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When it comes to cultivating groundnut understanding the timing for harvest is very crucial as a farmer that's the only way of ensuring high quality yield preventing the harvest from spending more time than it should under the ground reducing the likelihood of damage from disease and pest.
This post is a guide on how to identify some signs showing that the groundnut plant is ready for harvest and should not spend longer than that time under the ground with specific reference to its leaf and the whole plant altogether.
Key signs of maturity in groundnut plant
Decoloration and spots on leaf
This is the first and most obvious sign, groundnut within its early stages or stages that is not at maturity period, groundnuts have no sign of decoloration except in a condition of disease in plants that is not usually common but other than any sign of disease any decoloration shown of the leaf of the plant is a big sign of maturity after which this sign is also accompanied by lots dark spots on the leaf of the plant that is so consistent on every leaf of the plant.
Yellowing and wilting of the leaf
The leaf of the plant that should be yellow on a normal circumstance begins to turn green at that stage.
Leaf shedding and drying
The plants leafs begins to dry and the plant starts to shed its leaf, plants need their leaf for photosynthesis but the moment it starts shedding its leaf then it is a sign that the plant doesn't need that anymore.
Dig up and inspect the pods
If you still can't tell if the plant has matured then there is one last step that is as accurate as it can get, dig up the plant and observe the groundnut from the roots you can observe the pods or go as far as breaking the pods to observe the groundnut directly.
Uprooting one of the plant doesn't affect anything and if the groundnut is mature then you can be the first to enjoy the produce of your farm.