Pistotita:
Expert farmer indeed that cannot differentiate cross pollination and nutrient impact on fruits. And the efarmer told him the effect as soon as he started. The same way Monalisa is terribly bad to him. Imagine cultivating the cultivar at this time. Expert bush practical farmer wey no fit choose the right cultivar for the right season. Expert wey himself wrote that tomato is terrible and he cannot do it. That tomato is so difficult meant everyone should be aware that it is no go area. Lol. How can watermelon be easy? If watermelon is too hard, then golden melon is "touch not my annointing". A beg, make a carry myself commot. Must person be able to do everything? That I or you cannot do it does not mean others cannot. So, leave it at that. You are not good in it. Finish! Expert indeed! Mono crop farmers can argue too much. I am not also not good in everything, and I will not start saying a particular crop is terrible. What I always do is to hunt for people who know about it, lay my complains, and get tips. And if I find the crop is not just my style after talking to people, I always say It's not my style. And not that it is a terrible crop. So frustrating with my present health issue, and I could just blast a farm, and ask selected ppl to visit and take all the pictures in the world to post for all "show me your picture" cos if you are expecting pics from me, you will not get them. We don pass that stage. Prove what to you? Lol. E farmer dey tell am wetin go happen even before he got to the stage....didn't we tell the so called expert Monalisa was not a good cultivar for this season with less downy mildew resistance before he started. The same proverb he used for us we go use back for am. "One eyed man wey dey lead blind people be king" in their world

Practical farmer that keeps justifying cultivating same crop in same area. Why will cancer not kill because of over bombarding crops with chenicals? Crop rotation na agric science in primary school we learned am. Abi no be so? So, the readers too no get that from elementary education, but followed the practical chemical farmer who then resulted to abusing Metalaxyl and bombarding the field with chemicals. Who sprays such consistently like Mancozeb? Only on nairaland. It is well. We will not die of chemical cos of nairaland by God's grace. It's true, one should start getting really scared of eating vegetables in Nigeria these days.

Looks like bros is annoyed and threatened here. We no say make you no continue shinning among your people. It takes maturity to see more positive highlights from someone else while in ones domain. A beg have a nice time on this thread. A don commot.

Idemujoseph:
I harvested 11 and half today from my two plots.
I am indebted to you all for the guild. Especially Okoroemeka and pistotita. 44 days old farm.
But I almost cry today seeing that many of the flowers are aborting.

Wizs2019:


Please share images of your plants so we can better diagnose the problem. However, fruit abortion is most of the time a sign of lack of nutrients. The images will show if you plants are stunted and as a result can not handle the number of female flowers developing on the plant or if the plants are infected.

okoroemeka:
All intending watermelon farmers be warned,it is not an easy crop to grow,do not be deceived by E-farmers throwing mouth watering returns,if it's too good to be true,then it's probably is,WM cannot be planted on any soil, location or season,it's a crop that needs militry precision on timing on when to plant it,you cannot just wake up and decide to plant melon,we have done a melon farm that was devastated by any animal in the bush that has teeth's,but closeby a novice farmer did his own and harvested abundantly,ask me what happened,the novice farmer in his ignorance planted the melon without regards to proper spacing and the vines caused such an entanglement that animals cannot find any way through,we on the other hand use proper melon spacing to get high yields but ended up creating highways for any manner of animals to zoom in and out,it was actually funny seeing the novice first time farmer harvest more than 500-1000 balls of melons, while us the so called experts that even sold him the seeds watch in utter frustration and bewilderment.

lahify:
me I believe the whole problem started from okoroemeka saying do not be decieved by e-farmers which I believe wasnt directed to pistotita cos I know several times okoroemeka has lauded pistotita for his intelligence and I like how okoroemeka hasn't responded, I believe what happened here is just misconception, please let this Issue die down

Pistotita:
Expert farmer indeed that cannot differentiate cross pollination and nutrient impact on fruits. And the efarmer told him the effect as soon as he started. The same way Monalisa is terribly bad to him. Imagine cultivating the cultivar at this time. Expert bush practical farmer wey no fit choose the right cultivar for the right season. Expert wey himself wrote that tomato is terrible and he cannot do it. That tomato is so difficult meant everyone should be aware that it is no go area. Lol. How can watermelon be easy? If watermelon is too hard, then golden melon is "touch not my annointing". A beg, make a carry myself commot. Must person be able to do everything? That I or you cannot do it does not mean others cannot. So, leave it at that. You are not good in it. Finish! Expert indeed! Mono crop farmers can argue too much. I am not also not good in everything, and I will not start saying a particular crop is terrible. What I always do is to hunt for people who know about it, lay my complains, and get tips. And if I find the crop is not just my style after talking to people, I always say It's not my style. And not that it is a terrible crop. So frustrating with my present health issue, and I could just blast a farm, and ask selected ppl to visit and take all the pictures in the world to post for all "show me your picture" cos if you are expecting pics from me, you will not get them. We don pass that stage. Prove what to you? Lol. E farmer dey tell am wetin go happen even before he got to the stage....didn't we tell the so called expert Monalisa was not a good cultivar for this season with less downy mildew resistance before he started. The same proverb he used for us we go use back for am. "One eyed man wey dey lead blind people be king" in their world

Practical farmer that keeps justifying cultivating same crop in same area. Why will cancer not kill because of over bombarding crops with chenicals? Crop rotation na agric science in primary school we learned am. Abi no be so? So, the readers too no get that from elementary education, but followed the practical chemical farmer who then resulted to abusing Metalaxyl and bombarding the field with chemicals. Who sprays such consistently like Mancozeb? Only on nairaland. It is well. We will not die of chemical cos of nairaland by God's grace. It's true, one should start getting really scared of eating vegetables in Nigeria these days.

Looks like bros is annoyed and threatened here. We no say make you no continue shinning among your people. It takes maturity to see more positive highlights from someone else while in ones domain. A beg have a nice time on this thread. A don commot.

okoroemeka:
I got information from a farmer that harvested cukes 15 times,I normally will not believe such cock and bull story till I went there today and I was speechless,he did his farm on an old flood plain near a big river,the total accumulation of alluvial silt over the centuries has turned the soil to black,That is the key to unlock #500k from 1 plot,by October ending we will proceed to the site not too far from us 5km max with our truck,shovel,workers and 1500 empty ,cement bags,we will use the soil from the best part of the site take it back to our farm,nstall 40cm drip on it with 2 crops per bag,treat with manure and other ingredients and let me see how we will not get #500k from one plot,t.he most surprising part is that the farmer said he has planted twice on same place and the current crop is the third batch and he is still getting same results,hmmm,very interesting.

nuel2good:
Thanks for all your insight @okoroemeka, though I started reading this thread late in my cucumber journey. I have one question that bugs me about manure. I read somewhere on the thread where you mentioned soaking manure for 4 days before application. Does that reduce the nitrogen burn from chicken manure?
I have always had the challenge of composting the old fashion way and that takes months. Is this a faster way to get similar results? Can the manure gotten from this method be applied directly to plant base?

okoroemeka:
composting manure takes a lot of time,we had access to free chicken manure from a mega poultry farm close to us,the only catch is that it's from battery cage ,wet and dangerously hot with ammonia and nitrogen,so what do we do ,make it even wetter by soaking in water and leaving it to ferment for 4-5 days,the first two days will be hell because of the nasty smell of organic gases coming out,but after that it will calm down and subsise,that is when u can use it,for example we brought in a load 3 days ago with our farm truck and poured into culvert rings buried in soil,we will start applying it tomorrow on our new flowering 4,000+ cucumbers.pls don't apply directly on stem,leave a space of 2-3 inches from stem and aviod the mixture touching the leafs it Burns without mercy.

okoroemeka:
composting manure takes a lot of time,we had access to free chicken manure from a mega poultry farm close to us,the only catch is that it's from battery cage ,wet and dangerously hot with ammonia and nitrogen,so what do we do ,make it even wetter by soaking in water and leaving it to ferment for 4-5 days,the first two days will be hell because of the nasty smell of organic gases coming out,but after that it will calm down and subsise,that is when u can use it,for example we brought in a load 3 days ago with our farm truck and poured into culvert rings buried in soil,we will start applying it tomorrow on our new flowering 4,000+ cucumbers.pls don't apply directly on stem,leave a space of 2-3 inches from stem and aviod the mixture touching the leafs it Burns without mercy.

FMCASH:
This the first time you will be stating 2 to 3 inch part. I applied to the root as you normally said before and this cause me a fortune. A bitter experience in my first trial. I know its normally 30cm apart, but just try what you said. Lesson learnt.

lahify:
I guess the manure is still hot, why don't we use cured manure instead to save us from all these loss

nuel2good:
@okoroemeka I soaked four bags of chicken manure in one of my tanks yesterday. When I went back this evening, olboy! The stench and the flies! Apparently the amount of water used wasn't enough to keep the manure under water(I saw yours was completely submerged).The flies were just laying eggs anyhow. I had to resort to insecticide and more water to keep the manure under water. Will update you on the outcome.

jjbest123:
Thanks once again Okoroemeka for your EDUTAINMENT! THUMBS UP! Please sir i want to ask you few questions,to aid me in my decision making.
1.Can saaf and imi force be mixed and used together?
2.How much did you buy the wormforce?
3.Can phostogen be used during raining season?
4.What is the cost of the urea fertilizer you used?

okoroemeka:
well all modern agrochemicals are compatible with each other except herbicides,that saaf fungicide can no longer be trusted this rainy season,the pressure of Downy mildrew is much that one fungicide alone can no longer protect a crop,we are now using a combination of ridomil gold(copper) and zforce every 7 days,wormforce is ₦1700 for 1 kg,yes, phostrogen can be used if you target that rain will not fall at least 6 hrs after spraying,urea is ₦8000-10000 a bag depends on location.

kasshoggi:
@okoroemeka Great job you're doing here. O do not have the time to begin a cucumber farm or any farm for that matter due to the nature of my job, do you have any plan for people like us that may want to invest?

I await your response.

Cheers

OluchiDelly:

Pls what's the a.i in d wormforce? I want to see if it's same wt my furadan.

okoroemeka:
carbofuradan,it's same with furadan from fmc,only shine your eyes the locally packed furadan is mixed with sharp sand.

Idemujoseph:
My second harvest from two plots was yesterday. 15 bags. I sold 3000 per bag.
I love you all

okoroemeka:
hmm,good yield,I am predicting 70-80 bags from that 2 plots,I think you planted small/medium size cucumbers, because if it's cu999 because of big size it will translate to more bags,our second harvest from a land slightly bigger than half plot was 8 bags.

Idemujoseph:
sir, some of the seeds did not geminate due to the hotness of the sun.