I was busy with other things in Gaoshanping for two days...
Level the feed feeding point in the reservoir and plant grass in the over-pruned orchard.
The melons in the melon field have ushered in another batch of ripe fruits.
The weather is hot and fruits ripen quickly.
Ye Mo got up early in the morning and first went to take a look at the super-large watermelon in the greenhouse. This large watermelon stopped growing at the beginning of the month and is now mature.
Ye Mo dialed Zhang Yuanqiao's phone: "Hello, Boss Zhang."
"ah?"
"The watermelons are ripe. Come and pick them whenever you have time." Ye Mo said.
"I'll go pretend later."
"Waiting for you. I'm picking cantaloupe here. Come over and eat cantaloupe."
"OK."
There are 80 large watermelons in the greenhouse, 20 of which have not been grafted and are still growing very well... Looking at the size of the watermelons, they are basically around 200 kilograms.
For the remaining watermelons, 40 were grafted with gourds, 10 with winter melons, and 10 with pumpkins...
The vines grafted with winter melon grew the largest. Some of them were estimated to be close to 300 kilograms. They looked very big, but the shape of watermelons was not as beautiful as those grafted with gourd melons.
The ones grafted from pumpkins are rounder, and although they are also very big, they are not as beautiful as those grafted from gourds.
The most beautiful melon shapes are those 20 ungrafted watermelons. The grafted gourd melons are also very beautiful.
If this variety is planted in large quantities in the future, there is no need to graft it. Just plant the watermelon seeds directly in the field. Judging from the growth, it is also very good. Without grafting, it can save a lot of work. It is suitable for large-area planting...
Gao Yuan and Li Xuebin were notified yesterday.
Gao Yuan came here early in the morning. When he saw Ye Mo at the greenhouse, he walked over and said, "The big watermelon is very beautiful."
"Yeah." Ye Mo nodded with a smile and took the cigarette handed by Gao Yuan.
"Have you ever considered planting these watermelons on a large scale?" Gao Yuan said.
"Yes. Next year, it depends on the situation... we will plant dozens of acres of large watermelons. But if the area is large, the watermelons will definitely not grow so big. These watermelons are specially cultivated..."
"It would be good if each weighs forty or fifty kilograms," Gao Yuan said.
Ye Mo shrugged and said: "Leave some seeds of the watermelon here and plant them for the villagers down the mountain next year. Then you have to help sell them."
"no problem."
Ye Mo's father and the others are here.
Ye Mo told Gao Yuan about the development of ecological agriculture in Hongshan Town and about the cantaloupe label...
The cart of cantaloupe Gao Yuan sent out yesterday did not have any labels on it: "It's just labels, just put them on."
Li Xuebin also came over and brought many labels.
The three most eye-catching characters in the middle of the label are 'Hongshan Town', and behind the big red characters is 'Gaoshanping Orchard'. There is also a row of small characters at the top, which is Yancheng County, Huacheng City... The introduction of the product is placed at the bottom.
'Emerald Melon'.
The contact number is the customer service number of Li Xuebin and his company.
There are two kinds of labels. The other label is for Gao Yuan. The contact number on it is the phone number of Gao Yuan and his company.
Regarding labels, Li Xuebin also asked Gao Yuan and Ye Mo.
Ye Mo doesn't have customer service here, and it's not easy to put his personal phone number on it.
There were a lot of ripe cantaloupes today, and baskets of them were shipped out.
Li Xuebin and the others were helping to put labels on the pergola. After nine o'clock... Chen Shan came over, as well as the mayor of their town, senior officials of the town, and Wang Hong, director of the Rural Revitalization Office.
Everyone is curious about what a cantaloupe, which sells for tens of yuan per catty, looks like.
Before entering the pergola, the group smelled the unique sweet smell of cantaloupe.
The smell is not strong, but it is very clear, making people feel particularly comfortable. The sweet smell of cantaloupe also attracts bees, flying around the melon shed...
"Brother Chen, Mayor Zhao." Li Xuebin shouted.
"Hey..." Zhao Hai said with a smile: "We started picking so early."
"Only the early bird gets the worms. If I come here late, these melons will be taken away by Boss Gao." Li Xuebin introduced them to them with a smile: "This is Boss Gao. Boss Gao... this
Those are Mayor Zhao, and Chen Shan, the deputy village chief of Changzhu Village, who is also my big brother."
"Hello, Mayor Zhao, hello, Brother Chen." Gao Yuan stood up and handed cigarettes to several people.
"Let me introduce to you, this is Lao Luo, Luo Chengwen, our senior official in Hongshan Town."
"Hello, Secretary Luo..."
"Ye Mo." Li Xuebin shouted with a smile and said, "Secretary Luo is here. Come over quickly and let Secretary Luo give you some guidance on your work."
"I know how to guide you, so I just came here to visit." Luo Chengwen was a little speechless.
Zhao Hai laughed and said, "Boss Li likes to joke."
"Just kidding..." Li Xuebin said.
"Don't joke around every day." Chen Shan said: "There are so many people here, and you are shouting here."
"Sorry sorry..."
"I dare not talk about guidance work." Secretary Luo also laughed: "How much output value can such a large watermelon field, cantaloupe field... have?"
"Production value, final production value?"
“Only the income of melon farmers?”
Ye Mo walked over and heard Li Xuebin say: "Boss Ye is not a serious melon farmer. The watermelons and cantaloupes he produces... together, the output value is estimated to be several million." Li Xuebin said with a laugh,
It was not convenient for him to answer these questions.
"Why am I not a serious melon farmer?" Ye Mo rolled his eyes at Li Xuebin.
"Serious and serious..."
Ye Mo opened some cantaloupes and gave them to everyone to taste.
These melons are so sweet and fragrant.
The pulp is half crispy and half soft, waxy and tender, and the saccharide inside the pulp has a rich aroma.
I heard them say that the cantaloupe here can be sold for tens of yuan per catty, but they didn't believe it, but after tasting it, they didn't feel that the price was an exaggeration.
"Are these melons ordinary varieties?" Secretary Luo asked.
"It's the best variety I bought," Ye Mo said.
"If other farmers were to plant it, would it be of such good quality?"
"Well, it's hard to say." Ye Mo thought for a while and said: "The management of these cantaloupes is particularly troublesome. If you are an ordinary farmer, I suggest that it is better to plant watermelons. Planting watermelons is relatively simple, and... the yield of watermelons is higher.
.Cantaloupes, unless they are particularly well grown, are relatively average in price, not much more expensive than watermelons. Growing watermelons and cantaloupes is quite troublesome..."
"There is no work in the fields that is not troublesome." Secretary Luo said.
Chen Shan said to Ye Mo: "Our production team has a lot of abandoned land. Later, I want to sort out the abandoned land and try to plant a batch of watermelons or cantaloupes next year... You can give me some guidance then."
Ye Mo nodded: "No problem. I'm still trying to save seeds myself. I gave some of last year's big watermelon seeds to Sister Xiaomian. I'll wait and see when those watermelons come out. If the yield is good, I can provide it next year."
Some watermelon seeds."
"Yes." Chen Shan said with a smile: "Our village can be used as a pilot project. Once we have experience, we can promote it."
Ye Mo does not recommend planting cantaloupe because Ye Mo does not have cantaloupe seeds on hand.
These emerald melons are hybrid varieties. Many melons have bloomed before. The seeds inside the melon pulp...are mostly empty seeds and tender seeds. Although some seeds can be taken out, they are hybrid melons after all...
Saving seeds for hybrid melon? This seems to be no different from saving seeds for hybrid rice...
If you save hybrid rice seeds, the results will be uneven the second year you plant them.
Ye Mo is not a major in agriculture and does not understand genetics. But he also knows that the seeds left behind by hybrid varieties are not good.