₦airaland Forum

omoniyisam:
Yea but going into cucumber around that time without irrigation will lead into disaster for many o...
I'm suspecting planting cucumber around September/Oct with good irrigation may yield good profit sha

Those that cultivate late season OPV cucumber seeds in the South do that by September/early October because they allow them crawl on the ground unstaked. Crawling forms a live mulch that keeps the ground hydrated even with few rains. This kind of cultivation produce the bulk of cucumbers that comes down South from North around October and November.

Although it requires a larger arable land area for cultivation when compared to staked cuke, its cost of production is cheaper hence giving the farmers the advantage of price leadership when market price for cucumber is down.

Our advantages cultivating hybrid cukes are longer shelf life, freshness, appeal to the eyes and maximization of output over a smaller area of land.

My cultivating cukes now is a risk I'm willing to take because it most likely will be more profitable than tomatoes between now and early November. All my cuke plots have drip irrigation setup even during raining season. No room for stories that touches the kidneys.

The little profit generated from this will offset some farm expenses while we await cultivating heavily mid October. If you intend cultivating irrigation-fed cuke, I'll suggest mid-October to early November.

Considering the increased pump price of fuel, heavy dry season irrigation-fed farming will be for the strong-hearted and heavy pockets.

sightquest:
Good dey everyone
Please I need a farm manager for a vegetable farm around Shiun in Ogun State. Land size is a about 4.5 acres. I will appreciate if I can get a referral for a good one
Thank you all

My farm is within your location as well. What vegetable crop are you cultivating?

Farmerakinloye6:
[if you ask me which one I will choose at the moment, I say cucumber because attention is on tomato right now.] if you follow my advise then you will have being selling at pick now! If you are just planning to plant now I will advise you plant little.

Given the mad rush by many farmers into tomatoes, I envisage cucumber's profitability will be better than tomato's August, September and October.
Many farmers are currently tied down in tomatoes and will only be free to return to cucumber by the end of September to October.
Some are even waiting to plant cucumber after August break that is still elusive.
This year, high price of tomatoes may slightly alter the market dynamics of other crops because many farmers want to grab a bite of the tomato's premium price and is evident in the scarcity of premium tomato seeds. Sadly, late comers will be badly burnt.

That's my rationale behind cultivating cukes now although, I still have some tomatoes on ground. I must milk tomato dry this year

Wiseking00:
What part of Ogun State are you? I'm thinking of venture into farming though I'm into poultry right now but I have some challenges.

Can we talk?

Poultry industry is currently doing shege banza pro-max. I had to abandon it to face only cropping. Just finished translating my tomatoes and currently planning to plant cucumber.

Kehfie:
Great farmers in the house not to derail this thread but can anyone give me a link where I can get about 5 bags of pouktry manure and 10 4 weeks noiler birds for a pilot project? I woukd prefer to get from Ijanikin or Agbara

Look around for poultry farms.

komoland:
Please kindly explain how to mix copper and mancozeb together, How many grams to mix with each?

I use one sachet of Redforce(copper) + 3 tablespoons of Zforce(Mancozeb) to 15ltrs knapsack load.

Farmerakinloye6:
smile..it a local one like I said before the Head is green house cover though but net is ordinary new mosquito net.we will be there one day!

Okay. Thanks.
Gods willing, we will surely get there some day.

Farmerakinloye6:
Almost finish remain just door, if you want to do similar thing I will be sharing the details on my channel probably weekend or next week. If you want uniform seedlings I will advise you build one.

Is the net UV treated?

mcyemite:
this year is actually going to be different kinda off ...the tomatoe calendar for this year is already ruined ,although it's not advisable to borrow money to fund tomato cultivation I however still believe tomato will still sell for very good price till end of the year...because the main supply line has be critically hit this year,before thing goes back to normality will be next year...

I saw a programme on nta 100s of tomato farmers are vowing to never cultivate Tomato again in the north until the government find a way to help them with tuta absoluta ,more than 5000000 hectares was lost to tuta absoluta this year...

So I will implore western farmer to keep cultivating

The mad rush for tomato seeds currently is a signal that a glut may exist between October and December although not as bad as previous years. Rain-fed tomato farmers that were not able to cultivate earlier because of scanty rains are now planting in order to at least have a bite of the high price this year. All the rush for planting now will be due for harvest between October and December bringing about a glut.
Like already advised, we need to thread with caution.

In my opinion, scarcity of tomatoes may start again earlier next year because of many farmers abstinence due to high cost of fuel for irrigation dependent farmers and the fear of Tuta in the North.

Farmerakinloye6:
You never see anything wait till September ending till mid of December! I pity those that borrow money to do this work.

Borrowing to fund tomatoes cultivation at this time of the year is suicidal.

Farmerakinloye6:
I heard land soak yesterday... took only diva to market and sold 23k flat.

Please can you tell where the excess supply is coming from?

ideepaul:
I saw you mentioned you cultivate peppers too, how has your journey been like compared to tomatoes and are you doing local or hybrid peppers?

Unlike tomatoes, pepper is hardy and can better withstand unfavorable environmental conditions. Also, you don't expend much on attention, finance, agrochemicals, water and staking (not needed).
I prefer the local pepper to hybrid because of resistance to diseases and adaptability to adverse climatic conditions. If you want to go local, be sure of the seed source so that you don't end up buying seeds of F2 or other generations of hybrid pepper.

Redomi:
, bigger ones sir

Hope you did market survey to determine acceptability of your chosen fruit size?
In my locality, people consider the big fruit rodo as Hausa variety and only buy it in the absence of local small-sized rodo pepper.

Redomi:
I'm a new pepper farmer, I did my pepper nursery 3-4 weeks ago.
I couldn't afford F1 seed, I bought 1000 naira fresh pepper from a friend, remove the seed and I spray on my raised bed. They germinated well and grow very fast.

Was it seeds from small or big fruits pepper?

cuteboy2:
How do you keep disease and pest from the tomato?

I thought this rainy season is not good for tomatoes.

Your management matters a lot.

omoniyisam:
Which state?

Ogun State.

YeyeGbami:
This is nice. Stay safe!

Thanks.

tonytony208:
What about security? Did you fence the land?

No fence. I'm very fortunate that farm environment is free of herdsmen and thieves.

timagentms:
Pls which state are you doing your farming?

Ogun State.

Benblaq:
You're my namesake. I love your work. ❤

Thanks.

Farmerakinloye6:
I sold 18k flat this morning.. price range between 21-18k though.

Na you dey enjoy oo. Tomato and cucumber market always favour you.
Over here, we are currently selling 16k while my neighbor sells cukes at 4.5k - 5k.

OluchiDelly:
i grow both hybrid and heirloom, heirloom pepper tend to have better disease resistance than most hybrids reason being the sizes are smaller and have not been sacrificed at the alter of yield by the seed breeders. for pepper, i will always go for heirloom.

Exactly. I cultivated the pepper rainfed while hybrid tomato is drip irrigated.
If it was hybrid pepper I planted, they would have succumbed to the very hot weather we experienced weeks ago with opportunistic insects infestation and attack concomitantly.
The local pepper gives room for bounce-back when management and climate improves while hybrid may not.

Antibettings:
This is looking great 😻

Thanks

Antibettings:
This is looking great 😻

Thanks

Jub101:
When did you plant the peppers

Nursed January.

mencer:
Nice job Reuben 🤜
What variety of pepper is this ?

Scotch bonnet and is a heirloom gotten from a local farmer.

Nice work. I'm also into tomatoes and pepper cultivation.

felixmerit123:
Good evening great farmers. Please my pepper seeds and flowers are damping off(falling off). Pls what can I do to stop this asap. Thanks

Calcium is needed. If you don't have, spray sharpshooter insecticide.

BadMaster:
Immediately I read the headline, I knew it could only be an evil flat headed person.

Do you know you can rise above this tribalism and hatred?
No tribe has a monopoly of good and evil people. Stop bringing yourself this low.

mcyemite:
I am planning to do my first cucumber seedling tomorrow and I am honestly feeling lazy ahead about the transplantating...and it really got me thinking if it's worth doing or I should plant it directly into the soil...I want to plant 3 sachet of greengo.

Pls senior men that have done both direct planting and using of seed trays...is it worth the stress?

Transplanting of cukes is a bit more technical than that of tomatoes because cukes are younger and fragile when transplanted. Just like opined above, I'll suggest direct seeding and spraying of heavy concentrations of insecticide around the boundaries for the first 1week to ward off rodents and insects. You can also nurse some seeds in seedtrays concomitantly for gapping up to replace unsprouted hills.

Wonders shall never end!!!.
So life is so cheap to him that he decided to take one over a seized phone. I thought I've seen the height of wickedness, this just expanded the threshold.