Very educative thread, please is their any risk or is it wise to nurse your pepper seed with cocopeat and transplant into a good loamy soil. Thanks

Oreope123:
Very educative thread, please is their any risk or is it wise to nurse your pepper seed with cocopeat and transplant into a good loamy soil. Thanks

There is no none risk whatsoever. It is the most ideal situation, if you ask me. I just sowed my peppers in cocopeat mixed with NPK 15:15:15 as well as others in Coco peat mixed with soil and dried chicken manure and they both germinated

Degis:


There is no none risk whatsoever. It is the most ideal situation, if you ask me. I just sowed my peppers in cocopeat mixed with NPK 15:15:15 as well as others in Coco peat mixed with soil and dried chicken manure and they both germinated

How do one curtail the stress of transplanting so that the new environment isn't totally strange to the plant? More so, please what are precautions to be taken when transplanting?

Oreope123:

How do one curtail the stress of transplanting so that the new environment isn't totally strange to the plant? More so, please what are precautions to be taken when transplanting?

Transplant later in the evening after exposing them to sunlight for 4-5 days before transplanting and use compost tea to water the plants.

Compost tea is just manure mixed with water. Remember, don’t let the tea touch the leaves of the plant bc it will kill them. It contains too much Nitrogen

50 grams of pepper (average 10,000 seeds) in pre n[sub][/sub]ursery,it was a tough choice doing pre nursery or nursery straight on the ground,later experience and common sense prevailed,we are lucky and glad we did the pre nursery because 4 days after the seed was sown it rained heavily from 7pm to 2am,and again 2 days later it rained again like that,if we choose the easy way of making the nursery direct on the ground it could have been a disaster, because the rain was so heavy it will carry the seeds away,also for 6-7 days now the soil is damp,the pre nursery helps to effectively control the weather,u can cover or even take it indoors if weather is unfavorable,if it stays 2 weeks it will be transferred to the main nursery and spaced accordingly,it's more labour but it's worth it,we had 70% germination and it's still germinating.

That's great

okoroemeka:
50 grams of pepper (average 10,000 seeds) in pre n[sub][/sub]ursery,it was a tough choice doing pre nursery or nursery straight on the ground,later experience and common sense prevailed,we are lucky and glad we did the pre nursery because 4 days after the seed was sown it rained heavily from 7pm to 2am,and again 2 days later it rained again like that,if we choose the easy way of making the nursery direct on the ground it could have been a disaster, because the rain was so heavy it will carry the seeds away,also for 6-7 days now the soil is damp,the pre nursery helps to effectively control the weather,u can cover or even take it indoors if weather is unfavorable,if it stays 2 weeks it will be transferred to the main nursery and spaced accordingly,it's more labour but it's worth it,we had 70% germination and it's still germinating.

ogbongenet:
You don't need to post and repost, your message was understood. I have heard similar story from 3 different people,that's why i don't advice people to buy the 5g sathcet of avenir, I think it's having problem though the 50gram is expensive but if you have someone to share with it's better.the germination is up to 80percent. Thanks

Where can one get the common open variety?

Abdullahi4u7:
Where can one get the common open variety?

we have the high yield open variety from Cameroon,it the nursery in the pics above 70% germination already and still going,WhatsApp 08119942049 for moreninfo

Cocoboms:


You can buy from any agritropic office nationwide. They have many offices.

Thank you

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I'm at the fat North, rain just started over here. Can one farm pepper from June?

Good Day People, its such a nice thread you have here, allot to be learnt.

Sorry where can i get seeds for pepper and Okro in Lagos, and also i'll appreciate if there is anyone that can help me with details of fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides needed to farm Okro from planting to harvest.

Thanks.

okoroemeka:
the two are different varieties of fresh pepper,shombo is finger like and deep reddish,it's used mostly by moi moi producers, while rodo is roundish and can come in any color from deep red to yellow,it is widely used and the most demanded,in terms of yield a good rodo variety will give more than shombo in the short term,but given the fact that the shombo pepper we planted produced for 2 years it will yield more in the long term, another strange thing we discovered about shombo is that it's resistant to all diseases that levelled our rodo farm.

can one plant pepper in zai pits

Which one is zai pits

Olaleyeabdullah:
can one plant pepper in zai pits

okoroemeka:
if it has any effect all of us should have been dead long ago, because without these chemicals it's impossible to grow vegetables in the tropics,the humidity and temperature helps everything to grow to the next level including weeds,insects,fungal and bacterial issues, even all of those chemicals sometimes can not kill some insects like leaf miner and whitefly.

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How do you tackle whiteflies? That pest is bad.

FarmTech:

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How do you tackle whiteflies? That pest is bad.

my brother,there somethings you don't even wish to happen to your enemy,whitefly and leaf miner in cucumber and red spider mites iand fruit borers in garden egg,I laugh when I read some people talking about organic insecticide,I still wonder how it can be used on let's say 1acre of cucumbers infected with whiteflies,it's obvious the farmer will die from inhaling the baking soda,garlic, pepper and neem oil mixture before the insests.

Olaleyeabdullah:
can one plant pepper in zai pits

yes

ogbongenet:
Which one is zai pits

planting pit

jethro2:
Once the peppers have enough nutrients to feed on, prunning might have little or no effect on the fruits size.

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FarmTech:

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How do you tackle whiteflies? That pest is bad.

Honestly, the most reliable way of fighting whiteflies is biological ways i.e Organic means. Using Neem based pesticides is very efficient compared to applying all sorts of inorganic chemicals which eventually becomes useless.

I have tried it and still use neem oil in my tomato garden. It is very efficient and reliable for me.
Nevertheless, another thing is planting resistant varieties to TYLCV and other diseases you intend addressing.

jidestroud:


Honestly, the most reliable way of fighting whiteflies is biological ways i.e Organic means. Using Neem based pesticides is very efficient compared to applying all sorts of inorganic chemicals which eventually becomes useless.

I have tried it and still use neem oil in my tomato garden. It is very efficient and reliable for me.
Nevertheless, another thing is planting resistant varieties to TYLCV and other diseases you intend addressing.

Nice bro! TYLCV is as the result of white flies. if you can eradicate it, you have less of that disease. But are you sure you can handle whiteflies organically on like 3 plots? I gat to pick your idea of neem if it really works, but hmmmmmm.....

The are still aphids and thrips. These two are the other bastards. They are tiny demons thst send farmers to village. There is Bacterial Spot Virus caused by thrips on tomatoes thst has destroyed over 50 000 acres in the US. No solution until tolerance cultivars were made.

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How do you sell the seed?
Price per gram or per seed count

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my brother,there somethings you don't even wish to happen to your enemy,whitefly and leaf miner in cucumber and red spider mites iand fruit borers in garden egg,I laugh when I read some people talking about organic insecticide,I still wonder how it can be used on let's say 1acre of cucumbers infected with whiteflies,it's obvious the farmer will die from inhaling the baking soda,garlic, pepper and neem oil mixture before the insests.

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austinomd:
Good Day People, its such a nice thread you have here, allot to be learnt.

Sorry where can i get seeds for pepper and Okro in Lagos, and also i'll appreciate if there is anyone that can help me with details of fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides needed to farm Okro from planting to harvest.

Thanks.