Alpine Orchard

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Back to Gaoshanping, after one o'clock in the afternoon.

Workers are already at work...

The cantaloupe picked today is less than half of what it was yesterday, and the cantaloupe with the No. 2 label has already been picked and is being loaded.

Now that the weather is cooler, Ye Mo doesn't care about taking a nap when he is busy.

Lin Xiaomian drove the car home, Ye Mo came to the shed, took a sip of tea, and helped to load the car together.I worked until after six o'clock in the afternoon before loading the car.

In the next few days, the main work every day is picking melons.

8 day pollination...

Counting from the first day of picking, it took only 6 days for the melons to be picked.

The price per catty is 20 yuan, and 1 ton is 4 yuan.

40 greenhouses, a total of 503.12 tons were picked, which is 2012 yuan.

If you don't count the car that Li Xuebin and the others gave Ye Mo, the output value of cantaloupe is not as good as watermelon.

Even if that car is included, it is not as good as watermelon in terms of output value per mu.

Today is the 24th, and on the 22nd, the watermelons in the greenhouse bloomed some flowers.Less in quantity……

Watermelon flowers can only be pollinated in the morning, and the best pollination time is only two or three hours.In the first two days, the flowers bloomed less, so I set aside more than one hour a day, two hours... that's all.

After the cantaloupe was picked, the watermelons began to bloom in large numbers, which was just the right time.

Pollinate the watermelon in the morning while pinching the heads.

This is the second crop of melons, pinching off the head... that is, pinching off the top buds of the vines.Doing so reduces nutrient consumption and increases the chances of pollination.

Ye Mo's second crop is considered a real second crop. Under normal circumstances, it is not easy to sit on a second crop.

"I'm busy." After eight o'clock, Tang Xun rode his bicycle to Gaoshanping, and found Ye Mo in the shed.

"Yeah." Ye Mo nodded: "The second crop of melons over there are sold out?"

"Picking will start tomorrow." Tang Xun said.

"Is it rated yet?"

"Level one." Tang Xun said.

"What went wrong?"

"The size of the watermelon is not uniform, the thickness of the rind, the sweetness..." Tang Xun shrugged: "It is not bad to reach the first level."

"How much is 1 catty?"

"6 yuan and 5 cents." Tang Xun chuckled.

Although it is not as expensive as the first batch of melons, the second crop of melons is 6.5 yuan per catty, which is still very profitable.

When the melons are harvested, he will recover the cost, all the costs.

In terms of the management of the second crop of melons, the main costs are fuel and electricity.

Heating the greenhouse can earn a lot of money a month.

But in general, the price of the second crop of melons reached 1.4 yuan, and the extra is profit.

The second crop of melons is managed by their family members, and no one is hired. At 6.5 yuan per catty, you can earn a lot.

"Ye Zhi, where's Chen Chen's watermelon?"

"Ye Zhi, Uncle Niu and the others, 4.8 yuan. The watermelons at Chen Chen's side are not well managed. The watermelons are of different sizes, and there are many problems... 3 yuan per catty." Tang Xun spread his hands.

"Three dollars?"

"How long has it been since you visited Chen Chen's place?"

"This season, a watermelon worth 3 yuan...that's a very common watermelon," Ye Mo said.

"Chen Chen and his family don't have enough hands, and they can't always hire people. The progress of the management of the greenhouse has always been piled up, and then they are done together..." Tang Xun said.

Ye Zhi called his father-in-law and mother-in-law over to help with management. 5 laborers are in the greenhouse, and the 17-acre greenhouse...is still very easy to manage.

Chen Chen and the others were just three of them.

Although Ye Mo's parents occasionally went to help, but only occasionally.

If greenhouse watermelon is to produce results, it must be carefully managed.

Chen Chen's father's health is not good, and their family has the most greenhouses, so it's normal that they can't manage it.

"It costs 3 yuan per catty, so it's not a loss." Ye Mo said, "It's fine if you don't lose money."

"Chen Chen's place costs 3 yuan a catty. Maybe he didn't lose money, but he probably didn't make money either. He made a mistake in the beginning of the greenhouse. Although some seedlings were added later, the management was even more messy...the seedlings added later, The growth is particularly bad." Tang Xun also helped Ye Mo pollinate the watermelon, while talking about Chen Chen's problem.

Watermelons are in different growth stages, and the required temperature is not necessarily the same.

The vine growth period, the melon sitting period, the watermelon expansion period, the ripening period...the optimum temperature requirements are different.If the seedlings added later can be managed well, then it will be hell.

"How many pollinating vines do you have here?" Tang Xun asked.

"All the female flowers are pollinated." Ye Mo said.

"all?"

"Spread the net widely." Ye Mo smiled and said, "I'm the second crop of melons on the new vine, and the melon sitting rate should not be high. How many female flowers are there, how much pollination... After that, I will cut off the crooked melons, and the ones with poor growth. melon."

Jin Meiren, just one vine and one melon.

Little bee and little golden phoenix, two or one vine.After all, these two varieties are small melons, and they don't have high requirements for the size of watermelons... as long as they can weigh more than two catties, that's fine.

"The second crop of melons over there should be able to sell for about 50 yuan." Tang Xun said: "And I have also set aside new vines, at least one or two crops can be produced. Greenhouse melons are still very profitable, but My wife doesn't want to grow watermelons anymore."

Ye Mo nodded: "There are many things to do in the greenhouse. But it's about half a year of hard work... It's not bad to earn a million in about half a year."

"Too worrying."

"You used to make cakes, don't worry about it." Ye Mo said.

"Now it's different from before. In the past, I couldn't do it... Now there are 130 acres of pomegranates at home."

"So, your greenhouse is really ready to change hands?"

Tang Xun let out an 'hmm' and said, "17 acres of greenhouses, site construction... I spent about 70 yuan."

Greenhouse steel frame, warehouse, land contract, pit opening, etc.

70 yuan should be included in the manpower input.

"A bit expensive."

"If you want, 50 yuan." Tang Xun said, "When I finish harvesting this year's watermelon, I will transfer it to you."

"It's not that I want...my dad wants my two uncles to come and grow watermelons." Ye Mo said, "They cut bamboo every day in their hometown. They work so hard and don't make much money... Is your greenhouse really worth 50 yuan?"

"50 is transferred, and I don't lose money. After all, Xigua has made money here." Tang Xun said with a smile: "To be honest, the cost of our greenhouse is already high. 70, who wants it?" .”

"Why don't you plant it for another two years?" Ye Mo said, "You don't want to grow a greenhouse anymore. What do you want to do?"

"I haven't thought about it... After the next season in my greenhouse, I want to take a good rest. In fact, as you said, it would be great if our family can manage the pomegranate garden well."

"Whatever you want, if you really don't want to plant greenhouses, I will follow." Ye Mo said: "If you still want to continue planting, then do it."

Tang Xun nodded: "I just suddenly feel that I am getting older and a little powerless."

"In my early thirties, my body will not work...hehehe..."

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