Alpine Orchard

Chapter 338 Starting to Raise Seedlings

There are many devices for heating greenhouses.

The industrial fuel oil heater Ye Mo chose is cheap but expensive to use.

However, they need to use heating here, that is, December and January, which are used more in these two months.And November, February... for occasional use.

There is a heater, which is still intelligent, and can adjust the temperature.

During the germination period of watermelon, the most suitable temperature is 15-20 degrees Celsius.

At the seedling stage, 15-25 degrees Celsius is the most suitable.

During the stretching period, the best temperature is 20-25 degrees Celsius.

During the fruiting period, the best temperature is 25-30 degrees Celsius.

As a result, in the later stage, 25-35 degrees Celsius.

These are the optimum temperatures, but they don't have to be.

It's mid-September, and the temperature in Hongshan Town is still very high.The highest temperature during the day is mostly 30 degrees Celsius, or close to 30 degrees Celsius.The lowest temperature at night is 20 degrees Celsius or close to 20 degrees Celsius...

It rained yesterday and the minimum temperature at night was 12 degrees Celsius.It was a bit cold, Ye Mo and Lin Xiaomian slept at night, both covered with quilts.

Everything is ready, it's time to raise seedlings.

The organic soil and leaf ink for raising seedlings have been prepared.

The main components of organic soil are organic fertilizer, wood chips, coconut leaf chips, and a mixture of the three.

Seedling tray, 32-hole seedling tray used by Yemo, with a length of 0.54 meters and a width of 0.28 meters...

A 3-acre greenhouse can hold about 9200 seedling trays after leaving the aisle, which is 29.44 plants.

If all survive, a greenhouse can grow 29.44 seedlings.

The seedlings have been soaked in Lingquan in batches. In the greenhouse, Ye Mo and the others are adding organic soil to the seedling trays. After smoothing, they put the seeds into the seedling trays one by one.

"I thought about it. If I want to ripen more melons, the density should not be too high." Ye Mo said, "On my side, 3200 melons can be planted in one greenhouse. Are you still following the original plan of 1600 melons per mu?"

"With shelves, 1600 plants per mu is not too much." Chen Chen said.

"I'll do as you want. I'll follow you as long as your planting density is," Tang Xun said.

"We are too..." said the two brothers of the Niu family.

"Same." The second uncle said.

Ye Zhi said to Chen Chen: "Follow your brother Chao, and you won't get thrown by knives. Whatever Ye Mo does, we just follow suit."

"En." Chen Chen nodded.

"If you have a shelf, you can plant a lot of melons, and the density should not be too high." Ye Mo said: "In the future, if the watermelon in the greenhouse dies of dead vines, it will be fine to replant them later. There are 1 plants per mu, as long as all the vines can be guaranteed to produce melons." , Once mature, even if the price is 1100 yuan per catty, you can earn about 5 yuan."

"Only 3?" Tang Xun said with a smile, "I'm not convinced... Once you mature, you need at least [-] in the account to be happy."

Ye Zhi laughed: "If I can get 2 yuan in the account, I can laugh secretly. One batch of 17-acre greenhouse is 34 yuan. If we can receive two batches, we will get back our money."

"Brother, you have a vine here, how many watermelons do you keep?" Ye Ran asked.

"My side, one vine and two melons." Ye Mo said: "I don't mind imitating. My side has more people, better equipment, and management is definitely more careful than yours... If you mind, keep one melon. I can keep one." Gua, your work is not in vain."

Tang Xun nodded, looked at Ye Mo, and said with a smile: "You can make several of the lying sweet potatoes and watermelons from a single plant. Now there is a greenhouse, so conservative?"

"It's better to be conservative." Ye Mo said: "I just said two melons per vine, not two melons per plant."

"I go……"

Ye Mo chuckled, and said, "Don't be envious. My side is mainly small melons such as little bees and little golden phoenixes. A watermelon only weighs two or three catties. How many watermelons can be left in a plant? It depends on the specific situation. The watermelons you mainly plant are unicorn watermelons, and each unicorn watermelon is five or six catties, and one vine can preserve one melon, which is pretty good." Ye Mo put the melon plate with the seeds on the push In the car, I pulled a melon plate filled with organic soil, smoothed the organic soil on the melon plate, and continued to sow seeds...

"If I want to keep two watermelons for one melon vine, how should I keep them?" Chen Chen asked.

"Leave a main vine first. When the main vine grows, a side vine will grow on the main vine after about one meter... Choose a side vine that grows the best." Ye Mo taught them experience: "In the future, we will have more vines. Second ripening, the auxiliary vines should not be too close to the roots. Usually, the main vines will grow flowers first, so don’t rush to pollinate at this time, wait until the auxiliary vines bloom and pollinate together. Then pinch the top... Keep two melons, The growth of these two melons is definitely not as good as one melon."

"By the way, we need to keep a few more melons when pollinating. After the watermelons are firmly established, pick the best growing watermelons and keep them..."

When pollinating, keep a few more melons to prevent false fruit sitting.That is to say, the watermelon that is not solid, the watermelon that is not solid, will fall when it grows.

"Grow seedlings now, and they will mature by the end of November?" Chen Chen said.

"more or less."

Today is October 9th.

If all goes well, the grafting will start at the end of the month...the planting will start around the 5th of next month.

For small watermelons, it takes [-] days from flowering to ripening.

Master Liu, Master Li... Zhou Yue and the six of them prepared the black film for the greenhouse, and covered the greenhouse with black film, and there was a creaking sound when stepping on the barbed wire pedal.

"Master Liu, Master Li...you all pay attention to safety and be careful." Ye Mo shouted.Master Liu was standing on top of Ye Mo and the others, that is, on the long beam in the center of the shed... Master Liu and Wang Long were standing on top of the auxiliary shed, and the three were pulling the black film on it.

"I know, it's safe." Master Liu said.

Ye Mo's greenhouse is 25 meters wide, which can be said to be very wide in the greenhouse.In order to facilitate the black film, a wire pedal walkway is installed on the roof of the greenhouse.The bottom of the walkway is the greenhouse film...

The black film is the sunshade net, which is used to reduce the temperature in the greenhouse.

Now for seedling cultivation, the required temperature should not be too high.

The sunshade net customized by Ye Mo has relatively large openings, allowing sunlight to shine in... Moreover, there are electric lights in the greenhouse.

Ye Mo got up and went out to take a look. Ye Mo's parents, third uncle and the others were all outside helping to pull the black membrane.

The greenhouse is too big, which has advantages and disadvantages.

For a 3-acre greenhouse, it is very laborious to pull the black film and lay the greenhouse film.

Nine people pulled the greenhouse film, and it took more than half an hour to complete it.

Ye Mo returned to the greenhouse, pushed out the prepared seedling trays, and placed them neatly.

There are 75 greenhouses on Ye Mo's side, and each greenhouse has 3200 seedlings. A total of 24 seedlings are needed.

Cantaloupe in 40 greenhouses, watermelon in 30 greenhouses, and cantaloupe in 5 greenhouses all have the same planting density.

Seedling cultivation, in addition to cultivating melon seedlings, but also cultivating rootstock seedlings.

So Ye Mo needs 48 seedlings.There is also a problem of survival rate in cultivating seedlings, not all seeds will germinate...

Coupled with Tang Xun's greenhouse over there, cultivating melon seedlings is a big project.

"Something will happen in the future." Ye Mo put the plate back and said, "When the seedlings grow up, I will be annoyed by grafting these seedlings."

"Think about when these greenhouse melons are ripe, and they will earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a day, so I won't be annoyed," Lin Xiaomian said.

"I just said that one plant keeps two melons. I want to try it." Chen Chen said: "I have 24 greenhouses over there, and I will take out 4 greenhouses to try. If I can keep two melons, when the second batch matures, I will There are two melons left over there."

"The first crop and the second crop are different." Ye Mo said to Chen Chen: "During the first crop, the melon vines are very vigorous. It will be different in the second crop."

"The cowardly starve to death and the bold..."

"Well, come on." Ye Mo said with a smile.

　It's raining heavily, flooding the house...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)