"Everyone takes a bowl and a chopstick, and puts two seeds in each hole. Don't put more, and be careful not to miss any."

Dad gave everyone a bowl with seeds and a chopstick. Because the pepper seeds were soaked in water and were wet, they couldn't be grasped by hand.

As soon as my hands touched the seeds, they were immediately sticky all over my hands, let alone putting two seeds in one hole.

At that time, either a lot of pills can be put in at once, or not even a single pill can be put in at all, and they will all stick to your hands.

There will be no such problem with chopsticks. The wet seeds will stick to the chopsticks just right. Stick two seeds on the chopsticks, then put the chopsticks into the nutrient plate filled with soil and stick it gently, and the seeds will stick to it.

Nutritious soil above.

A nutrient tray for growing pepper seedlings has 72 holes, and two seeds need to be placed in each hole. In this way, it takes at least 72 seeds to plant a nutrient tray.

However, it usually takes more than 72 times, because it is impossible to stick exactly two pills every time, sometimes there will be more, and sometimes there will be less.

Fortunately, the seeds of peppers are beige and are particularly conspicuous when placed on black nutrient soil. You can tell at a glance whether you put more or less.

So as long as you take a quick look after planting, you can almost see which pit has been planted more and which pit has been planted less.

As for the pepper seeds at Wu Fei's house, they were all bought from the largest breeding company in the province. Although the quality of the seeds can be guaranteed, the price is not cheap. A pack of about 1,000 seeds costs 20 yuan.

This price is the result of the discount. You have to know that if you buy a pack of the same seeds in a general seed store, the price of a pack of the same seeds is almost 30 yuan.

Since Wu Fei's family usually buys seeds worth three to four thousand yuan at a time, and they are regular customers for many years, the prices are much more favorable than those at ordinary retail stores.

But even so, on average, one seed costs 2 cents, and a nutrition plate requires at least 144 seeds. In addition, there will inevitably be losses during planting, and there will always be excess put in some holes.

, in the end, a nutrition plate costs about 3 yuan for seeds.

A standard nutrition tray is generally 52 cm long and 28 cm wide. A small shed can hold exactly two nutrition trays in one row. Based on the length of the greenhouse being 50 meters, a small shed needs to hold approximately 180 rows of 360 nutritional trays.

Calculated in this way, a small shed requires about 1,000 yuan of seeds. When the entire six-meter-wide greenhouse is used to raise seedlings in nutrient trays, five small sheds can usually be built. Calculated in this way, the entire greenhouse can be planted.

Good pepper seedlings require 1,800 nutrient trays, and the seeds required are 5,000 yuan.

However, if all the seedlings have sprouted, even if the average wholesale price is 20 cents per seedling, a nutrient plate can be sold for 15 yuan.

The entire greenhouse can be sold for nearly 30,000 yuan.

However, after deducting the cost, it is not bad if two greenhouses can earn 30,000 yuan. Not to mention there are still a lot of losses, such as nutrient trays, fertilizers, and a lot of labor required after the seeds are grown. Those are all

It's a lot of cost. Even so, the labor at home has not been taken into account.

"Lao Bang, if you use this plate to plant the seedlings like this, the seedlings will grow well, but it's a bit too troublesome. In the past, it was troublesome to see several people in your family planting the seeds all day long every year. Now you can do it yourself.

Only then did I realize that it was more troublesome than it seemed.”

After Zhou Jingqiang finished placing the chili seeds on a plate, he said to Wu Fei's father: "Look, you have already placed two plates, and I just put one plate. This looks good, but it is a bit too troublesome to make.

."

"Don't worry, it's very slow when you first start doing this. You know how many years I've been doing it, and now it takes four or five minutes to put a plate together. Don't talk about you just starting to do it. I'll wait for you to do it more.

The disk will be faster."

Dad finished putting the seeds on two plates, and Zhou Jingqiang and Wu Dingyun just finished putting the seeds on the first plate.

"Xiao Fei, Er Meng, you two put the plate a little higher and press it a little harder. The pit you are pressing is a little shallow now. When the seedlings grow deeper, they will be easy to fall out. Use a little more force.

Don’t worry about crushing the nutrition plate.”

Dad picked up another nutrient plate with pressed soil and found that the pit in the nutrient plate was a little too deep, so he shouted to Wu Fei and Er Meng.

Just now, Wu Fei and Er Meng stacked two or three nutritional plates on top of each other. They pressed them a little and almost made a hole, but they didn't dare to use force. They were really afraid of accidentally crushing the nutritional plates.

"It's okay to stack more than ten plates at a time. The quality of these plates is pretty good. Just press them down a little more and then cover them with a little more soil."

Speaking of which, using this nutrient tray to raise seedlings is much more troublesome than sowing them directly in the ground before. Like before, you only have to plow the ground well and divide the ridges, and then you can sow the seeds directly.

As soon as the seeds are sown, covered with mulch and small arches, the seedlings are almost ready. Just wait for the seedlings to grow and pay attention to weeding, insecticides and disease control.

Of course, the seedlings grown in this way will be unevenly dense, and the seedlings that grow out will be larger than others. When they are sold, they have to be pulled out one by one, which is very time-consuming.

When it's time to sell rice seedlings, you need to get up at three or four o'clock in the evening when you are busy, and you can only prepare the rice seedlings to be sold that day until dawn.

The seedlings must also be tied up one by one with straw ropes. When tying, the number of seedlings must be counted clearly. A certain number can only be more but not less.

When selling, the money is calculated based on the number of handfuls. When selling, it is impossible for them to count each handful, so they can only sell them one by one.

Most people don't know how to count when they buy, they just look at the approximate number. But there are always some serious people who will count all the pepper seedlings. It's okay to say there are more pepper seedlings, but if there are less, then there are

Said.

Those who can clearly count a handful of pepper seedlings are generally more rational and serious people. Sometimes they can talk to you for a long time about a pepper seedling.

When there are many people in the market, it only lasts for two or three hours. After you have been fighting with people for a long time, the day lilies have become cold and the people going to the market have almost dispersed.

So when it comes to selling pepper seedlings, it’s really a race against time. People follow the herd. When you see a few people buying, more people will come around. At that time, you can only buy them by the handful.
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