excanny:
Abeg, what's the efficacy of these so-called foliar spray fertilizer? Someone is preaching it to me. I remember Pistotita saying he took one to the lab and found nothing in it. Anyone else has tested? Any DIY kit to test things like that.

excanny:
Abeg, what's the efficacy of these so-called foliar spray fertilizer? Someone is preaching it to me. I remember Pistotita saying he took one to the lab and found nothing in it. Anyone else has tested? Any DIY kit to test things like that.

okoroemeka:
don't doubt original foliar fertilizer like Haifa bonus,if you use the oyibo recommend dosage of 450 gram per knapsack on cucumbers here in the tropics it will burn the leafs without mercy,due to high concentration of elements in it and weather factors,Plantzyme by biostadt is another incredible product if u can find one that is not expired

Idemujoseph:
Many thanks to you all!
Mr Okoroemeka, my cucumber is fruiting already!

okoroemeka:
kudos to your efforts,but now cucumbers price is down and market dull because of rains and the influx of other competing edibles like maize,garden egg,etc,we are just doing small scale planting now,1500-2000 crops every month for fuel and recharge card money,the dry season is when we will pull out all the plugs and go mega, when customers are ready to pay upfront for crops not yet harvested and then the price has only one way to go and it's UP!!

Akposy:
Good morning house!
What period of the year are cucumbers expensive and cheap and how much are they sold during that period?

funsoul:

For me here in ekiti state this is the best time to have cucumber for sale. During the dry season I was competing with those from the north n I hustled 2 sell for 4k but now am doing shakara with the sales.

Pistotita:

My advice is that you understand your local market where you plan to sell. Carry out market research first. Do not rely only on the info you get here. Get out there and work it out yourself.
Best of luck!

Functionoftime:




A friend went took his cucumber to market few days ago. He said a bag was sold at #2600. During dry season, a bag can sell as high as 7k here in Ilorin.



Oga don end matter with his advise

funsoul:

Exactly. The only unique thing about the market here is I can only sell as low as 4k cos we don't have many cucumber farmers in the state. Even during the glut period when they get from the north, the eventual landing cost makes it around 5k and of course the bagging is different

Cocoboms:


Plantzyme by Biostadt is truly a wonderful seaweed extract foliar fertilizer. I have used it before and you see the obvious difference after it's foliar application. I was seriously looking for their product one time in abuja but I didn't find. Even their expired product is still very effective.
I love using GENUINE seaweed extract based foliar products.

okoroemeka:
you didn't state the type of fungicide you are using,they have different dosage,zforce,raksha,cotzeb@100 gram per knapsack, ridomil gold,redforce,tandem@50 gram per knapsack,saaf@25 gram per knapsack,if u still have an unopened pack just divide it accordingly equal parts,e,g saaf 250 gram you divide into 10 equal parts in nylon water proof.

Functionoftime:




A friend went took his cucumber to market few days ago. He said a bag was sold at #2600. During dry season, a bag can sell as high as 7k here in Ilorin.



Oga don end matter with his advise

Yampotatocarrot:


Thanks for your reply. I have gotten t yet, God willing I'll b getting t tomorrow. Will state where I got t here, for others in Lagos who night want to get t.

okoroemeka:
haaahaaa!!a farmer friend of mine after testing one Plantzyme can that expired 4 years ago,he went back to biostadt agro shop in enugu and cleared the whole stock and he got a good price #1000k for one can,for me fear no gree me try something that expired 4 years ago on my cucumbers to avoid long stories

Pistotita:


Bro if it's farming for profit you are doing, you get mind. Honestly, you will be a tough, hard farmer. Doing cucumber in rainy season without adequate preparation to battle fungi and pests? It must be the first time on the land. But with all your responses and suggestions here and there, I felt you are one bad as.s expert My hands just dropped when I read this action of yours. O boy! Nairalanders will not kill person oooo. And you just take advices like this not knowing the person has not even stepped on farm. Mouth zipped!

Anyway, getting suggestions from anyone is not bad. Anyone can be God-sent. More grace to your elbow. I pray your farm works well..But sir, don't limit yourself to cukes. Kindly dive into other areas. And let market guide you.

Pistotita:


You are wasting your time coming to nairaland and asking for market. And it keeps changing. If you cannot go and do market research you are just wasting time. And you should be asking market retailers and agent prices, not nairalanders. I mean what kind of question is that? Market is simple the law of demand and supply.

Personally, I don't understand why everyone is doing cucumber. It is very hard. Stressful and too rigid. Yet, new farmers are rushing in. It is one of the most expensive crops to start with too. And it requires too much input, especially water and nutrients.

In those days, you will make a heck of profit during rainy season with cucumber. But if you see the rate at which other tribes have entered it just like how someone said the secrets of hausas are opened. I think nairaland caused it. Every Jack and Jerry wants to do cucumber. Why? Anyway, I get it.

From 2009 to 2015 that I researched well, rainy season cucumber is just too profitable. But my recent research showed me that market is changing. It is just not predictable in fast moving open market like mile 12. If you doubt me, follow mile 12 market for 6 months and you will get it. Get like 10 agents and start calling them regularly. That is marketing. But you prefer to come here and ask questions when the right people are out there. So, it is the man doing his business in Imo you will be asking Ogun and Cross river market.

Guy, move your as.s out there and get it done. Which one is asking the prices of products here. If people decides to put info based on their locations still move out there to confirm before starting. And even after you have started, it can crash or go up. Bodija market has its own pattern too. Eleyele Market has its own attributes. Study the ones nearest to you. Is nairaland the market place?

Guy, there are questions that are so funny. if I really reply the person, it will not be nice. But you also should think about it. I read daily here how Veggie experts keep advising new farmers to keep doing marketing. Have you seen the experts come online to ask such questions? But they always ask. They just ask the right set of people. So, it is nairalanders that will give the man in Enugu the accurate price to sell his products. Many farmers are from Abuja here. And you expect the man in Ondo to take his cucumbers to Abuja when he is not doing large scale like the hausas. Or the farmer in Uyo starts farming vase on the prices the guy in Asaba gives. Is tgat not stupi.dity?

When you make market research your food, you just will not do cucumber all through the year. That crop is just too hectic in open field. Under greenhouse, OMG. The sky is the limit. Go and study experienced farmers if they do cucumber often. When there are less risky, less hectic, and more profitable crops. Again do not ask me the crops cos they differ due to locations. Get your as.s out there and go to market. I have worked in Abuja and I know the market there too. Totally different from Lagos. And it changed what I cultivated. Honestly I still don't get it how people work like kindergartens. Asking farmers here prices when you have legs to go to market (not directing all the "yous" to you oooooo, just my style of writing. Definitely not calling you a kindergarten, but just responded cos you mentioned me and copied my response from my thread here).

My advice to you again is that you go out to market and do it right. Lol.

Yampotatocarrot:


I appreciate your response, Sir. Nope, I'm not a bad ass farmer, the person I quoted and others in this thread that I know outside Nairaland are actually the bad ass farmers.

Its my first time planting it in the rainy season and my second time on this piece of land. Actually, I've NEVER had to use fungicide in all my previous cultivations, so this is kinda a new experience for me.

Again, I appreciate your response really.

Yampotatocarrot:


As for this, I'll try to reply on behalf of myself n other "new" farmers. We don't learn everything at once, we tend to make mistakes also, but all it takes is to ask questions, no matter how stupid our question may sound. Ull b wrong to state that you never asked any seemingly stupid question when you also started out. Don't forget, to you, it might sound alright, but to the person you asked, it'll be stupid.

Also, the reason why you may think "every nairaland farmer" z doing cucumber z because you visit cucumber threads regularly. If you visit other plant threads or even poultry thread regularly, you'll think everyone z doing poultry or pepper.

Finally, you have a penchant for talking in parables. Ull talk about how to effectively grow veggies without inorganic fertilizers, but you'll ask us to go find out. Later, you'll talk about crops that r easier n cheaper to cultivate n still bring profit, but u won't mention them n will ask us not to ask u for their names. When you state something that will b beneficial, you'll ask us to go find out "what u had in mind", you talked about artificial irrigation some young guys developed, but asked us to go browse n find t out without any clue whatsoever.

I understand you probably feel because you spend your time n maybe cash yo get the information, we also need to do same. But from a junior non-badass farmer to a senior badass farmer, we plead you consider us n even show us pics of your farm, even if just the area set out for your researches.

Please, I never meant to offend you with this rubbish write-ups, its just a plea.
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*#Honestly, That's My 2-kobo#*

Pistotita:


Bad as.s group. hahahahahhahha!

Bro! You have just confirmed what I have been saying. If you really like yourself and you do not want to destroy your land and have mildew accumulation in your soil so you continue depending on fungicide, start rotating crops. I do not know if that is your first time or second time with cucumber, but your land is still very healthy for you not yo catch midew without fungicide during this rainy season. Please remove totally all the leaves you plucked from your plants. Pack them in a place and burn when they are dry, else, your soil will become habitation of mildew. If you follow this rule, trust me, you will never use fungicides on your farm. If you will use, it will be just Mancozeb for controlling and prevention, and on few occasions systemic just to be safe. Or better still, it will be organic home made formulars you will be using. Please, let chemicals be strange to you, and never get used to them . I started on a dead land, so I just always pressed to use chemicals and they were not effective. Until I sat down to address the issue and I taught many how to heal their soil.

If you notice Nematodes in the soil, put in roots, or the likes of watermelon and cucumber with wide roots. So, if I were you, I would consider eggplant after cucumber. Cos there will be minimal Nematodes in the soil which will affect it. And then, you move to carrot afterward. Then, you may consider cauliflower or cabbage. And lettuce cos all pests are almost gone and since you don't want pests on your leaves. Move back to cucurbits - cucumber/watermelon/zuchini/squash/melon etc.

And keep bombarding your soil with manure. and if you are smart, get permanent beds....bombard with microbes and mulch. Worms will be playing underneath your soil, and it makes it healthy. Keep away from NPK totally. But can still use the likes of Lime or CaCO3, Epsom salt, and I think Calcium Nitrate and Potassium nitrates are less toxic to worms and microbes. Even urea can still be used at vrry low quantity. No side drrssing, but fertigation. The worst salt is MOP, Chloride is salt despite its high potassium nutrient. Just study hard. It is not that difficult like people think it is. And there is no permanent style will publish about soil preparation on my thread cos I am getting too many questions regarding that. But the open secret is compost +microbes, compost, compost

Farming is common sense

Cocoboms:


Plantzyme by Biostadt is truly a wonderful seaweed extract foliar fertilizer. I have used it before and you see the obvious difference after it's foliar application. I was seriously looking for their product one time in abuja but I didn't find. Even their expired product is still very effective.
I love using GENUINE seaweed extract based foliar products.

Functionoftime:




A friend went took his cucumber to market few days ago. He said a bag was sold at #2600. During dry season, a bag can sell as high as 7k here in Ilorin.



Oga don end matter with his advise

Pistotita:


You are wasting your time coming to nairaland and asking for market. And it keeps changing. If you cannot go and do market research you are just wasting time. And you should be asking market retailers and agent prices, not nairalanders. I mean what kind of question is that? Market is simple the law of demand and supply.

Personally, I don't understand why everyone is doing cucumber. It is very hard. Stressful and too rigid. Yet, new farmers are rushing in. It is one of the most expensive crops to start with too. And it requires too much input, especially water and nutrients.

In those days, you will make a heck of profit during rainy season with cucumber. But if you see the rate at which other tribes have entered it just like how someone said the secrets of hausas are opened. I think nairaland caused it. Every Jack and Jerry wants to do cucumber. Why? Anyway, I get it.

From 2009 to 2015 that I researched well, rainy season cucumber is just too profitable. But my recent research showed me that market is changing. It is just not predictable in fast moving open market like mile 12. If you doubt me, follow mile 12 market for 6 months and you will get it. Get like 10 agents and start calling them regularly. That is marketing. But you prefer to come here and ask questions when the right people are out there. So, it is the man doing his business in Imo you will be asking Ogun and Cross river market.

Guy, move your as.s out there and get it done. Which one is asking the prices of products here. If people decides to put info based on their locations still move out there to confirm before starting. And even after you have started, it can crash or go up. Bodija market has its own pattern too. Eleyele Market has its own attributes. Study the ones nearest to you. Is nairaland the market place?

Guy, there are questions that are so funny. if I really reply the person, it will not be nice. But you also should think about it. I read daily here how Veggie experts keep advising new farmers to keep doing marketing. Have you seen the experts come online to ask such questions? But they always ask. They just ask the right set of people. So, it is nairalanders that will give the man in Enugu the accurate price to sell his products. Many farmers are from Abuja here. And you expect the man in Ondo to take his cucumbers to Abuja when he is not doing large scale like the hausas. Or the farmer in Uyo starts farming vase on the prices the guy in Asaba gives. Is tgat not stupi.dity?

When you make market research your food, you just will not do cucumber all through the year. That crop is just too hectic in open field. Under greenhouse, OMG. The sky is the limit. Go and study experienced farmers if they do cucumber often. When there are less risky, less hectic, and more profitable crops. Again do not ask me the crops cos they differ due to locations. Get your as.s out there and go to market. I have worked in Abuja and I know the market there too. Totally different from Lagos. And it changed what I cultivated. Honestly I still don't get it how people work like kindergartens. Asking farmers here prices when you have legs to go to market (not directing all the "yous" to you oooooo, just my style of writing. Definitely not calling you a kindergarten, but just responded cos you mentioned me and copied my response from my thread here).

My advice to you again is that you go out to market and do it right. Lol.

Akposy:


Thank you sir!
Thank you Pistotita!

Please I need more precise answers

What's the price of Darina, CU 999, Tokyo and Greengo?
Is Tokyo and Murano F1?

Chinatown1759:


My brother u get strength o. U can talk plenty stories in a bit shaa

vosquare:

Is Plantzyme another type of bonus?

okoroemeka:
koloss F1 watermelon and Hercules F1,two of the best WM variety technisem has ,in a head to head challenge,which on will yield more,bigger,and more adaptable and resistant to disease,we will find out the usual way ,plant and see !!!

Idemujoseph:
Sir does water melon require manure(chicken dropping) in the hole like cucumber before planting?

okoroemeka:
yes,basal manure application is a must with watermelon,and pls be careful about melon,it's not rugged like cucumbers,it can die anyhow,for me melon is 50/50

vosquare:
Please who knows the functions of these and their applications

Cc FMCASH
Cocoboms
Pistotita