the hospital. Talk more of cassava stem
6. Have u assessed soil temperature values recently? They are over r 45'C to half boiling point of water.

When your cassava stems are planted in October to early November with about 2-3 adequate rainfalls; a quick establishment of stems( above ground leaves and below ground roots ) are achieved.

With about 2-3 weeks of established stems before December, the drought tolerance quality of stem is triggered to see them through before the next season.

Augustine, please farm cassava next season on a real plot not on Google plots.

Gracias!

Augustine2244:
Lol! Not so smart,Mr Lecturer,Drake2, Cassava stem cuttings don't need to be soaked in any solution before planting.
In my family compound,we plant both enhanced and local varieties of cassava without soaking and they grow up well.
Though the recent climatic conditions is stiffly scorching,in areas where atmospheric moisture still hangs during early December, cassava can still be planted, provided the heat is not too strong.

drake2:
Mumu Man!

This is the harvest season for cassava and coincidentally the best period for procurement of cuttings (cassava clones/planting materials)

Procured stems are not planted in the fields now but stored in jute bags under shades with constant watering to keep them alive for early rains in January.

If you dey Ibadan , and so what? I did all my degrees there in UI; where did u school m0ron?