Alpine Orchard - Chapter 428

[Chapter 429 The Adaptability of the Coconut Tree]

After eating.

Lin Xiaomian and Ye Ran went downstairs to open the boxes…

This time they went to Hainan, Ye Mo and the others spent nearly 500,000 yuan in the duty-free shop.

Ye Mo, father, father-in-law… each bought a mobile phone, and Ye Mo bought himself a tablet computer. Then I bought five watches… the price ranged from ten thousand to fifty thousand.

My father and my father-in-law went shopping by themselves and bought some things, but they were all small items.

Lin Xiaomian, Ye Ran, Mom and Xiaomian’s mother…they bought a bunch of cosmetics.

There is a limit on the number of items for shopping in duty-free shops, but there are seven of them in a group, even if there is a limit on the number of places, it is like hoarding goods.

There are 9 bags, I don’t know how many cosmetics, and more than a dozen clothes. More than 20 pairs of shoes…

Because there were too many things, they repacked them after picking up the goods. In this way, the trunks of the two cars were also filled, and there were a lot of things in the compartments.

That is to say, their cars are very big, a sedan and an SUV, all of which are more than five meters long.

“You have 5 watches, two ladies’ watches, you and Xiao Mian each have one, see if you like it.” Ye Mo said: “I still have something to do, you pack these things yourself.”

“Okay, hurry up and go out Go.” Lin Xiaomian squatted on the ground and packed up her things.

Ye Mo glanced at the two of them, smiled, got on the little cutie and came to Niubei Mountain.

Of the two reservoirs on Niubei Mountain, the one on the left is still one-third of the water depth, and the one on the right is still one-half the water depth.

Ye Mo entered the space, poured four barrels of spiritual springs out and poured them into two reservoirs respectively. Then it entered the water tower for irrigating the greenhouse… Two buckets of spiritual spring were poured in.

A plastic water tower with a water storage capacity of 50 tons still has more than half of the water in it.

After finishing these tasks, Ye Mo came to the dwarf coconut forest.

There are more than 10,000 dwarf coconut trees.

The shortest variety has about 3,000 plants. After more than a year of growth, and with the irrigation of the spiritual spring, the three thousand ultra-dwarf coconut trees have grown trunks.

However, the trunk is quite thick, with a diameter of more than ten centimeters.

When Ye Mo was in Hainan, he had seen similar dwarf coconut trees, right by the sea…the trees were covered with coconuts, and he even had to squat down when picking coconuts.

Outside the hotel where I stayed, there is a piece of dwarf coconut by the sea. Those coconut trees are bigger than the dwarf coconuts on Yemo’s side

…

The grass in this coconut grove is alfalfa, which has not been tended for a long time, and the grass is lush again.

Ye Mo looked around and found a super-dwarf coconut flowering spikes, his eyes lit up immediately.

“Good guy…” Ye Mo smiled and took out a bucket of spiritual spring from the space, and watered some of this ultra-dwarf coconut tree with flower spikes.

After walking dozens of steps, Ye Mo saw another flowering super-dwarf coconut tree, which had already bloomed.

The tree is very short, but the leaves are very large and long.

A tree with a crown of more than five meters in diameter. The lowermost leaves lie on the ground and spread out.

Ye Mo watered the tree again, more than ten liters of spiritual spring.

Ye Mo hasn’t used Lingquan so extravagantly for a long time. Now, the spirit spring well in the space can only gather about 30 liters of spirit spring in a day. One month, less than one ton of spiritual springs…

these dwarf coconut trees, the leaf ink is of great use, so the spiritual springs are watered more, so that they can grow better.

There are more than 3,000 ultra-dwarf coconut trees. Ye Mo looked around and found that 27 of them had flower spikes, or were about to grow flower spikes. Ye Mo watered more than ten liters of each tree. Then I went to the water tower of super-dwarf coconut trees. This is a water tower with a water storage capacity of 30 tons. Ye Mo poured hundreds of liters of spiritual spring into the water tower at a time…

Gaoshanping mainly grows coconuts and durians…

After the cultivation of Lingquan, the coconut trees have adapted well to the local climate.

Coconut trees have survived two winters and survived very well. Even in winter, the leaves did not turn yellow or fall off.

This proves…

the coconut trees improved by Lingquan have adapted to the local climate and can be planted locally on a large scale.

But durian… no.

There is an essential difference between large-scale commercial planting and small-scale planting.

Take coconut trees as an example. For example, in Beihai, coconut trees can be planted alive, and they can also bear fruit (very few fruits). They are usually used as landscape plants. Even if there are results, the amount of results is very small, and it is easy to die.

Huacheng had also introduced coconut tree planting before, but it failed.

Up to now, there are only a few coconut trees in Huacheng, and some nurseries are still trying to cultivate coconut trees that can be grown locally. There is a coconut grove outside Baihua Valley, the growth is particularly poor, and it has to be protected every winter. The cost of maintaining a coconut tree is very high…

as a landscape tree, but if you say it is a commercial planting, don’t do it.

Another example is lychee, Meizhou, Sichuan, Dongpo’s hometown…the climate there is warm and humid, and the sunshine time is short, which is not suitable for growing lychee. In Sansu Temple, the lychee trees planted by Su Dongpo himself used to be full of fruits. The old tree has been dead for many years, and then the lychee tree was replanted… Now, the lychees are also hanging on the branches.

Can lychees be grown in Meizhou?

Yes …

but can it be grown commercially?

In Dongmen Town, Ye Mo’s grandfather was fooled into planting thousands of durian trees, and he took care of them very carefully. Only more than 500 durian trees survived. In the absence of Lingquan, it has been more than ten years, and it was only a few years ago that a small amount of flowers bloomed… Hundreds of trees, only a few durians. And, that was by chance.

The coconut trees cultivated by Lingquan seem to have adapted to the local climate. But whether it is fully adapted and whether it can be planted in large quantities… still needs to continue to experiment.

Gaoshanping has no reference value because a lot of spiritual springs have been used.

However, judging from the current situation, planting coconuts in large quantities is definitely more reliable than planting durians in large quantities.

There are nearly 10,000 durian trees newly planted in Gaoshanping, and it is estimated that there are only more than 6,000 durian trees that are still alive.

This winter has been extremely cold, and on some nights, the temperature even dropped below zero degrees Celsius.

Coconut trees are growing well.

But the durian tree…

Ye Mo read the information from the Internet, the durian is in the place of origin… there are leaves on the tree all year round.

But in Gaoshanping, after winter, the leaves on the trees fall off quickly.

The durian trees in Hainan also lose their leaves in winter. But the weather conditions in Hainan are definitely better than those in Huacheng. After all, it is tropical…

To measure whether it is a tropical climate, it is to see that coconut trees cannot be planted in large quantities. In tropical climates, coconut trees do not require much human intervention to grow well.

Durian, on the other hand, is more demanding on the climate than coconuts.

If you can grow coconut well, you may not be able to grow durian well. Lingquan is to enhance the adaptability of plants, but it depends on how much Lingquan is used.

If you insist on planting durians in large quantities locally, you will be wasting the spiritual spring.

(end of this chapter)