Alpine Orchard - Chapter 370

[Chapter 370]

the rest of the time, pollinate the watermelon in the morning and comb the vines of muskmelon and netted melon in the afternoon.

The benefits of neat vines have already appeared.

Not only has the work of pollination become easier, but it is also very simple to check the growth of watermelons.

Jinmeiren, a plant of three melons or three or four.

Two main vines, one or two secondary vines.

Because of the color markings, Ye Mo and the others know the specific pollination time of the watermelon.

The main vine is growing strong and has climbed to the top of the shelf. In nine days, at least 3 watermelons performed well on the main vine…

The location of the melons has a great influence on the size of the fruit and the level of yield.

Generally speaking, melons with the first female flower on the main vine will have small fruits and poor quality due to insufficient nutrition, such as deformed melons and hollow fruits. Its yield is one-third less than that of melons sitting on the second female flower.

The watermelons in Ye Mo’s place have strong vines and well-developed root systems, so those things don’t exist. There is no difference between the first female flower sitting on a melon and the second and third female flowers sitting on a melon.

The flowering period at the seed greenhouse is much earlier, which can be regarded as the experimental field for Ye Mo and the others.

The interval between two melons on the main vine is more than 6 days, one big and one small.

If there are two melons on the side vine, the first melon on the side vine is about 4 days later than the first melon on the main vine. Vice vine second melon, 8-10 days late.

If there is only one melon on the vice vine, it is easy to say. You can keep it however you want…

While pollinating the watermelon, pick out the watermelon you want to keep, and pinch the tip by the way. Try to make one plant with four melons, and keep three melons only if a few subvines do not grow well.

Little Jinfeng and Little Bee, these two small melons, normally weigh two to three catties each. For these two kinds of watermelons, most growers are not pursuing big watermelons, but trying to make watermelons small. Small enough to hold a watermelon in one hand, the best.

Kou Kou Crisp, which was popular in the market before, is this kind of small watermelon. The watermelon is small, with thin skin, delicate flesh and good taste.

Those small watermelons are basically a multi-melon plant. Otherwise, three or four thousand plants will be planted in one acre of greenhouses, and they will be hung up with ropes.

The watermelon vines on Ye Mo’s side are very thick, especially at the root of the main vine, the thickest sections are as thick as a middle finger. Even if it is thick, the color is still very difficult.

The two small watermelon varieties are all three vines, and try to keep 2 for each vine. There are six per plant…

the muskmelon and netted melon, after the watermelon finished sitting, also bloomed one after another.

The pollination time for these two kinds of melons is also in the morning, and the best time is from 8:00 to 10:00…

During this time, we have been pollinating the watermelons, and everyone’s speed has also been developed.

The remaining 44 greenhouses were pollinated once in the morning. There are colored markers, just mark the flower seats that have been pollinated.

Pollinate the melons in the morning, and then get busy with watermelon work.

Cantaloupe also left 3 vines, 2 melons per vine. The work of pollination will continue until the 6 melons are sitting…

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the pollinated watermelons will then start to swell, every few days.

During this period, the soil humidity should be maintained, and the foliar fertilizer should be sprayed once…Wait until all the watermelons are firm before watering, that is, water and fertilizer management.

With Lingquan, the watermelons on Ye Mo’s side are actually not very particular about management.

If there is no spiritual spring, according to Ye Mo’s management method, it will definitely not work. Or if there are fewer spiritual springs, it won’t work either.

Busy, time flies.

It’s December.

The cantaloupe has also been pollinated, so keep 6 melons for each plant as much as possible. Netted melon, one plant has three vines, one vine protects one melon, that is, one plant has three melons.

Cantaloupe and netted melon are also finished.

afternoon.

The workers continued to work in the watermelon greenhouse, pocketing the watermelons and hanging them up.

The biggest golden beauties weigh five or six catties each. If there is no net bag for hanging them, the stem of the watermelon may not be able to bear this weight.

Now that he’s not busy with work, Ye Mo won’t go to the fields himself, but is basking in the sun on the recliner outside the warehouse, drinking tea.

The temperature is just right, the outdoor temperature is in the early 20s during the day, which is very comfortable.

The sun was so warm that I almost fell asleep, the old man came over and said, “You are comfortable.”

Ye Mo rubbed his face with a smile, “Is the oil tanker coming?”

“Come right here.” The old man People say.

The greenhouse on Ye Mo’s side needs to maintain the most suitable temperature for the growth of melon vines, and the greenhouse has to be heated almost every night. Occasionally, the greenhouse is also heated during the day… the

fuel consumption is very high.

With the heater on for an hour, the maximum fuel consumption is 16 liters.

On average, about 15 liters per hour.

The temperature dropped suddenly two days ago. On a light rainy day, the highest temperature was 12 degrees during the day and the lowest temperature was 4 degrees at night.

In just one day, Ye Mo spent more than 80,000 yuan in gas expenses.

In the next few days, the night temperature was also extremely low, more than 20,000 a day.

From the installation of the heater to the present, the cost of oil has dropped by 450,000 in more than a month. Counting this time to fill up the gas, the fuel cost will be more than five hundred thousand.

For the electricity bill, I recharged 100,000 yuan, and there are more than 60,000 yuan left.

As long as the sun is out and it hasn’t rained… the exhaust fan will be turned on at noon.

375 2.2kw exhaust fans consume more than 800 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour, which is very scary.

The refueling truck came, and it cost tens of thousands of dollars to fill up all the heaters.

“The expense of your greenhouse is really not small.” Lin Shan said tut-tsk.

“As long as the watermelons are all ripe, it will be very profitable.” Ye Mo smiled and lit a cigarette for the old man, and saw Tang Xun, who was a little bald, riding a battery car.

“Baby with a bald head, what’s wrong with you?” Tang Xun approached, Ye Mo saw him covered in mud, and said.

“The road over the gravel slope is slippery and I fell down.” Tang Xun said, “Is the unicorn melon on your side ripe?”

“Not yet.”

“Not yet ripe?” Tang Xun wanted to see Ye Mo The quality of the watermelon here.

“Kirin melons are reserved melons, late-ripening.” Ye Mo said.

“How did you manage it, and make the unicorn melon late-ripening?”

“Reduce the temperature in the greenhouse.” Ye Mo confused, looked Tang Xun a few times, and said, “I haven’t seen you for a while, why are you bald again?” He was a little bald before, but now he is even more bald.

“Damn, I’m so worried.” Tang Xun scratched his head and said, “I copied your homework in a big shed, and almost wiped out the whole army.”

“I told you before, your side There are at most two vines of unicorn melons, one vine and one melon. You must listen…” Ye Mo took out a cigarette and handed him one: “What’s the matter with you coming here?”

“Come and take a look at your greenhouse here. “Tang Xun said: “The little watermelons on your side should be ripe soon, right?”

“In three to five days, the first batch of pollinated melons should be ripe.

” It is.” Speaking of this, Tang Xun was a little excited, and then said: “Have you negotiated a price with Li Xuebin? The watermelon over there is so beautiful.”

“Not yet.” Ye Mo said: “Just the second batch of melons bearing fruit What’s so exciting, my batch here is several melons.”

Tang Xun rolled his big eyes and said, “Why do you manage those melons? I said in the group that Lu melons were managed at the same time, and the growth of Lu melons was very good. No one in the group believed it. How did you manage them?” Huh?”

“That’s how it’s managed.” Ye Mo spread his hands.

There are 17 greenhouses in Tang Xun’s side, 13 of which are managed according to one plant and one melon tube.

His watermelons are 7-10 days away from picking.

Leave the main vine first, and leave one or two side vines when the main vine is more than half a meter high. Keep one melon first, and when the first melon is 7-10 days away from the maturity period, select a second crop of melons on the vines that have not sat on melons, that is, pollinate the female flowers…the time must be precise. In this way, water and fertilizer management can be carried out after one melon is picked, and then one or two new vines can be selected, which is three crops of melons, and so on, four crops of melons, five crops of melons, the same… The

premise is that the melons and vines cannot age . As long as the melon vines are not aging and the temperature is suitable, new vines can continue to grow.

Greenhouses are the most suitable for cultivating multiripe watermelons, especially those with temperature control management.

Ye Mo has been busy with his own affairs, he hasn’t been to the Crushed Rock Mountain for a long time, and Tang Xun rarely comes up, so he often communicates with Ye Mo on the phone.

(end of this chapter)