Alpine Orchard - Chapter 176

[Chapter 176 Using sweat]

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19 people, responsible for about 200 acres of melon vines.

Ye Mo bought two boxes of bees outside, put them on the side of the hillside, and built a shed for the bees.

After pruning the vines, it’s March.

The watermelons in the fields are blooming one after another.

With bees helping to pollinate, Ye Mo and the others can finally rest for a few days. But it’s not a complete rest, it can only be said to be relaxed for a while.

The watermelon in the greenhouse is expanding at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye. The watermelons in the greenhouse are watered by Ye Mo once a week…the roots of the watermelons are super developed.

Ye Mo would check these watermelons every day.

The expansion period of watermelon is counted from the beginning of fruit setting. For small watermelons, the expansion period is only 20 days, and it will enter the ripening period after 20 days…

Different watermelon varieties and different managements have different expansion periods. For large melons, the expansion period can exceed 40 days, more than 45 days.

Ye Mo moved the scale into the shed, and together with Tang Xun lifted a large melon and weighed it.

“Cowhide, my boss.” Tang Xun looked at the weight, 111 kg, and gave Ye Mo a thumbs up: “Can these watermelons continue to grow?”

“It will definitely.” Ye Mo said: “These are For large melons, the expansion period is about 50 days, or even longer.” I

have been watering the Lingquan, and the expansion period of these watermelons can last for a long time.

Last year’s big watermelon, the expansion period lasted for two months, and then it was fully finalized.

Generally, the larger the watermelon, the less flavorful it will be. Small watermelons taste better… Think about those watermelons weighing more than 200 catties. Under normal circumstances, it usually takes no more than 50 days from fruit setting to finalization (expansion introduction).

The watermelon expands, but the flesh inside will also grow rapidly. If it doesn’t grow fast enough, it will be hollow inside. However, if the growth is too fast, the cells and fibers of the melon flesh will be very thick, which will affect the taste.

But Ye Mo’s big watermelon is big and tastes good. The ability to grow to more than two hundred catties is entirely due to the long growth time.

Ye Mo took out his mobile phone, set up the selfie stick, took a video and sent it to Zhang Yuanqiao, and then made a video call: “Mr. Zhang, these watermelons weigh more than 100 catties.” These melons are not yet ripe…if they are ripe , the same size, but can be a lot heavier.

“It seems that if it grows to two hundred catties, it’s not a big problem.” Zhang Yuanqiao said.

“It shouldn’t be a big problem. How about your watermelon?” Ye Mo said.

“Not as big as yours.” Zhang Yuanqiao said, “What did you use for those watermelons to grow so big.”

“Sweat.” Ye Mo said with a smile.

Zhang Yuanqiao nodded with a smile: “Okay, I look forward to three hundred catties of super-large watermelon.”

After hanging up the phone, Ye Mo looked at Tang Xun and said, “Let’s go over later, if you find a reason, I will tell you The issue of wages. You have worked on these watermelons all the way up to now, and you really can’t do it for nothing.”

“What excuse are you looking for?” Tang Xun said.

“Wait and play by ear,” Ye Mo said. There is still a lot of work ahead. After the new year, everyone has been in the melon fields, and they are all tired.

Parents and the others are all on the netted melon side, pruning the melon vines.

Before, I wanted to keep three melons for one plant of three vines.

The planting density is high, and the Lingquan is not enough. Just one plant with two vines and two melons.

“How much does the watermelon in the greenhouse weigh?” Dad asked.

“It’s basically more than one hundred catties.” Ye Mo said.

“That’s okay. At least, it should be able to grow to more than 150 catties…” said the third uncle.

“It’s not a big problem if it’s more than 150 catties.” Ye Mo went over and took a pair of scissors, and joined the team of pruning melons and vines.

Netted melon, the top one is the main vine, and the bottom one. Both vines grow to the right…

Except for the two main vines, all the newly grown sub-vines are cut off, and the extended vines are fixed.

“How much can a melon be sold for if it grows to more than 150 catties?” Tang Ming asked.

“I had an oral contract with a boss before, 150-230 catties, 20,000 yuan each.” Ye Mo said: “More than 230 catties, 30,000 yuan each.”

“So expensive? That 80 melons, 160 It’s all over.” Tang Ming said in shock.

“If we can sell all of them, it will indeed be 1.6 million. But we only signed 30 big watermelons…” Ye Mo continued: “Cultivating these big watermelons is very troublesome, especially this season… If the price is not good, I won’t specially cultivate these big watermelons.”

“Oral contract, what if the other party backs out at that time.” Uncle Xiao Mian said.

“The other party has paid a deposit of 100,000 yuan. If you repent, it shouldn’t be so… Even if you repent, I won’t suffer. Anyway, I have already accepted 100,000 yuan.”

“That’s right.”

Tang Xun handed it to his uncle and the others Gen Yan came to Ye Mo’s side and said with a smile: “The weather is so hot now, look at my wife, she is tanned… If you can sell all those big watermelons, don’t forget our hard work.”

Ye Mo smiled and said loudly: “When the watermelon is sold, I will give you big red envelopes.”

“You say it.” Tang Xun smiled and asked: “How big is the red envelope?”

“A very big red envelope.”

Yugua Miao During that time, life was relatively easy. Go out and invite people, within 300 yuan a day, you will definitely be able to hire people.

But the work after that is more tiring.

Especially now, in March, the daytime temperature has already exceeded 30 degrees Celsius. The sun is big, it’s hot, it’s sunny…

Now it costs at least 350 yuan to hire someone to work in the fields.

Last year, Ye Mo hired people to open up wasteland, and it cost more than 300 yuan a day. In addition, last year the production team fertilized, and some families also invited people to help, and the cost was basically more than 350 yuan.

After pruning 11,000 vines, it was only after four o’clock in the afternoon. Father Ye asked, “Is there still life?”

“No more,” Ye Mo said.

The watermelons are setting fruit.

The vines on the cantaloupe have also been pruned…

“There will be less work in the future. I will start combing the fruits tomorrow, and there will only be work in the morning.” Ye Mo said.

“Okay, I’m going fishing.” Tang Ming roared, and said, “Let’s go fishing.”

“Go fishing now, can you catch it?” Ye Mo said.

“The water level has dropped several meters, so we can definitely catch it,” Tang Ming said.

“You only joined the air force yesterday.” Ye Ran said with a smile.   ”Yesterday was yesterday, and today is today.” Wang Hao said, ” Yesterday

, the air force will definitely catch fish today. Let’s wait to eat fish tonight.”

Can accept early work. Dad and the others closed work at about this point yesterday afternoon, and they went to the reservoir to go to the air force.

“Brother Ye Mo, our mango orchard is going to be watered and fertilized, go over and help me carry the fertilizer.” Chen Chen said.

Ye Mo finished the work at hand and said, “I’ll take a shower when I go back.”

“We also need to make water and fertilizer in our orchard…” Ye Zhi looked at Ye Mo and raised his eyebrows.

“Just get water and fertilizer, what a big deal.” Ye Mo said, “Our mango orchard also needs to make water and fertilizer… Hahaha, let’s do it together.”

(End of this chapter)