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I am preparing to start pumpkin farming I am a small scale farmer based in the central highlands of Kenya in Gatundu sou

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...

Asked by: Wainaina Mbugua (1 point)   Posted: November 26, 2014

1 answer    1936 views
Bug fix

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

Asked by: reem (9 points)   Posted: November 26, 2014

1 answer    1278 views
Lime tree not fruiting

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...

Asked by: reem (9 points)   Posted: November 26, 2014

1 answer    1907 views
Looking for a plant pathology lab for hydroponic growing.

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...

Asked by: Tony (8 points)   Posted: November 25, 2014

1 answer    2118 views
Yellowing and spots on my hydroponic rex lettuce

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...

Asked by: Tony (8 points)   Posted: November 24, 2014

2 answers    2686 views
Squash plants flowering but not producing fruit

Squash    None Given



my plants have been flowering just great but then the flowers would fall off and not produce a fruit ??

Asked by: reem (9 points)   Posted: November 24, 2014

2 answers    2611 views
Perlite soil

PlantVillage    iran



Hi. How do I make a perlite soil non-hydrophillic?

Asked by: sajjad (1 point)   Posted: November 23, 2014

1 answer    1491 views
Stunted tomato plants

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...

Asked by: Gautam Kumar (1 point)   Posted: November 21, 2014

2 answers    3010 views
How to get rid of aphids on my chilli plants?

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...

Asked by: Nuggets (1 point)   Posted: November 19, 2014

2 answers    5295 views
Spots on my broccoli leaf

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

Asked by: reem (9 points)   Posted: November 18, 2014

1 answer    2885 views
spanish

PlantVillage    Montreal



Do you have this app for Spanish speakers? Do you have plans for make an Spanish version?

Asked by: carol (1 point)   Posted: November 18, 2014

1 answer    1870 views
Link to list of dioecious and monoecious plants?

General    None Given



can someone direct me to a link or a chart that lists the dioescious and the monoecious vegetables, leaves, and fruits please. Thanks

Asked by: reem (9 points)   Posted: November 18, 2014

1 answer    8616 views
Chili plants not growing well

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?

Asked by: WillemDgrot (1 point)   Posted: November 17, 2014

2 answers    2727 views
Very sad, chilli-less, chilli plant
Are there any other plants that grow their fruit underground like peanut?

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.

Asked by: arnon (1 point)   Posted: November 17, 2014

1 answer    3436 views
Caterpillar inside Bhut Jolokia chilli

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?...

Asked by: Allan Bennett (2 points)   Posted: November 17, 2014

1 answer    2540 views
Pic of Bhut Jolokia with caterpillar inside
Avocado tree shedding all leaves.

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,...

Asked by: Rahel Salathé (13 points)   Posted: November 17, 2014

2 answers    18333 views
Unknown pest eating cabbages

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...

Asked by: Peter Wright (1 point)   Posted: November 16, 2014

3 answers    2599 views
One of the sunflowers started drooping today, missed watering.

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...

Asked by: Naveed (1 point)   Posted: November 15, 2014

1 answer    6173 views
Growing mushrooms in a greenhouse

Mushrooms    KISUMU KENYA



is possible for one to grow mushrooms in a green house and succeed in kisumu kenya

Asked by: FREDRICK NYAMSEKE (1 point)   Posted: November 13, 2014

1 answer    2001 views
Cucumber leaves with yellow margins and dark veins

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...

Asked by: Colin Talbot (2 points)   Posted: November 12, 2014

1 answer    3424 views
Yellow Margins
Ants on squash and beans

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

Asked by: reem (9 points)   Posted: November 11, 2014

3 answers    2409 views
Curling tobacco leaves

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?

Asked by: ramprasad.maddu (1 point)   Posted: November 10, 2014

3 answers    4976 views
curling disease in tobacco
Pruning grapevine during growing season

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?

Asked by: roger bott (2 points)   Posted: November 6, 2014

1 answer    1986 views
How I can chemically decompose a sixty feet tall coconut tree which is endangering my house?

Coconut   



How I can chemically decompose a sixty feet tall coconut tree which is endangering my house?

Asked by: RANJIT JYOTIRANJAN BISWAL (1 point)   Posted: November 5, 2014

2 answers    1841 views
Spots on bean leaves

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

Asked by: reem (9 points)   Posted: November 5, 2014

2 answers    3438 views
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Transplanting cucumbers and squash grown in pots

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...

Asked by: reem (9 points)   Posted: November 4, 2014

3 answers    3040 views
Plant roots visible at top of pot

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?

Asked by: reem (9 points)   Posted: November 4, 2014

1 answer    1420 views
Edible leaves

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...

Asked by: reem (9 points)   Posted: October 31, 2014

2 answers    2164 views
Chili pepper plants have been destroyed by a stem disease

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

Asked by: ramprasad (2 points)   Posted: October 26, 2014

1 answer    1816 views
Mulberry stopped producing fruit

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...

Asked by: reem (9 points)   Posted: October 21, 2014

2 answers    2132 views
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