Pls answer my question @ Olamimo. How do i control/treat the soil which i planted pepper of nematode or termite infestion. Also when and how do i apply dry poultry manure(am practising organic farming).

Soloxam:
I never reply you in a bitter way....... I only comment since it involve my product..... But try and make finding b4 making assumption online, reason that many will read and never make findings to know what the real issue is....... Peace.

Noted Sir

jacabi:

In case of 3 & 4, what's the suitable treatment to apply?

3. Keep insect under control.
4. You may correct that with fertilizer of higher trace elements such as 10-10-10. ( i think)

OLAMIMO12:

3. Keep insect under control.
4. You may correct that with fertilizer of higher trace elements such as 10-10-10. ( i think)

Thanks
Incase of insect, which insecticide can you recommend?

OLAMIMO12:
Noted Sir

Thanks for your understanding.....

@soloxam u re offending me o i stay in ekiti and smbody work @ fedpoly ado and used 2 cm frm ibadan 2 ekiti every monday and d only time he used 2 b available is during d weekend and u dont cm 2 shop on weekend y, dont u knw u re delaying my cucumber cultivation?

sheyi86:
@soloxam u re offending me o i stay in ekiti and smbody work @ fedpoly ado and used 2 cm frm ibadan 2 ekiti every monday and d only time he used 2 b available is during d weekend and u dont cm 2 shop on weekend y, dont u knw u re delaying my cucumber cultivation?

Haaa, my boss don't be offended oooo, sorry for the delay, pls tell the person to call me ahead before saturday so that I can pick what ever you need home we can make arrangement on how to met on saturday....... I beg no vexxx ooooo............

sheyi86:
@soloxam u re offending me o i stay in ekiti and smbody work @ fedpoly ado and used 2 cm frm ibadan 2 ekiti every monday and d only time he used 2 b available is during d weekend and u dont cm 2 shop on weekend y, dont u knw u re delaying my cucumber cultivation?

Haaa, my boss don't be offended oooo, sorry for the delay, pls tell the person to call me ahead before saturday so that I can pick what ever you need home we can make arrangement on how to met on saturday....... I beg no vexxx ooooo............

Soloxam:
Haaa, my boss don't be offended oooo, sorry for the delay, pls tell the person to call me ahead before saturday so that I can pick what ever you need home we can make arrangement on how to met on saturday....... I beg no vexxx ooooo............ ;DHaaa, my boss don't be offended oooo, sorry for the delay, pls tell the person to call me ahead before saturday so that I can pick what ever you need home we can make arrangement on how to met on saturday....... I beg no vexxx ooooo............

ok thanks 4 ur understanding

sheyi86:
ok thanks 4 ur understanding

U W C Sir.

noblefarm:
pls can tomatoes b planted directly?

No. Tomato can not be planted directly because the seed are very delicate and needs the utmost care at the right condition to survive

Bhurlagy:
Sorry to derail your thread but a quick solution is needed. The leaves of some stands in my pepper farm is still folding even after i have applied fungicide(Z FORCE by name). Pls i need solution house.(note am using only dried poultry manure as fertilizer)

How did you treat your soil?. What have you applied or have been applying in term of fertilizer etc

@ Bhurlagy.
Once the foundation is wrong the house can not stand.
Vegetables are very delicates and one needs to get it right from the begining.
Your Soil is very important.
You need to know the history of the soil before planting.
By history i meant what was planted there before.
Steps in raising a healthy plant include but not limited to:
1. Treat the soil by sterilization or solarisation. Both nursery beds and the field
2. Use poultry waste or other organic content to revive the soil
3. Use resistance seed
4. Nursery management is very essential.
5. Regular and consistence watering.
6. Use net to protect against insects.

The possibility of having a healthy annd productive plant greatly reduced if any of the step is omitted.

Its hard and by luck for vegetables to recover or survive once they are infected.

Prevention is better than cure really applies to vegetables especially tomatoes.

Its one of the most delicate crop to plant.

I hope you are able to salvage some of your plants?

I also hope this help to some extent even if its coming late.

Best of luck

Bhurlagy:
Pls answer my question @ Olamimo. How do i control/treat the soil which i planted pepper of nematode or termite infestion. Also when and how do i apply dry poultry manure(am practising organic farming).

Bhurlagy:
Thanks for your quick response to my question. Pls kindly help on this question,how can i rectify pepper leave weakenin(sorry for usin dis word as i dnt knw how best to describe it)bt in yoruba lang. ewe ata nro bi pe o fe ku.

Bhurlagy:
Sorry to derail your thread but a quick solution is needed. The leaves of some stands in my pepper farm is still folding even after i have applied fungicide(Z FORCE by name). Pls i need solution house.(note am using only dried poultry manure as fertilizer)

Bhurlagy:
Sorry to derail your thread but a quick solution is needed. The leaves of some stands in my pepper farm is still folding even after i have applied fungicide(Z FORCE by name). Pls i need solution house.(note am using only dried poultry manure as fertilizer)

I only apply insecticide and fungicide on the pepper. Am using dried poultry manure as fertilizer.

jethro2:

How did you treat your soil?. What have you applied or have been applying in term of fertilizer etc

Thanks Madam Jethro2,how do i sterilize or solarize the soil. Whats the cause if the big tse-tse flies are always on the pepper leaves.

jethro2:
@ Bhurlagy.
Once the foundation is wrong the house can not stand.
Vegetables are very delicates and one needs to get it right from the begining.
Your Soil is very important.
You need to know the history of the soil before planting.
By history i meant what was planted there before.
Steps in raising a healthy plant include but not limited to:
1. Treat the soil by sterilization or solarisation. Both nursery beds and the field
2. Use poultry waste or other organic content to revive the soil
3. Use resistance seed
4. Nursery management is very essential.
5. Regular and consistence watering.
6. Use net to protect against insects.

The possibility of having a healthy annd productive plant greatly reduced if any of the step is omitted.

Its hard and by luck for vegetables to recover or survive once they are infected.

Prevention is better than cure really applies to vegetables especially tomatoes.

Its one of the most delicate crop to plant.

I hope you are able to salvage some of your plants?

I also hope this help to some extent even if its coming late.

Best of luck

Bhurlagy:
I only apply insecticide and fungicide on the pepper. Am using dried poultry manure as fertilizer.

Fungicide can be use to treat the soil before planting eg Furadan.

Bhurlagy:
Thanks Madam Jethro2,how do i sterilize or solarize the soil. Whats the cause if the big tse-tse flies are always on the pepper leaves.

To sterilize; You cook the soil to a very high temperature. This will kill all the remnants nematodes eggs from the previous season planting.
Solarise; During the preparation of the soil after ploughing you leave it to receive maximum sunlight for minimum of 2 weeks or more.
Tsetse fly/ white fly: Some hybrid tomatoes are resistance to this

Thanks alot ma,am talking about controlling tse-tse flies on chilli pepper.

jethro2:

To sterilize; You cook the soil to a very high temperature. This will kill all the remnants nematodes eggs from the previous season planting.
Solarise; During the preparation of the soil after ploughing you leave it to receive maximum sunlight for minimum of 2 weeks or more.
Tsetse fly/ white fly: Some hybrid tomatoes are resistance to this

Words cant express how happy i am on your quick response. Pls ma,how do i apply this Furadan(am a student of YABDI Abeokuta,doing chilli pepper presently on 4 plots. I love to farm tomato but missed your theory session).

jethro2:

Fungicide can be use to treat the soil before planting eg Furadan.

Bhurlagy:
Thanks alot ma,am talking about controlling tse-tse flies on chilli pepper.

The local method: Get some dongoyaro seed. Grind and soak in water for a week or more. Sieve the content and use the water as insecticide to spray the chilli pepper.
2. Plant basil leave intervally within the pepper farm.

Common method.
Use insecticide.
But over time insects becomes resistance to the insecticide.

Best is to keep trying different methods

Bhurlagy:
Words cant express how happy i am on your quick response. Pls ma,how do i apply this Furadan(am a student of YABDI Abeokuta,doing chilli pepper presently on 4 plots. I love to farm tomato but missed your theory session).

Applying furadan:
Make a circle around the root of pepper of about 0.5cm distance. Apply furadan to form a ring or circle around the root

How do i apply the dongoyaro fluid,i mean the quantity to mix in the 16 litre spraying tank.

jethro2:

The local method: Get some dongoyaro seed. Grind and soak in water for a week or more. Sieve the content and use the water as insecticide to spray the chilli pepper.
2. Plant basil leave intervally within the pepper farm.

Common method.
Use insecticide.
But over time insects becomes resistance to the insecticide.

Best is to keep trying different methods

Bhurlagy:
How do i apply the dongoyaro fluid,i mean the quantity to mix in the 16 litre spraying tank.

Depends on the population of insects disturbing your pepper farm. If you use a mild mixture and the insects are still there.
Then increase the concentration.
Dongoyaro is neem tree.
You can google neem fertilizer for more info

This sounds interesting, please read.

http://businessdayonline.com/2015/06/gems4-plastic-crates-initiative-seen-as-solution-to-tomato-wastage/

Plastic crates introduced by Growth and Employment in States (GEMS4) are seen as formidable solutions to incessant tomato wastage in Nigeria.

Africa’s largest economy is rated as the second largest producer of tomatoes in Africa and 13th in the world but about 41 percent of the crop is lost in transit from the North to the South as a result of poor handling practice.

Locally grown tomatoes often wilt on the vine and rot in raffia baskets on the road to market.

In an effort to address this wastage, GEMS4 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mile 12 Market Tomatoes Association on the use of plastic crates for tomatoes instead of the conventional raffia basket.

The GEMS4 plastic crates initiative, which is funded by Department for International Development (DFID), is targeted at improving the quality of packing materials used in perishable produce sector as well as reduce damage and losses.

“We need to improve our market materials. Transportation of tomatoes in raffia basket results in 41 percent of tomatoes being lost in transit from North to South but with plastic creates, it has been reduced to five percent,” said Richard Ogundele, Intervention Manager, GEMS4, during the signing of the MoU at Mile 12 market last Thursday in Lagos.

“For high value market to come to Mile 12 market and patronize tomatoes sellers, they need to change their handling behaviour, materials and change the way they present their goods,” he said.

Ogundele also noted that the initiative is providing opportunities for banks to play along and expand their agricultural lending portfolio.

A big challenge to agricultural productivity and food security in Nigeria is lack of adequate infrastructure to support food production and distribution.

“The government also has a role to play. We cannot work on the value-chain without the government providing the enabling environment,” said Adesina Fagbenro-Byron, DFID South West Coordinator.

According to Haruna Mohammed, chairman of the perishable section of Mile 12 market, represented by Shehu Usman, “I was with GEMS4 in South Africa to see a lot of good handling practices and I know it’s a welcome development to Mile 12 market.”

“The environment we sell in Mile 12 is very poor unlike that of South Africa where you can actually sleep,” Usman said.

Arafat Hossain, Senior Intervention Manager, GEMS4, said it will have a transformational impact if all the traders adopt this kind of good practice. According to Hossain, when this is done, there will be surplus of tomatoes in the market.

“We are trying to do something on good handling practices. We need a lot of cooperation’s from the traders,” he said.

He further noted that the challenge the plastic initiative is facing is the attitude of the sellers to embrace change. He also said to address the challenge all stakeholders should come together and make some changes, while looking at the funding, profitability and the commercial sustainability.

Tomato seedlings need strong, direct light. Days are short during winter, so even placing them near a very sunny window may not provide them with sufficient natural light. Unless you are growing them in a greenhouse, your best option is to use some type of artificial plant lighting, for 14-18 hours every day. o ensure the plants grow stocky, not spindly, keep the young plants only a couple of inches from florescent grow lights. You will need to raise the lights (or lower the plants) as the seedlings grow. When you're ready to plant them outside, choose the sunniest part of your vegetable tomato garden.

Here is another resourceful thread for tomato.

http://agriculture.exportersindia.com/vegetables/fresh-tomato.htm

@jethro, pls ma, how do we protect (tomatoes)with net against insect. What kind of net how we talking about here? Thanks

@OLAMIMO - Can you please give update on your Tomato farm?

A lot of guys have derailed this thread but please for the sake of some of us that really wanted to learn and go into this type of farming, kindly continue the good job. Don't relent plssssssssssssssssss. Thank you

noblefarm:


tnx sir. pls which variety of tomato is advisable to plant?

Difficult to answer. Many successful tomato guru tried many varieties before they arrived. Many factors will come to play before one make a reasonable decision on that. Different practice favour different variety. So also the climate. Others will tel more

OLAMIMO12:

Difficult to answer. Many successful tomato guru tried many varieties before they arrived. Many factors will come to play before one make a reasonable decision on that. Different practice favour different variety. So also the climate. Others will tel more

Please give us updates on the current status of the tomato plants

People are asking me about this thread. some gave several calls. l really appriciate all.
The thruth is that since transplanting, l hardly visit them. my watermelon got me engaged fully. Now watermelon has set me free. l went back and see them glowing. thank God.

Pictures

OLAMIMO12:
Pictures

That's cool. When r u applying fertilizers and other chemicals to the tomato

Juliana7:
@jethro, pls ma, how do we protect (tomatoes)with net against insect. What kind of net how we talking about here? Thanks

Sorry I am just seeing this message.
The normal mosquito net is what we use. Use it to cover the nursery