Pls keep us posted. I am interested in this two veggies, especially water melon by September in South East, precisely Abakaliki Ebonyi State.

>>>ANOTHER LESSON.
It was march and it's time for watermelon, the farm is weedy but i thought i can still manage herbicide to save cost. Got herbicide(quick action, major component: paraquat), i sprayed and i planted as soon as possible cos I was running out of time. They were growing fine at the beginning, but the rain increased and the weed started coming back to life. Also, it was may and it was mango's season, i had a old mango tree close to my farm and this fruitflies invaded my farm. Hmmm, this small flies can destroy acres of watermelon farm without you harvesting just 1 ball from it. I started making calls and fortunately for me i was able to find a solution even though i lost a lot of young watermelons to them, A LOT.
LESSON LEARNT: Make sure you do you land preparation thoroughly. Hopefully i will share the little i know about land preparation later.
...watch out for fruit flies, especially when you have a fruit tree close by and they are producing at that time. though you must be watchful of these little creatures every time. I FEAR THEM. Spray weekly or even 5 days interval and get a pheromone block (this is the solution to fruit fly)
To know if you have fruit fly infestation, you see your young watermelon fruit getting rotten, you will notice a tiny hole at the point of rot and if you break the fruit you will find maggot inside. If those are what you are seeing, that is fruit fly in action, they lay eggs inside young fruits, those egg develop to maggot and the maggots feed on your small watermelon.

Good day everyone, hope you have started your land preparation for the next watermelon planting season?

Buy land for agricultural purpose in Ibiyan , yewa north local govt area ogun state for 270,000naira per acre.
Documents:
Provisional survey
Deed of assignment.
For more info call 08059414703
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I had similar experience with cucumber. They grew well and I harvested over 120 before a disease came and wipe them out. My mistake was that I didn't control leaf beetles when they started flowering. I was too merciful on the bees and other polinators. So the beetles spread the disease thruout the cukes. Another mistake was intercroping them with sweet potatoes - nutrient stealers. Next time I'll do a better job. The most imp thing is to identify and find solutions for ur mistakes.

Thanks for making us learn from your mistakes too.

FarmTech:
I had similar experience with cucumber. They grew well and I harvested over 120 before a disease came and wipe them out. My mistake was that I didn't control leaf beetles when they started flowering. I was too merciful on the bees and other polinators. So the beetles spread the disease thruout the cukes. Another mistake was intercroping them with sweet potatoes - nutrient stealers. Next time I'll do a better job. The most imp thing is to identify and find solutions for ur mistakes.

can u help us with cost and profit? Let's know how much you spend in production, how much u sell and how much profit made.

don't wait for rain, use drip irrigation, call 08130378328 for all your surface irrigation solutions

nice

Op pls give us detailed information about when,how,variety to plant and d management practices to safe lost..i like to try the farming this next planting season

Thanks op for sharing your experience.

Nice info, pls update

DICON2 you are a rare gem,this days people hide info too much but d irony is when they need info on areas they don't know they check YouTube; if that person hoard info like they do will they see any thing??

Ozededes:
Buy land for agricultural purpose in Ibiyan , yewa north local govt area ogun state for 270,000naira per acre.
Documents:
Provisional survey
Deed of assignment.
For more info call 08059414703
Start building your future now.

nice one; I'm from Ayetoro in yewa north LGA how much do u know about the area
NB: Lagos no gree for travel

Ademat7:

nice one; I'm from Ayetoro in yewa north LGA how much do u know about the area
NB: Lagos no gree for travel

When you say how much, do you mean about the people or about the property, what i can tell you is the land is after dangote cement factory, the land is for agricultural purposes, the payment is for purchase for ownership nor lease, there is a stream close to the land that means the water table is high, and more importantly you will get your documents for your land, if i did not satisfy your question pls feel to reply here or call me on 08059414703

Ademat7:

nice one; I'm from Ayetoro in yewa north LGA how much do u know about the area
NB: Lagos no gree for travel

*Not lease

I'm sorry nairalanders for not updating this thread. I am thinking of doing a 3 days WhatsApp tutorial on watermelon cultivation and possibly cucumber. I trying to decide if to do it free cos I want more people to learn or paid cos we all like cash. #smiles. I need your sincere suggestions. Thanks

Pls add me 234806-531-6307

Drop link so people will follow and join group

FMCASH:
Drop link so people will follow and join group

Ok. Will do that soon

Pls, add me 09079184845 Mutohir from Ibadan.

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can u help us with cost and profit? Let's know how much you spend in production, how much u sell and how much profit made.

No one has actually answered this. I'm also keen to have the answer please.