The workers also got up early, had breakfast, and came to the greenhouse area to start a new day's work.
"Master Zhang, Master Song...Dad, come here." Ye Mo shouted.
Lin Shan and the others came over: "What are you doing?"
"Help lift the watermelon." Ye Mo said, "Pick the watermelon and see if it's ripe."
"Let's go."
When they came to the melon field, Ye Mo picked the smallest one and carried the watermelon onto the stretcher.
There is a stretcher made of sacks, specially designed to carry watermelons.
These watermelons were too big, mostly weighing more than 200 kilograms. Ye Mo picked the smallest one and went to the warehouse to weigh it, which was 183 kilograms.
It is difficult for two people to lift such a large watermelon. The watermelon needs to be put on a stretcher or placed in a basket before it can be carried away.
The watermelon is large and has a very thick rind. You can only tell whether the watermelon is ripe from the vines on the stem. As for knocking these watermelons, it is difficult to tell.
Judging from the vines, these watermelons should be ripe.
Ye Mo took out his mobile phone to record a video, and his father-in-law took a watermelon knife and cut the watermelon in half.
The flesh of the melon is red and the ripeness is 70% to 80%, which is considered to be just right.
But this watermelon is relatively 'small'. Those watermelons weighing more than 200 kilograms are not necessarily the same.
Ye Mo sent the video to Li Xuebin and typed: "These watermelons will be picked the day after tomorrow."
"The big watermelon is in the warehouse. When everyone is thirsty, come over and eat the watermelon." Lin Shan went over to work and said loudly.
"I want it." Zhou Yue, who was on the roof of the greenhouse, heard it and responded loudly with a smile.
Ye Mo then left and called Lin Xiaomian: "Are you up?"
"I'm up and eating."
Ye Mo then called his father and asked him if there was anything... and asked him to come over and help.
When she got home, Lin Xiaomian was washing the dishes and chopsticks. After washing the dishes, they went to the durian garden together.
I don’t know how to judge the maturity of durians on other trees. The durians here have a strong smell, smell... Wherever there is a durian smell, go over and try them one by one. The durians that can be twisted off are mature. The durians that cannot be twisted off are
, it is not mature yet.
Ganyao durian, even when ripe, still has green skin.
"Husband... there is a fallen durian here." Lin Xiaomian saw a durian on the ground and ran over with a smile. She looked at Ye Mo and said, "I'll eat it."
Ye Mo couldn't help scratching his head: "Eat it."
I didn’t do much work, so I was thinking about eating first.
"Let me use your knife."
Ye Mo threw the key chain away, Lin Xiaomian picked it up, put a knife on the key chain... and opened the durian.
As soon as he opened the durian, Ye Ran came over: "Sister-in-law."
"Come and eat durian." Lin Xiaomian shouted: "I dropped this one myself, it's very fragrant."
"I can smell it." Ye Ran trotted over.
"Dad, Mom." Ye Mo shouted.
The two of them said "Hmm". Mother Ye walked towards Lin Xiaomian...
Dad came over to Ye Mo: "How can you tell whether a durian is ripe or not?"
"Smell it..." Ye Mo said.
"Smell?" Dad had a big head.
Ye Mo was also helpless. He didn't know how to judge whether he was mature or not.
They are both green leather and look similar in appearance.
Ye Mo's phone rang: "Boss Wei?"
"Yesterday I picked a few durians from your place that had no smell yet. After I brought them back one night, the smell came out." Boss Wei said, "Such durians are almost as mature as those on trees."
"There's no smell?" Ye Mo said, "I don't quite understand."
"It's a nine-ripe durian." Boss Wei said.
"How to tell when someone is mature?" Ye Mo asked.
"The durians that fall naturally are fully ripe, which is ten ripe. The durians that are nine ripe are almost ready to fall." Boss Wei said: "Fully ripe durians usually fall naturally at night. The durians you have over there,
If there is a smell, it should be about 90% ripe. If you don't pick it, it will naturally fall off at night. It should be about 90% ripe. You can't smell it outside, but you can eat it after opening it, and the smell inside is relatively strong."
"How to tell?"
I really don’t know how to tell whether a durian is ripe or not.
Even if these durians fall off naturally, their peels will still be green, similar to the color of durians on the trees.
Just now, Lin Xiaomian picked up a durian that fell naturally on the ground and ate it. The peel was green.
"Use your thumb and index finger to pinch the two adjacent thorns of the durian skin." Boss Wei said: "If you can pinch it, it is ripe, almost 90% ripe. If you can't pinch it, it is not yet ripe. Find a few varieties.
Pinch the different durians and open them to take a look."
"Okay, let me try..."
According to Boss Wei's instructions, Ye Mo started to pinch the durian thorns. He pinched the thorns and pushed in...
The durian peel was very hard, so Ye Mo pinched six or seven of them in succession, and finally one of them could be moved. This durian had no smell... The stem was also very strong, so Ye Mo cut off the stem with a knife and opened it.
It's not that you can't smell the smell, but it's far away and you can't smell the smell. When you put your nose against the durian, there is still a relatively strong smell of durian.
The moment the durian was opened, the smell came out. Moreover, the smell was very strong. Ye Mo smelled it a bit pungent... There was an obvious smell similar to metal rust.
"Lin Xiaomian, Ye Ran... there is also a ripe durian here." Ye Mo brought the opened durian to Lin Xiaomian and the others.
Ye Mo's mother also likes to eat durians. The durian she just picked up fell naturally. After opening it, there were only two rooms of large meat and one room of small meat, which was not enough to eat.
The durian opened by Ye Mo is even worse, with one room of big meat and two rooms of small meat.
Maybe it’s because of the large number of fruits in the first year, but the quality of these durians this year is particularly poor.
Waiting for Lin Xiaomian and others to eat durian.
Ye Mo told them how to tell whether a durian is ripe or immature...
"Pinch them one by one?" Lin Xiaomian's eyes widened.
"Yeah." Ye Mo nodded.
"It's so troublesome... Otherwise, we can wait for these durians to fall off the trees when they mature, and we can just come and pick them up in the morning." Lin Xiaomian said: "It is said on the Internet that durians usually mature and fall at night. They will not fall during the day...
Let’s get up early later. The durian trees here are not high and won’t be damaged if they fall.”
"Uh... let me ask Boss Wei." Ye Mo said.
"Just ask. It's too troublesome to pinch one by one or look for them by smell. We are not dogs..."
Ye Mo looked at Lin Xiaomian and was speechless. He called Boss Wei: "Hey, Boss Wei... it's too troublesome to find durians one by one. The durian trees here are not high, so these durians will naturally fall and not be damaged.
...Well, we want to wait for these durians to fall naturally. Durians all fall at night, right? You don't know? Then let me observe here... If they fall at night, we will go out to pick them up at dawn.