Back to Gaoshanping, it was past one in the afternoon.
The workers have already started working...
The cantaloupe picked today is less than half of yesterday's. The cantaloupe labeled No. 2 has been picked and is being loaded into the truck.
Now that the weather is getting cooler, Ye Mo doesn't even bother to take a nap when he's busy.
Lin Xiaomian drove the car home, and Ye Mo came to the greenhouse, drank some tea, and helped load the car together. They worked until after six o'clock in the afternoon before loading the car was completed.
In the next few days, the main task every day was to pick cantaloupe.
8 days for pollination…
Counting from the first day of picking, it only took 6 days to finish picking the cantaloupe.
The price per kilogram is 20 yuan, and 1 ton is 40,000 yuan.
40 greenhouses picked a total of 503.12 tons, which is 20.1248 million yuan.
Excluding the car that Li Xuebin and the others gave Ye Mo, the output value of cantaloupe is not as good as that of watermelon.
Even including that car, based on the output value per mu, it is not as good as a watermelon.
Today is the 24th. On the 22nd, some watermelon flowers bloomed in the greenhouse. The number was small...
Watermelon flowers can only be pollinated in the morning, and the best pollination time is only two or three hours. The flowers bloom less in the first two days, so just take more than an hour, two hours every day... that's all.
After the cantaloupes are picked, the watermelons begin to bloom in large numbers. This is the perfect time.
Pollinate the watermelon in the morning and pinch the head at the same time.
This is the second crop of melons. Pinch off the tops... that is, pinch off the top buds of the vines. This can reduce nutrient consumption and increase the chance of pollination.
Ye Mo's second-crop melons are considered real second-crop melons. Under normal circumstances, second-crop melons are not easy to get rid of.
"I'm busy." After eight o'clock, Tang Xun rode his bicycle to Gaoshanping and found Ye Mo in the greenhouse.
"Yes." Ye Mo nodded: "Are the second-crop melons over there sold out?"
"We won't start picking until tomorrow," Tang Xun said.
"Has it been rated yet?"
"First level." Tang Xun said.
"What went wrong?"
"The size of watermelon is not uniform, the thickness of the rind, the sweetness..." Tang Xun shrugged: "It's pretty good if it reaches the first level."
"How much does it cost per pound?"
"Six yuan and five cents." Tang Xun chuckled.
Although it is not as expensive as a first-crop melon, this second-crop melon costs 6.5 yuan per catty, which is still very profitable.
As soon as the melons are harvested, he recovers the cost, all the costs.
In terms of the management of the second crop of melons, the main costs are fuel and electricity.
Heating a greenhouse costs a lot of money a month.
But in total, the price of the second crop of melons reaches 1.4 yuan, and the extra money is profit.
The second crop of melons is managed by their entire family without hiring anyone. At 6.5 yuan per catty, they can make a lot of money.
"Ye Zhi, where are Chen Chen's watermelons?"
"Ye Zhi, Uncle Niu and the others, 4.8 yuan. The watermelons at Chen Chen's place are not managed well. 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?"
"This season, a watermelon worth 3 yuan... is a very ordinary watermelon," Ye Mo said.
"Chen Chen and his family don't have enough staff, and they can't hire people all the time. The greenhouse management progress has been piled up and done together..." Tang Xun said.
Ye Zhi called his father-in-law and mother-in-law over to help manage the greenhouse. There are 5 laborers in the greenhouse, and the 17-acre greenhouse... is still very easy to manage.
There were only three of them, Chen Chen.
Although Ye Mo's parents occasionally went to help, it was only occasionally.
If greenhouse watermelons are to achieve results, they must be managed meticulously.
Chen Chen's father's health is not good yet, and their family has the largest number of greenhouses, so it is normal that they cannot manage them well.
"It costs 3 yuan per catty, so it's not a loss." Ye Mo said, "It's good that it's not a loss."
"Chen Chen's place paid 3 yuan per pound, so he probably didn't lose money, but he probably didn't make money either. His greenhouse was wrong from the beginning. 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.
Watermelon requires different temperatures at different growth stages.
The optimal temperatures required for the vine growth stage, melon setting stage, watermelon expansion stage, and maturity stage are all different. The only thing that matters is if the seedlings added later can be managed well.
"How many pollinations do you have on one vine?" Tang Xun asked.
"All female flowers are pollinated," Ye Mo said.
"all?"
"Cast the net widely." Ye Mo smiled and said: "This is the second crop of melons from the new vine. The melon setting rate should not be high. How many female flowers are there and how many are pollinated... Then we will cut off the crooked melons and the poor growth ones.
melon."
Golden beauty, just one vine and one melon will be enough.
Little Bee and Little Golden Phoenix, two per vine or one vine. These two varieties are small melons after all, and the size of the watermelon is not high...it is enough if they can weigh more than two kilograms.
"The second crop of melons I have over there should be able to sell for about 500,000 yuan." Tang Xun said: "And there are also new vines left, 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 a lot of things to do in the greenhouse. But it only takes about half a year of hard work... I can make a million in about half a year, which is pretty good."
"Too worried."
"You didn't have to worry about making cakes before." Ye Mo said.
"It's different now than before. I couldn't do it before... Now I still have 130 acres of pomegranates at home."
"So, are you really planning to change hands on your greenhouse?"
Tang Xun said "Hmm" and said: "17 acres of greenhouses, site construction... I spent about 700,000 yuan."
Greenhouse steel frame, warehouse, land contracting, pit digging, etc.
700,000 yuan should be included in the human investment.
“A little pricey.”
"If you want it, 500,000 yuan." Tang Xun said, "I will transfer it to you after I finish harvesting this year's watermelons."
"I don't want it...my dad wants my two uncles to come over and plant watermelons." Ye Mo said, "They cut bamboo every day in their hometown. It's a lot of hard work and they don't make much money...
Is your greenhouse really worth 500,000 yuan?"
"If I transfer 500,000 yuan, I won't lose. After all, Xigua has made money here." Tang Xun said with a smile: "To be honest, the cost of our greenhouse over there is already high. 700,000 yuan, who wants it?
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"How about you plant for another two years?" Ye Mo said, "If you don't want to plant in greenhouses anymore, what do you want to do?"
"I haven't thought about it... I just want to take a good rest after the next season in my greenhouse. In fact, as you said, it would be good if our family can manage the pomegranate garden well."
"It's up to you. If you really don't want to plant in greenhouses, I'll do it next." Ye Mo said, "If you still want to continue planting, then go ahead."
Tang Xun nodded: "I just suddenly feel that I am getting older and a little unable to do what I do."
"When you are in your early thirties, your health is no longer good...hehehehe..."
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