samsard:
I hardly work on anything less than 20, 25 minutes

Thank you sir for your assistance.
Please how does one handle these below

When a REP. Is talking and the customer talks in between while the REP. Continues talking?

Can one delete timestamp or leave it blank?

If a statement was made in a timestamp but completed in the next timestamp, how does one write it?
Should it be written on the first timestamp, or all sentences carried over to the proceeding timestamp where the statement was completed?

How does one use ellipses correctly?

Thanks in anticipation.

I have been having 1 as my rating.

samsard:
My longest call EVER.

Please answer these sir!

Do you use a laptop or phone?
Which kind of ear phone do you use?
What does one do when a sentence isn't clear enough [ what can be used to increase clarity?]
What are the apps you use?
Other tips too.
Thank you sir

Have gotten 1 ratings for 3 consecutive times now.
I Don tire. Any help?

emmybiz:

27k

Can I get your contact bro? Biko
Where did you buy in Kano?
Do give us feedback on germination

emmybiz:
I just bought 50 GM avenir f1 . will start nursery next week. Please, experts in the house what other fungicide should I use with ridomil gold. plus pesticide to use...

okoro Emeka, ogbongenet over to u

How much did you buy the 50g?

Psalm4kute:
Failed batch vs new batch
You can see the lack of green from the failed batch

You soaked your seeds?

okoroemeka:
what you will know is that yield depends on many factors like soil, management,etc,but from what I have seen with my two korokoro eyes the yield will be the same

Nawao

okoroemeka:
I went to a medium sized pepper farm today and was mildly surprised,the lady said that she bought a satchet of hybrid avenir f1 pepper last 3 years and since than she has been recycling the seed she got from her farm and this year will make it the second generation to be recycled,if I haven't seen the farm I will not believe,the current farm now has been harvested for 9 months now and she has already saved the seed to be planted again, Same size,smell, flavors, nothing different.

What of yield sir

Psalm4kute:
Too much sunlight?? Or too little??

Very little sunlight.

Sunlight
Growing medium


I suspect sunlight, that's why they are growing spindly.

Psalm4kute:

@ the time this post was made.. they where still in the period of harvest.. 1680 pepper stands on 10 ridge bed

Any link to post bro

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vosquare:
Please o
Npk 15 15 15 needed o South West Region Golden friend is not giving me the necessary results

What happened to the Golden 15 15 15?

Psalm4kute:
Seedlings are 5days old today and some are already starting to sprout from the cococoir

Which variety sprouted, Etna or that east west variety

Pistotita:


Bro, very correct feedback. Hehhehe. Like I said, I will just drop comments when I read any real truth and good comment. Excellent feedback. Those two cultivars like I told you are 4th - 10th grade. I know what I am saying. Please, put eat Roma, and eat those two, you will dump those cultivars. See, they dont care about W. Africa. They figure it out that we eat rotten tomato....lol. Those cultivar cannot make it to the US, Canada, or anywhere in Europe. Never. I repeat Never.

When I take my tomato to market, "dem no born dem well....they must buy and take my mobile number....na me dey hide my number". You must just look for a very good cultivar. I know what to ask seed producers to get how sour, sweet, or flavoured a cultivar is. Yeah.. it is about cross breeding.

Let me go further:
Very tough breeds which can resist terrible diseases are tasteless. So, they crossed those kind with very productive breed. High yield + terrible taste. But getting High yield + Good Taste + High Resistant is a lot of work. Deep research. You are getting it now.

Also to get 70g small fruits is very easy because those breeds with disease resistance are usual small fruits. But how do you get 150g plum (not beefstakes) with lots of fruits and then they get ripe without going bad on the vine? Real research. And not GMO. Lol. Of course GMO would be cheap and would have great characteristics.

All Technisem and all East West tomatoes for W.Africa = Ogun or Lagos tomato in mile 12. Buyers look at them and hiss when better market dey. Restaurant owners do not use them because they arent sweet. Mama Nneka who sells along the road will never buy them, she prefers rotten Roma. Lol.


Lol bro. You got it wrong. Those ones are not new improved cultivars. They are improved disease resistant cultivars.

Maybe I should send you some seeds when my new seeds arrive. And return to give feedback here cos I do not like trying to force people. Bros, you will dump those ones you always recommend. You will dump RZ. I am very confident. RZ has some great and nice stuff....but I know what I am saying.

If I get BHN and Hezera cultivars meant for some other regions (not for W.Africa), you too will shake head and pity W.Africa. Well, RZ is great. I know if I get hold of the parent company, I can strike better deal with them. But once there is an importer, they will always refer one to the importer if such is representing them here. I have talked about my experience with Hazera. And I gave spoken to one of the RZ guys one time. Very terrible and unconcerned person.i just "waka" away. He doesn't even understand what I wanted to do. Lol. I just left him with his own stuff. And when one of them tried to woo me on my thread, I did not do as if I know them. It was why that Tomato Jos american woman moved to Kaduna and she brings her seeds direct from BHN. I know the exact cultivar she uses. Very excellent. But that is still not my choice. But she fat it right. She is a smart woman. Very intelligent.

Even with the comments here, will seller wants to sell to Nigerians? Of course not. Just imagine. You want to buy 50g of around 16,000 seeds you can use on 1 ha to get minimum of 80 tons of sweet tomato (which they are sure if you do everything you will get it right). Check the calculation at end of this post.

40,000 naira for 1,000 seeds is just $111 seeds. Ha! Poverty na real bastard bro. Even there are mice 1,000 seeds at N15000 ($42). E no go better for poverty ooooo. Poverty craze.... no be small. Walahi.

From 1,000 seeds with 99% germination rate, and 950 survives. You perfected it and you get 6kg per plant. Of course I get up to 10kg or more. Just 950. And you space them very well. Less work, less stress, and you do pathogen soil test (not talking about nutrient test). You know exactly the right chemicals or organic to use. And you have a plan. Of course, with soil test, two farms can never have the same spraying formula. Never and never. It's like sensitivity test of antibiotics. The best tests will even show you the active ingredients to use. And almost all the most sensitive chemicals are not in Nigeria. Maybe you start getting sensitivity of like 50% here. Lol. Tell me, how you will not make it. No guess work. Poverty na bastard. Before I reach 1/4 of the procedure, NL farmer don pick race.

Pro farmers are not magicians. They conducts tests like doctors. NL farmers are like those local herbs sellers. They just put together different herbs....bammmmm! And they start spraying. But what if you sit down and let soil test and tissue tests guide you? Why will you fail? Why? It is almost 100% guaranteed. Only natural disaster can destroy such investment. Who born disease? Never and never.

Back to my calculation 950 plants of 6kg each will give 5.7tons. When you buy such seed, try just 10 to perfect it till get get it right, or partner with someone who knows how to grow it. That's 142 baskets over 9 - 16 weeks harvest. You must get it right. If you do not last up to that duration, harvest will reduce drastically. Meaning you need minimum of 5 months on th field. 142 baskets at N20,000 (1st grade) reported by that mile 12 guy is what? Let's even say 5 baskets dont make it to market. That's N2.7million on just 1 plot.

If you like believe me, if you like doubt me. Those doing it arent stupid. Those really perfecting their work arent foolish. Multiply that by 15 and see what the fellow is gonna have. And you are saying the seeds are expensive. Na poverty go kill you, I swear. The person who spends over N250k for soil test isnt stupid. He is not daft by using $150 to DHL it. He is not foolish by paying to the government permit to move out soil from Nigeria. And the receiving country wants to be sure what is entering too. Bo one says Nigeria should not develop to have laboratories for these tests.

So, would you do 1 plot if you want to do such? If you are the consultant in charge and you are breaking grounds for these people, and they leverage on your experience, you will charge them N20,000....right?

Ogas and madams, pray to God to bless you so you can do better project. Those doing burpless cukes and selling at N400 - N600 per kg do that the same bag you sell at N4,000 presently in mile...they sell at N16k- N24K arent stupid. They are not foolish buying 1,000 seeds at above N40,000. They are smarter than you (not talking to the two people I quoted above)

Of course your market determines what you do. Maybe I should use a portion of my garden at home to go on a pilot. But really, I am not a person who just likes posting pictures here and there, cos I dont believe in proving myself right. Even I do, 99% will still not be able to afford it. MeHn! "Poverty Mentalo yamayama". "Poverty dey mess up brains."

DHL people are charging me 37,120 to get seeds from kenya that's not up to 750g

That's 70% of actual amount of the seed.

Am feeling that they are overcharging

Is their any other option

okoroemeka:
I think big sun is yellow hot pepper and technisem so agritropic will have it,most times if their office in enugu don't have what we need they can call their office in nsukka or Jos they normally have exotic seeds in stock,but in the south west I think your best bet will be their office inside mile 12 vegetable market they have almost everything there.

Smiles

okoroemeka:
I think big sun is yellow hot pepper and technisem so agritropic will have it,most times if their office in enugu don't have what we need they can call their office in nsukka or Jos they normally have exotic seeds in stock,but in the south west I think your best bet will be their office inside mile 12 vegetable market they have almost everything there.

Smiles

You are explaining to madam Jethro

It's clear na

She asked just to reiterate her stand on technisem seed

Smiles

I don't think anyone is outrightly ruling out technisem.

The issue is germination. But if you can germinate their peppers they are not bad.

Though they might not be the best in terms of resistances.

I rather go for technisem hot peppers than importing costly ones.

Hot pepper is not a big deal here

Pistotita:

I dont even use these two brands you mentioned. Darina and Assila are Seminis. And I have reviewed many of syngenta's products which are not my style. But be rest assured that Seminis and Syngenta are kings of GMOs. Lol.

My guy, keep buying 12,000 seeds for N30k. If it pays you...fine. And you sure know the disadvantages. If I know about seeds I am sure can pull through rainy season when such fruits are expensive, and the cost of the seeds are high, why not?

Listen to yourself sir. You want to sell a basket of 35kg tomato at N15k minimum, but you dont want to buy 1,000 seeds at N30,000. If it is N200,000 for 1,000 seeds and I have tested it, and can work with it well....I will go for it as long as it will give me the expected yield and profit. Not necessarily telling you I am going to buy expensive seeds. Even, I can decide to use Roma OPV and pay zero naira. It is my choice. Not by force. I choose according to the farming condition.

It is your choice. You can keep buying Avenir with 20% germination rate. And then, you have young seedlings that are so weak. Or buy quality that will get the job done. Who is more successful? The one buying cheap seeds? Or the one with excellent seeds?

But not all expensive seeds are good. Always do pilot. And be ready to be "maga". To know "orignal", you must test many seeds and be their "magas". A don be maga to many seeds. But funny, some farmers want some kind of farmers to be the maga doing the pilots. Lol. My brother, the choices we make today determine our tomorrow. I cannot be maga to seeds and then be maga to farmers. You assist them make money and then expect them to join you in future trials. But they do not want to. Oga, such farmer will play smart in his own penury. I will design Gucci bed of poverty for such farmer by making sure I give him "it's coming hopeless hope" treatment. Lol.

I have not used technisem for 3 years now.

I used to source seeds from Benin Republic but that link has closed now.

Looking forward to buying maybe from Kenya.

If I see costly seed with better features and yield, I rather buy than go for cheap ones.

I once bought a brand 1500 seeds for 25k while technisem sold at 3k for 6000 seeds

It all depends.

It even pains me why these companies ain't here.


But mehn truth be told.

Surely there are better brands out there but not every person can afford nor get it

Instead of waiting for seeds that might be elusive, go for what is available and better the process in the future.

We can get better

Having a plot well managed is better than an acre not well attended to

jethro2:
Most Technisem seed are designed for tropical region.
They performed well in dry season and at their worst in rainy season.

Big sun :
I planted since December 2018, I am still harvesting though the yield has drastically reduced. It was not affected by rain.

We started harvesting by April
This is 6 months after

The sets I plant by May 2019 did not survive the rain.
The nursery I did during the rainy season did not survive too

Same applies to Etna and Avenir

It's advisable to establish the seed in dry season so they grow through the rainy period

Technisem seeds have issues with germination.
No one can doubt that.

Even when their seeds arrive newly, you buy, open and plant and you will have good percentage but any left over seed if you try planting after some weeks it will never germinate.

Secondly, if their seeds stay in the shelf for some time they won't germinate again.

Sadly, they will still sell them to customers.

Bought a particular Seminis seed, opened it, planted some and closed back. The seed surprisingly germinated after one year.

It's obvious their seeds don't have longevity.

They should improve on seed germination and preservation and have a return policy.

Same with continental seeds marketed by x gems.

Bought seeds worth 7k last year none germinated and they refused to refund.

And they still continued selling those seeds

ogbongenet:
Una well done oo , always out of town to where the network is not stable... Greet all of una.
Preparing some nursery for a client and I'm very grateful for the result,up to 90% germination.

Wow sir!

I did not know you are specialist in selling seedling and related

okoroemeka:
I have read with amusement some posts by farmers that view those using hoe and Cutlass as stupid fools living in the dark ages,but what they don't understand is the reality on the ground,for example in the East ,land tenure system has fragmented lands that it will be plain silly to call a tractor to work 2-4 plots for you,you will also be lucky if you can find a tractor, Even in our LGA there's no functional tractor,then how do you clear bush,by application of herbicides? using brush cutters? or maybe that small motorized weeding machine?,the end justifies the means,if the advanced farmer pays bulldozer/tractor #100,000k to work on 4 plots and I pay Emma #10,000k to do same work,why would I pay extra for what I know there are hungry people that will do same job for less,most of Africa's problems need African solutions,at the end of the season the question is what quantities of farm produce did you harvest not how many tractors,greenhouse,drip irrigation or raingun you have installed in your farm,the northern farmers are using cheap labour and basic furrow irrigation to produce 80-90% of what is consumed in Nigeria,yet one E-farmer will jump up and say hoe and Cutlass is obsolete while he can't even produce the weekly demand of one market woman,if you use laser beam and drone irrigation in your farm leave others that use Cutlass/hoe and bucket to irrigate their farm,after all it will always have one single purpose crop production.

Leave that I KNOW IT ALL

Psalmy2cute:
I've never really thought of adding cucumber to my farm....
How long does it take for cucumber to mature for harvest

Depending on variety. 38 days upwards

Psalmy2cute:

Well I did put that into consideration... but I had to make a different choice.. since I'll also be employing a farm manager.. who lives at the community where the farm will be established .....

Besides that what I want right now is experience

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Gather the experience doing it yourself, that's the best. Read stuffs online.

Add cucumber too

Better returns and short maturity period.

Psalmy2cute:

I just read this thread from page 1 to the end...
And I must say I've learnt alot from everyone especially you op

I'm not sure theres any other thread on this forum as educative as this thread on pepper farming

I recently bought one acre of land in ogun state.... I bought this land for the purpose of pepper farming.. I've done alot of research on pepper farming.. but sadly I have no experience.. I'd love to visit your farm just to learn a thing or two from you.. I currently live in abeokuta okelantoro area...

An acre for a start?

Why not try small and scale up.

Don't be deceived nor carried away by paper projections on profitability of pepper littered here and there.

Try it first. Know your market and other unforseen circumstances like disease outbreak.

Make you no go lose your capital.

My candid advice

Liftitupo:


You actually deserved what you got earlier. As a matter of fact, he is not moved by your words. Personally I begged him not to release powerful evidences of failed Jethro who keeps attacking everyone. It is true, many people talked to him about her. And after reading chats and emails from those people and what he planned to release in a new thread, the lady will bury her head in shame. But I waved in. I just pray the woman minds her business because I too realised no one actually trained successfully with her. Everything is lies. He really does not need validations because those who know him, know him. If you can read, if you say you have been there, you will understand. I am sure you are just telling lies. You are just here to destroy. It is becoming a gang.

Let me tell you one thing. Pistotita told me what he is after, and I saw it that he is very close to achieving it. I don't understand why he actually is still helping people. I cannot read offensive area. Infact, you got a very good reply. Look at someone who is asking for help, and read his tone. I had a good laugh after reading his response. I laughed so hard.

One area I told him was that a proper check at all his critics, he actually moved the conversation in a way you all actually respect him. You all acknowledge his teachings. Even you have just validated him. Anyone who can think knows that everything here is accurate. To me, you are just one of the trouble makers who has been there and will not leave the low level.

I know that many people follow him. So many have gained. If you use any seed he recommends, you are just on the right way. Many people have changed the kind of seeds they buy because of this thread.

You should be ready to take good care of yourself because you are the one who will be depressed if he starts with you. If you do not like his approach, why keep reading. Has he asked you for money? Did any member of your family or friends accused him of collecting money from you? A man who publicly slammed your money in your faces while others are begging. In fact, you talk nonsense with him, he refunds you fast if you ask him for seeds or anything. He doesn't waste time. I know him for that.

Please, shut him up by showing you have the financial capacity to learn 40 cucumber per plant. If you cannot, leave this thread. You are just embarrassing yourself.

Respect to Pistotita. I respect that man.

Pistotita with another username.

Pistotita:


Keep your relaxation to yourself. You need it more. Learn to guard what you post. Let your brain be faster than your fingers. When you are hit back is when you always say relax. That's the typical Nigerian. If the so called elder is prospering, the words from such will be recommendation, and not attacking missiles. But the words of your so called elder are foo.lishn.ess. Your mentor and elder is a failed farmer who will be old in that miserable village if a drastic step is not taking. But failure is not bad. It happens to everyone. But when the so called elder has become a nu.is.ance attacking anything that seems to hinder people paying N30,000 for training, then, the so called us.e.less elder has a big issue with me. And the u.seles.s elder will get the reward served well.

Obviously, you have disqualified yourself working with me. Lol. When you really get close to me, you will know who I am. Those close to me are even laughing hard at your comments. I am sure my friend close to the border of Cameroon will laugh seriously at this one cos after knowing me well,....Hmmm I can imagine that laugh we had just last week. Immature people like making assumptions of the personalities of people they don't know. It shows me you are very young. It's good that you really know what you say before you approach me. While you are doing "busy body" taking sides with useless mentors and trainers, very few who are like you are working with me, and brainstorming how identified challenges and difficulties can be removed. Brilliant minds are networking. They saw the truths and problems I highlighted are real, and they are joining in solving them.

I received a whatsapp message from a brilliant mind earlier this morning. The chemical and mathematically skill of the brother is nice. Infact, he corrected me, and I never paid attention to that aspect. How I missed it, I didn't know initially, but I realised that it was a laboratory in Nigeria which I took one of my samples to that confused me. And that error stayed with me a very long time. Not until this guy pointed it out. That kind of mind, I want to work with, and not cutlass and hoes mind. I don't need Rank Xerox mind around me. So, keep to yourself. lol.

I see that you are a young fellow with your style; therefore, I pardon you. If you need to really go higher than you imagine in life, get out of your comfort zone. Don't ever criticize anyhow. Don't ever fight the battles of your mentors, and never pick sides. Stay neutral. I repeat, stay neutral, and learn. May God make your hustle prosperous. Amen!

I have never spoken nor chatted with Jethro before. Just been reading some threads she CONTRIBUTED in over the years.

Am not interested in your business. NEVER

I have been growing cukes commercially since September 2014. Not a Bae. May be want to add some crops.

Never bought nor sold e-book, training.

STOP being rude bro.
Courtesy pays sir.

Why disguise? What happened your nairaland username FLUENTINFOR

Have no problem with you but you might not have right intent for being here.

I rest my case

Bye

No one is against your farm sir! Okoroemeka has never organized a training p. Before Neither me. So relax.
your behavior here makes me magine dealing with you real life.
Enjoy sir.

okoroemeka:
maybe your calculations can be wrong how can a tomato plant produce #75-150 naira worth of tomatoes through it's life span,its too small,I think it should be higher than that,i can show you now a pepper plant I personally harvested that yielded half painter yesterday,mind you full painter of fresh pepper is sold #1300 naria,so that one harvest is roughly #600 naira from one pepper plant,we will harvest again Wednesday and I will keep accurate weight and average yield per plant and check what's the price in the market ,it could be impossible to keep the whole record of a pepper farm because they last so long,you can get tried of keeping record.

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jethro2:
I have followed your thread keenly and observed you make a lot of noise for a practising farmer.

No doubt you have practises some of what you write about but believe me several of your postulations are not true

Only a novice will believe you are taking a holiday from a business that fetches you that billion.

In your word "veggie blood money"

Yet you sold off the blood money maker, the green house.
You took holiday from the ATM business

Who does that?
Who.believe that?

You started a farm
You invested so much
The project failed

You sold off the materials to recover your money
You become an agric consultants
You are here looking for people to experiments with as labourers in the guise of you assisting them

Even at that you bashed them at will

They send you private messages cause they see you as an expert a professional but you come here deriding them.

Right on this thread you have proposed so many suggestions of how you want to help people.

You keep coming up with one strategy or the other

What they did not actually realise is that you are not helping them but you want to use them to practise what you have learnt after your failed agribusiness project

I honestly wish people could see you for whom you are


Have you ever heard of empty barrels making the loudest noise?

That's whom you are


And by the way..
Why did you deactivate the fluentifor account to become pisitota?

Do have a lovely day

Never ignore the advice of the elderly