damoceile:


sir which(cucumber or watermelon) is best to plant in the south west, Ibadan precisely??

still working on starting with cucumber by January ending of next year..

sosowater:


I'll start on a plot or half plot for now. Not in a hurry cos I don't want to end up getting my hands burnt.

I already planted cucumber on a separate land. Done it before but in a small scale. Hope it commands good price in the market during dry season? Sold at Coke Onitsha for 3500 per bag this past October.

okoroemeka:
the best melon variety for commercial farming is heracules or logone f1,this two varieties are Charleston grey type oval that does not split or explode when subjected to water stress you won't like to come to your farm to see hundreds of melon balls exploded and useless ,for cucumbers in Southwest I think Murano 2f1 is still the best,but I think there's a particular lion seed variety that looks incrediblely interesting,has big shape like cu999 and deep greenish like Murano.

my2chains:


how many cucumbers on average can fill a bag before been sold?

Or is it just measured out and be put inside a sack bag till it is filled up?

Like how many bags can you get from just a plot of land per harvest

bigcil2:


Which one is the lion seed?

my2chains:


how many cucumbers on average can fill a bag before been sold?

Or is it just measured out and be put inside a sack bag till it is filled up?

Like how many bags can you get from just a plot of land per harvest

okoroemeka:
we will definitely try the lion seed during rainy season,a lot is at stake this dry season and we are not ready to play try your luck,but mere looking at the size and colour of the fruits has said a lot,the damn thing is almost black.

okoroemeka:
the best melon variety for commercial farming is heracules or logone f1,this two varieties are Charleston grey type oval that does not split or explode when subjected to water stress you won't like to come to your farm to see hundreds of melon balls exploded and useless ,for cucumbers in Southwest I think Murano 2f1 is still the best,but I think there's a particular lion seed variety that looks incrediblely interesting,has big shape like cu999 and deep greenish like Murano.

orpeeh:
interesting, have a major issue with my koloss f1, the balls were ok as of last week.. got to the farm to see 40% balls bursted.

okoroemeka:
that is a serious issue with crimson sweet types like kaolak,koloss,sugar baby and other roundish melon they tend to blow up at any slightest water stress and the damaged melons will attract animals and insects that will cause futher problems,I feel for you magine lossing half of your expected yield,first planting this year we lost a whole farm of melon to small animals and rodents almost 1000 melon balls lost not even one ball was harvested and someone will come and say that melon will make you smile to the bank, Haahaaàaaaaaaa,very funny.

tpben:


So you think it can't make one smile to the bank sir?
Is melon not profitable?
If you didn't record success in that does not make it unprofitable.
I grow them and they have been pretty easy.
Had bursting issue with Koloss f1 too and learnt lessons. This happened while I had Kaolack side by side.
Anyway, I rest my case nwanne.
I no get strength to argue.

tpben:
Check out for thieves and that of animals, you can use those locally made bottle bell to scare away.

tpben:


So you think it can't make one smile to the bank sir?
Is melon not profitable?
If you didn't record success in that does not make it unprofitable.
I grow them and they have been pretty easy.
Had bursting issue with Koloss f1 too and learnt lessons. This happened while I had Kaolack side by side.
Anyway, I rest my case nwanne.
I no get strength to argue.

OluchiDelly:


Mebros do you know much about the catalogue of this particular one, esp the disease resistance ability?
Sometimes, the images on those packs could be misleading. For instance, the size of the padma f1 that I planted was extremely bigger than what is drawn on the pack.

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tpben:


So you think it can't make one smile to the bank sir?
Is melon not profitable?
If you didn't record success in that does not make it unprofitable.
I grow them and they have been pretty easy.
Had bursting issue with Koloss f1 too and learnt lessons. This happened while I had Kaolack side by side.
Anyway, I rest my case nwanne.
I no get strength to argue.

ideepaul:

i hope the padma did very well 4 u sir!did you get the padma in seed count(100) seeds or in grams? cos I can't find it in grams arnd here and how much was it Sir?

tpben:
Watermelon biggest issues are cracking, abortion of fruit, animals NOTE: if you can't handle animals, leave it.
It can be grown all year round in the North but only two times in Southern Nigeria. This is as a result of rain pattern.
Watermelon does not like too much water but that does not mean it should be starved. Two weeks to harvest, if it can be starved, better. This increases the sugar content.
The two seasons are from February to March [5th] depending on rain pattern of the year. Then from September to when ever as far you can irrigate. The late season planting will not require irrigation since it rains and stops when the watermelon is maturing.
Don't plant kollos f1, it has low market value. Study your market.
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Will continue later

OluchiDelly:


Yes. if u are not staking, dont plant it, cos all the vines wl be broken by the weight of the big fruits. Good disease resustance.i had issue with a prolonged flooding, which gave room for blights. Other varieties bowed but it did not bow easily to blight, with the help of fungicides tho.

Per grams(5), #2,500

okoroemeka:
how many days did the padma tomatoes take to maturity? 8 wks After Transplanting, it could be shorter in a more sunlight atm what type of fungicides did you use? Cupper based plus metalaxyl is it staked like cucumbers? Yes, if u operate a saw mill or close to bamboo forest, u can stake individually and tie it to the stick like d method used to execute robbers in those dsys what's the spacing? 50cm I am asking this questions because by may-july a basket of tomatoes will go up to #25-30,000k and I will not fold my hands and watch that Bonanza pass by.

okoroemeka:
how many days did the padma tomatoes take to maturity?what type of fungicides did you use?is it staked like cucumbers?what's the spacing?I am asking this questions because by may-july a basket of tomatoes will go up to #25-30,000k and I will not fold my hands and watch that Bonanza pass by.

tpben:


This is also good sir. I grew some this year and I was able to get average 270 naira per plant. No much care sha.
I will try that out next year maybe on 2 plot or more.
Its labor intensive [staking] sha but worth it.

Psalmy2cute:

How many tomato plant did you grow?? And was It on 1 plot?

okoroemeka:
i am not saying that melon is not profitable,but that the inconvenient truth be said ,it's a tricky crop to grow and will present a series of surprise packages to farmers,for instance melon is prone to serious fungal diseases,any shortcut in irrigation can produce split balls,if you plant in an area with high population of squrriel,rodents, grass cutters, porcupine,etc they will make sure you are frustrated,any insect that takes a bit or puncture the ball it's gone and rotted unlike cucumbers that can even be cut in half still it will heal over and still be sold, irrigation can only be achieved by drip or furrow type,don't even think about using hose and pump on a melon farm,the weeding also is timed with military precision or less if shoots are running and you come to weed and disturb the crop the farm may crash,all this and many more are experiences we have with melon,it is not as easy as other veggies like cucumbers,pepper or garden egg.theres a reason it is called ogbanje crop.

frankedoka:

I have gone to the market to some research about cucumber. I observed that all cucumber varieties are not sold the same price. For example, Cu 999 sells for 3,600 a bag while another variety known as jos sells at 8,100 per bag. The problem is that I have not seen any seed known as jos. I think they call it jos because it is grown in Jos Plateau state. Please who knows how I will get this particular seed. Thanks in advance.

ANOCETS:


Can you describe how the fruit look...
Colour, size,length etc

okoroemeka:
this is the pics of the elusive Jos variety sent to me by frankedoka,I think it will be better for the forum to has a say on the variety,I have a strong suspicion that it is an opv variety probably marketer ,pointsett or supermarketer,just a strong suspicion because of short size and visible spines it cannot be a hybrid,let's have different opinions,and if there are farmers around Jos that is reading pls input your opinion or findings let us know what that cucumber is called or how to get it,I am even suspecting that it can be recycled Hybrid variety that has been planted and recycled over the years had turned to another type of variety that is peculiar to Jos alone.

okoroemeka:
this is the pics of the elusive Jos variety sent to me by frankedoka,I think it will be better for the forum to has a say on the variety,I have a strong suspicion that it is an opv variety probably marketer ,pointsett or supermarketer,just a strong suspicion because of short size and visible spines it cannot be a hybrid,let's have different opinions,and if there are farmers around Jos that is reading pls input your opinion or findings let us know what that cucumber is called or how to get it,I am even suspecting that it can be recycled Hybrid variety that has been planted and recycled over the years had turned to another type of variety that is peculiar to Jos alone.

OluchiDelly:

Definitely not.pointsett. pointsett has very blunt edges.This skin appears smoother and darker than marketer's. Not familiar with supermarketer, I have not planted it before.