Pumpkin
Gatundu Kenya
I am preparing to start pumpkin farming
I am a small scale farmer based in the central highlands of Kenya in Gatundu south Constituency tee zone a small village called Mundoro.
The Geographical distance between my village and the Capita city Nairobi is less than an hour’s drive. I sell my farm...
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by: Wainaina Mbugua
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Posted: November 26, 2014
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PlantVillage
None Given
i can't edit my profile like change my name into caps letter and can't ad my location or write a bio !! I can't even add my profile picture
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by: reem
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Posted: November 26, 2014
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Lime, sour
None Given
I have a 5' lime tree and it was producing up until it got hacked by aphids and ants !! I sprayed been oil, got rid of them but since then it never produced again! It's input doors not in my green house so the weather is cooking hot, leaves are drying up ? Water it every 3 days ! Shall I take it...
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by: reem
(9 points)
Posted: November 26, 2014
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PlantVillage
western MA/ south windsor CT
I run a small hydroponic grow facility (approximately 5000 square feet) .We are in need of a good reasonably priced lab for testing problems that pop up similar to the one I've posted here .We haven't had good luck with the local extension or college labs as they tell us things that are...
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by: Tony
(8 points)
Posted: November 25, 2014
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Lettuce
western MA/ south windsor CT
We're growing rex butterhead lettuce in a NFT hydroponic system inside under lights. We've been battling potato aphids w/ Nuke em a omri listed food grade insecticide that uses citric acid and yeast . we're now seeing necrotic spots aa well as yellowing of the leaves the last few days. I've...
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by: Tony
(8 points)
Posted: November 24, 2014
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Squash
None Given
my plants have been flowering just great but then the flowers would fall off and not produce a fruit ??
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by: reem
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Posted: November 24, 2014
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PlantVillage
iran
Hi. How do I make a perlite soil non-hydrophillic?
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by: sajjad
(1 point)
Posted: November 23, 2014
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Tomato
Haryana, India
Hi, all. My tomato plants seem to be stunted. They're about 50 percent as tall as they should be. I hope you can see that the leaves looks a bit wilted too. This is also the case for many -- but not all -- of the plants over a 20 acre area, despite no behavior changes in irrigation or fertilizer...
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by: Gautam Kumar
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Posted: November 21, 2014
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General
None Given
I have quite a lot of aphids on my young chilli plants (bird's eye chilli, tabasco, jalapeno) and would like to get rid of them asap. I already tried washing them away, removing them one by one and also spraying water with a tiny bit of liquid soap diluted into it. The result is that they always...
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by: Nuggets
(1 point)
Posted: November 19, 2014
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Broccoli
None Given
I glimpsed one low leaf on the bottom of my broccoli bush that has these spots so I wanted to know what I'm dealing with! It looked like a deficiency or maybe it was swanned with too much water the other night from the heavy rain and storm because it's was lying on the soil!!
Cheers
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by: reem
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Posted: November 18, 2014
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PlantVillage
Montreal
Do you have this app for Spanish speakers? Do you have plans for make an Spanish version?
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by: carol
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Posted: November 18, 2014
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General
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can someone direct me to a link or a chart that lists the dioescious and the monoecious vegetables, leaves, and fruits please.
Thanks
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by: reem
(9 points)
Posted: November 18, 2014
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Chilli Pepper
None Given
I have some very sad, pale, wilted looking chilli plants, with very few chillis on them. They have been growing for about 5 months now. What am I doing wrong?
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by: WillemDgrot
(1 point)
Posted: November 17, 2014
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Peanut (groundnut)
France
Hello, could you please tell me if there are other plants that after flowering, shoots the pedicel into the ground and grow their fruit underground like peanut plants? thank you.
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by: arnon
(1 point)
Posted: November 17, 2014
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Chilli Pepper
Sydney, Australia
I have a Bhut Jolokia Chilli Plant that is growing very well. Lots of fruit. Today a couple of young fruit dropped. At first I thought this was due to such a heavy crop but on opening one of the fruits I found light green caterpillar inside. (See image attached).
Any suggestions on what to do?...
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by: Allan Bennett
(2 points)
Posted: November 17, 2014
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Avocado
State College, PA
I bought a beautiful Avocado plant in summer and planted it outside in a spot with full sun. In the nursery they had advised me to plant it in acidic soil, so I did. Shortly afterwards all the leaves' tips started turning brown and wrinkly. I feared that maybe the spot I had chosen was too hot,...
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by: Rahel Salathé
(13 points)
Posted: November 17, 2014
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Cabbage (red, white, Savoy)
Saltburn, North Yorkshire, England
Major problems with Cabbage leaves being eaten. The plants have been netted so there is no damage from birds. Slug pellets have been deployed and there is no obvious damage from slugs - no trails etc. Some small green caterpillars have been found but not in the quantity that can cause so much...
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by: Peter Wright
(1 point)
Posted: November 16, 2014
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Sunflower
Karachi, Pakistan
I couldn't water the plants today in the usual afternoon time. I decided I wouldn't be a problem as I've watered in the evening on the missed days. But today i found of the sunflowers drooping. The taller plant is fine but the shorter one is drooping from the top. I tried bending it up to check...
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by: Naveed
(1 point)
Posted: November 15, 2014
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Mushrooms
KISUMU KENYA
is possible for one to grow mushrooms in a green house and succeed in kisumu kenya
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by: FREDRICK NYAMSEKE
(1 point)
Posted: November 13, 2014
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Cucumber
UK
Hello, this is my fist deep water culture (DWC) grow and decided to try Cucumbers for my Guinea Pigs. The plant is about 4 weeks old and I'm on 18 hours of light dripfeeding for an hour every 6 hours. I'm using FloraGrow's Micro and Bloom 10ml of each for week 3 for a 15ltr bucket. pH is kept at...
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by: Colin Talbot
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Posted: November 12, 2014
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General
None Given
I see ants on the flowers of my squash plants and my purple beans. Usually it's because of aphids or some disease but when I looked they are perfectly healthy plants and flowers so can that be just part of nature? Just for the info it's in my greenhouse and I have no diseases in any plants at all
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by: reem
(9 points)
Posted: November 11, 2014
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Tobacco
india
I am Ram from India, I am cultivating 3 hectares of tobacco fields in my area, but the plants leaves have curling disease . What do I have to do to control the disease?
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by: ramprasad.maddu
(1 point)
Posted: November 10, 2014
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Grape
bunbury wa 6230
What is the best method of pruning the grapevine to maxamise fruit production. My vine is about 4years old and produces plenty of seasonal vine and leaf growth but only one bunch?
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by: roger bott
(2 points)
Posted: November 6, 2014
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Coconut
How I can chemically decompose a sixty feet tall coconut tree which is endangering my house?
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by: RANJIT JYOTIRANJAN BISWAL
(1 point)
Posted: November 5, 2014
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Bean
None Given
my bean leaves are having these white transparent spots ?! Any clue ?
Living in a raised bed in a green house with a 24C temperature
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by: reem
(9 points)
Posted: November 5, 2014
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PlantVillage
None Given
I have planted cucumbers and squash and each plant is in a separate pot. There are two of each plants in each pot but I'm guessing that it is too small for them because they have flowered already. I want to transplant them in raised beds to bush out comfortably ? Should I go ahead and transplant...
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by: reem
(9 points)
Posted: November 4, 2014
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General
None Given
I sometimes see the roots of some of my plants at the top of the pot of soil, I always bury the seeds as instructed on the packet and I always add more soil when this happens. Is this ok?
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by: reem
(9 points)
Posted: November 4, 2014
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General
None Given
hey guys!
I'm into jucing greens it's just that I'm not so sure of what's edible and what's not from the veggies leaves. I know you can't eat tomato leaves but that's about it. I don't want to juice something toxic like cucumber leaves gives me the creeps because of how itchy my hands become...
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by: reem
(9 points)
Posted: October 31, 2014
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Chilli Pepper
india
I farm one hectare of chilli peppers in India in September -October time. The stem of these plants have been destroyed by a fungus and the plants are dying off How to control? Which type of chemical use
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by: ramprasad
(2 points)
Posted: October 26, 2014
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Mulberry
None Given
I have a mulberry tree that was doing good and fruiting when I bought it but it then stopped producing and the leaf edges are brown and dry as if it's burnt. It's in a greenhouse with a cool temperature of 24C, gets full sunlight , loamy soil , water it every 3 days
PS: from what I know is...
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by: reem
(9 points)
Posted: October 21, 2014
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