Mooh247:


F00ll, what do you have to comment?
BMC

micellgevity:
Okay. By the way I started around January. I was just watering it like once in a week until rain takes over.
This is more like an update. See the link to when I started. https://www.nairaland.com/6927505/vertical-yam-farming-diary

Raph82:
Bro let me ask you a question, have you harvested a yam before? how does it grow? vertically or sideways?

kenny714433:



So you think a whole yam is like waterleaf that you can plant in a sack.
Do you know that yam is a deep rooted crop? Or you think he's talking about sweet potato?

Have you even been to a yam farm and see how the roots spread? Now, he will have to confine the roots to just a bag of cement.

Ok, check how the yam is growing, compare it to the normal growth of yam.

That yam can never bear good yield. Let’s just wait till he updates us when he harvest. I know you have never been to a farm before �

kenny714433:



So you think a whole yam is like waterleaf that you can plant in a sack.
Do you know that yam is a deep rooted crop? Or you think he's talking about sweet potato?

Have you even been to a yam farm and see how the roots spread? Now, he will have to confine the roots to just a bag of cement.

Ok, check how the yam is growing, compare it to the normal growth of yam.

That yam can never bear good yield. Let’s just wait till he updates us when he harvest. I know you have never been to a farm before �

Raph82:
If he plants on the ground, the land will be tilled, and the number of stands that little space will contain will not be worth the energy and time put into this. Sack farming has its advantages.
- No competition among plants for soil nutrients, water, light etc. Each plant has its own space to thrive.
- It is easier to control weed and carry out other management practices such as mulching, manure or fertilizer application and so on in sack farming than planting on bare ground
- There's no limitation to farming with this method, as it is possible to farm even in urban centers, on concrete floor space and so on. You can't till the concrete floor of your compound to plant yam, but with sack farming, you are good to go.
- With sack farming within your neighbourhood, there's no fear of attack either by herdsmen or bandits, at this time that everyone is scared to go out into the bush to farm, this is your best bet.

chinedu234:
Started this little experiment in 2017. We have followed up thereafter. See our current planting and some of last year harvest.

Raph82:
Smiles, don't worry, I've never been to the farm before, but I did not study Agriculture on paper, we are all in this together, to really prove your point, you can plant in a sac and plant on the ground, give the same plants equal treatment, make sure you plant on the same type of soil, top soil. Then compare the result at the end of the day. You waiting for the OP's result may not cut it, and it won't be fair to conclude before starting an experiment. There are many factors that can cause stunted tubers at harvest, if all conditions are perfectly met, you'll be amazed with the result. Mind you, with the roots, yam has a wonderful root system that finds its way into the soil, senses where the nutrient is and moves to the direction. We've seen roots finding its way amidst rocky soil, that's root for you.

micellgevity:
My vertical yam farm.
1st pix- When I was mixing soil with manure.

2nd pix- When I was transplanting from the nursery.

This is just a practical of vertical yam farm in my compound as I have 2,200 heaps of yam at farm that I planted almost the same time with this. Those ones have not sprouted as they didn't enjoy watering as I water these at home.

tonididdy:
This will have limited growth I believe, the tuber sizes will be hindered I assume

But the harvest will be so easy as peeling a lollipop wrapper

Raph82:
Smiles, don't worry, I've never been to the farm before, but I did not study Agriculture on paper, we are all in this together, to really prove your point, you can plant in a sac and plant on the ground, give the same plants equal treatment, make sure you plant on the same type of soil, top soil. Then compare the result at the end of the day. You waiting for the OP's result may not cut it, and it won't be fair to conclude before starting an experiment. There are many factors that can cause stunted tubers at harvest, if all conditions are perfectly met, you'll be amazed with the result. Mind you, with the roots, yam has a wonderful root system that finds its way into the soil, senses where the nutrient is and moves to the direction. We've seen roots finding its way amidst rocky soil, that's root for you.

kenny714433:


Smiles... Its ok then. I don't know what species of yam you might think of, or the species the op must have planted.

If its the Abakiliki species that I do plant, some of the harvest are way longer than a bag of cement, and very fat in breadth.

So imagine confining that to a bag of cement, you have certainly killed your harvest. In addition, the growth is not what one can think of in a bag of cement. We use strong and longer bamboo to stake them. Even at that, most of them still break the stake when there's wind.
I think those from Benue, Nasarawa etc can give you a better picture of planting in a bag and in a soil.

DILLIONS9:
Can vegetables also be planted in sacks. Any answer please?.

micellgevity:
It was in January during the dry season. If I planted directly on the ground, the water I was using to wet it would be sinking and that would be a waste.

Mooh247:
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