After sitting at home for a while, Ye Mo and the others drove to the greenhouse.
Workers are fixing the melon vines.
Now that the melon vine has grown, fix the main vine and select the secondary vines.
Golden Beauty Watermelon, one plant with two vines, one vine and one melon.
There are two small melons, Little Bee and Little Golden Phoenix, with three vines per plant and two melons per vine. The watermelons of these two varieties are small, usually weighing about two pounds each.
For the first crop of melons, there is enough fertilizer in the field, so you can leave more.
Ye Mo also talked to Master Liu and the others about how to keep the vines. I have been busy with wedding matters in the past few days and haven't been to the greenhouse for several days.
Little Bee Watermelon has already planted its first vine and its second vine.
The two auxiliary vines are growing at about the same length. Compared to the main vine, the auxiliary vine is now only about ten centimeters in length. The main vine is already one meter long.
The main vine blooms and sets fruit first, and only after entering the expansion stage can the secondary vine bloom.
A three vines and three melon vines are like tridents, climbing up the shelf.
Ye Mo went into Greenhouse No. 5 and took a look around. The temperature inside was 25 degrees Celsius, which was very good. The melons and vines were also growing very well...
The soil is somewhat dry.
"Master Liu." Ye Mo shouted.
"Hey." Master Liu came over.
"The soil in the greenhouse is a little dry, so it needs to be soaked in water tonight." Ye Mo said, "Use water from water tower No. 3, don't mix it up."
"Okay." Master Liu nodded: "We will arrange watering after four o'clock in the afternoon."
"Yes." Ye Mo nodded and said, "Trace element fertilizers have been prepared in the No. 3 water tower. Just water it directly."
Trace element fertilizers help vines grow. There is also a spiritual spring in the No. 3 water tower...
The melon vines in the greenhouse are growing particularly well, and the leaves are green, as if they are about to emit oil.
Then we walked around the greenhouse next door and came to the seedling greenhouse.
Lin Xiaomian was chatting with her second aunt inside...
"Second Aunt." Ye Mo walked in and shouted.
"Hey." The second aunt responded with a smile.
Ye Mo winked at Lin Xiaomian, Lin Xiaomian nodded, and she and Ye Mo left the greenhouse and returned to the car.
It's almost noon.
The temperature is not particularly hot now. Workers come out after seven in the morning. When there is a lot of work, they have to work until twelve o'clock... They go out after one in the afternoon and don't get off work until almost dark.
The work in the greenhouse has been straightened out.
In addition to greenhouses, workers also have to take care of coconut groves and durian trees... In autumn, these trees need to be fertilized.
Just apply some compound fertilizer, not organic fertilizer.
There is not much left of the organic fertilizer I bought before.
After you harvest the first batch of melons and you have money, you can order organic fertilizer.
Arriving at Huazhi Mountain, there are two public warehouses past the village committee, where fertilizers are being unloaded.
"Will the orchards here need to be fertilized heavily this year?" Lin Xiaomian said.
"Probably." Ye Mo said: "The soil here is not fertile enough. The main reason is that the organic matter content in the soil is low... I will give it heavy fertilizer for another year, and then it will slowly grow."
My parents had already prepared lunch and were about to call Ye Mo when they saw Ye Mo's car driving over.
"dad."
"Dad..." Ye Mo and Lin Xiaomian shouted.
Dad smiled and nodded: "I was just about to call you and come in for dinner soon."
Go into the house...
"Brother, sister-in-law." Ye Ran and Chen Chen shouted.
Ye Mo and the others also nodded.
The food has been set.
Mom gave Ye Mo and the others a bowl of papaya, white fungus, and red date soup...
The soup is very beautiful, with just the right consistency and just the right sweetness.
Watching Ye Mo finish off a bowl, his mother rolled her eyes at Ye Mo, took out a spoon and handed it to Lin Xiaomian: "I've stewed a big pot of Tremella fungus. You can take some back to eat after dinner."
"Yeah." Lin Xiaomian pursed her lips and smiled and nodded: "Thank you, Mom."
My mother was so happy that the wrinkles on her face were all smiles.
"I think I heard someone say before that the production team has an orchard to be transferred." Ye Mo filled another bowl of papaya and white fungus, looked at his father and said.
"The Zhu family owns 270 acres of pomegranates, and the Zheng family owns 190 acres of pomegranates." Dad said, "There are 5 pomegranate orchards to be transferred, and a mango orchard is also planned to be transferred."
"They are willing to transfer such a profitable orchard?" Chen Chen said.
"The transfer price is high." Dad Ye smiled and shrugged. Besides, judging from the current situation, the orchard here is not really profitable.
Take Tang Xun's 130-acre pomegranate orchard, for example. It was sold for 1.1 million yuan this year. But after excluding fertilizers, labor and various costs, the remaining amount is less than 500,000 yuan. This does not include hardware investment...
Fruit prices are good this year.
But next year, the year after that... As long as the mangoes in Huacheng are of high quality, you don't have to worry about selling them, and the price will be high.
But the orchards here on Huazhi Mountain are still far from being of high quality.
This year, the quality of the mangoes here in the entire Huacheng area can only be considered average. The quality of the pomegranates can only be considered average...
It takes a long time and long-term investment to raise an orchard and maintain it well.
"You want to buy an orchard?" Mom said.
"My father-in-law said that it is not good to live in Gaoshanping all the time, and they want to go back to their hometown. What I want is for everyone to live closer... When my greenhouse over there is productive and I have money, I can buy one nearby for my father-in-law and others.
Orchard, everyone lives closer." Ye Mo said.
"Yeah." Father Ye nodded: "We'll talk about it later when you have money. Then I'll go ask for you."
"The orchards here are very expensive, and I don't think it's a good deal." My mother said, "The orchard transferred by the Zhu family, together with their villa, I heard before was asking for 17 million yuan."
"The Zhu family, is their house in the valley straight ahead from the intersection, a white-walled courtyard house?"
Father Ye nodded: "The house has been renovated, but it is undecorated and no one has lived in it. If you have enough money, you can buy the Zhu family's and Zheng's orchards together. The two orchards are next to each other..."
"Let's look at the harvest in the greenhouse." Ye Mo said.
"Brother." Chen Chen looked at Ye Mo and said, "I still have a lot of melon seedlings over there that haven't recovered, what should I do?"
"How do I know... how many there are?"
"Total, four to five thousand." Chen Chen said.
"I don't know. Wait for a while and see. If it doesn't get better, you can buy some seeds and raise the seedlings yourself." Ye Mo said, "I don't have any extra seeds on hand."
"I'm a little annoyed." Ye Ran looked at Chen Chen and said, "You should use your brain more when doing things. Just copy the homework and you will make mistakes. I am very convinced."
“Isn’t that what I was thinking about saving trouble at first?” Laying the mulch first and then planting the melon seedlings can indeed save a lot of trouble.
And when planting melon seedlings, mulch is usually spread first and then planted...
"Let's wait for a while and see. As long as those melon seedlings are not dead, they should be able to recover." Ye Mo said: "It is the end of autumn now, so we need to pay attention to the temperature in the greenhouse. I have turned on the heating in the past few nights.
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"Turn on the heating so early?"
"The temperature is getting colder at night. You are also ready over there... and Tang Xun is planning to live in the greenhouse at night. It is not easy to manage the greenhouse in late autumn and winter, so you have to be careful." Ye Mo
Looking at him: "Don't let your investment of hundreds of thousands go to waste."