Alpine Orchard

Chapter 378 Watermelon Quality Grading
Steaming in the sauna.

Li Xuebin added two more scoops of water to the stove. Zhang Wenyuan, who was in the sauna for the first time, couldn't take it anymore. He went out to take a cold shower, then took a hot bath, and went to lie down in the bathtub for a massage: This villa is luxurious. .

Zhang Wenyuan lay relaxed in the spa bathtub, spread his hands, and felt that the most enjoyable thing was nothing more than this.

'After buying a villa, we will also install a sauna and a similar spa bathtub. "Zhang Wenyuan still has some resistance to his wife's idea of ​​buying a villa. Now...he also wants a villa, which has a sauna room and a jacuzzi.

It's been a while in the sauna...it's really comfortable.

After a while, Ye Mo and the others also came out.

Ye Mo went to the cold water pool, poured a ladle of cold water and poured it directly on his body: "Hey~" Ye Mo shouted: "It's comfortable."

"Is it okay to soak in a cold pool?" Li Xuebin said.

"Yes." Ye Mo said.

Li Xuebin went up the steps, tentatively went down into the cold pool, and also shouted: "It's cool."

Zhou Minghai laughed, came to Ye Mo's side and poured cold water to rinse his body.

Waiting for his body to cool down, Ye Mo shouted: "Boss Zhang, steam for a while."

"You guys made the temperature too high. In the sauna room, I'm about to be steamed." Zhang Wenyuan came out of the bathtub, picked up a melon ladle, poured cold water to irrigate his body.

"You can control the temperature." Li Xuebin came out of the pool and dragged Zhang Wenyuan into the sauna room.

Ye Mo wetted the washcloth and covered his face.

After they steamed for a while, Ye Mo took the water to rinse the room, adjusted the boiler to the drying mode, and then turned on the disinfecting light, and they went out of the sauna room.

After changing his clothes, Ye Mo hung the facecloth outside to dry, and said, "It's so comfortable to take a sauna."

"Enjoy." Li Xuebin laughed and said, "How much did you spend on this sauna room?"

"There are two sauna rooms, one for men and one for women, and the total cost... seems to be 10,000+." Ye Mo said.

"You are too extravagant." Zhang Wenyuan said with a smile.

"When I was renovating the villa over there, I also set up a sauna room." Li Xuebin twisted his waist and stretched again: "It's really comfortable to come out of the sauna, and the whole person feels a lot more relaxed."

Back in the living room, Ye Mo brought two bottles of mineral water for each of them: "It's easy to get thirsty after going to the sauna, so bring two more bottles of water."

Zhang Wenyuan took the mineral water: "Thank you."

"We have them in the car." Li Xuebin and the others each took a bottle and said, "How long will it take for the watermelons on the gravel slope to ripen?"

"About a week." Ye Mo said, "Go over and have a look, and set an approximate price."

"Yeah." Li Xuebin nodded: "Go and have a look."

Going downstairs, Ye Mo sent Zhang Wenyuan to the side of the reservoir, and got into Li Xuebin's car to the gravel slope.

Arriving at Madam Xiaomian's greenhouse, Ye Mo saw Uncle Xiaomian alone in the shed, and walked over: "Uncle Xiao, what are you up to?"

"Check the situation of the second batch of melons." Uncle Xiao Mian said: "Boss Li, Boss Zhou..."

Li Xuebin and the others nodded and said, "Let's come over and have a look at the watermelons here, and give us a price."

"Hey." Niu Youde said with a smile: "The watermelon here should be pretty good."

Niu Youde's watermelons are all one plant, one vine, one melon.There are no two melons...

The greenhouse can be built here, thanks to the batch of big watermelons in summer, but even so... It also emptied the family.

Niu Youde thought of the safest and safest way...

The watermelons here are not yet ripe, and now I can only look at the shape of the melons.

"The shape of the melon is not bad." Li Xuebin and the others watched carefully.

The shape of the melon is round, in line with the shape that a unicorn watermelon should have, and the color is not bad, but it is the color of an ordinary unicorn watermelon...the surface is smooth...

"In terms of appearance, except for a few... In terms of appearance, except for a very few, it has reached the standard of super-grade melons." Li Xuebin nodded.

Watermelon sensory index grading, special grade, first grade, second...

In some places, there is no super-grade classification, just first-level, second-level, third-level...

"Let's come over and take a look when picking. If it reaches the special grade, it costs 8.5 yuan per catty. For the first grade, it costs 6 yuan." Li Xuebin said: "The watermelon seeds are all black and full, and there is an extra yuan."

"Hey... okay." Niu Yougui nodded vigorously.

Niu Yougui's eyes were shining.

At this price, the melons in more than a dozen greenhouses are sold out, so I want to make a fortune.

"Extra-grade and first-grade, besides appearance, what are the indicators?" Niu Youde asked.

"First ask, after we brought people over for testing, has your greenhouse been sprayed with pesticides?" Zhou Haiming said.

"I haven't applied pesticides. But I have sprayed foliar fertilizer once... Ye Mo bought the foliar fertilizer with help." Niu Youde said.

"That's all right." Zhou Minghai said: "We have to test these watermelons when we send them to the market. In addition, the watermelons cannot be watered for 7 days before they are picked. According to Ye Mo, the watermelons on your side only last for a week. It's time for picking. If you need watering, you can water it today or tomorrow, and you won't be able to water it later."

"Okay, I know." Niu Yougui was a little excited.

Ye Mo said with a smile: "The thickness of the watermelon skin of super-grade melons and Kirin melons should not exceed 1.2 cm. The watermelon skin should be as thin as possible...First-class melons should not be larger than 1.3 cm. The soluble solids in the center of watermelons should be greater than 11 cm. , one level is greater than 10."

"Soluble what? What's that?"

"Soluble solids... Probably, it represents its sugar content. 11, which means the sweetness is 11..."

Ye Mo explained to Niu Youde that when the soluble solid content of melon fruit exceeds 10% (generally called 10 degrees), the taste is sweeter and the quality basically meets the requirements.If the soluble solid content exceeds 12% (sweetness 12 degrees), it is a high-quality watermelon.

Of course, there are still many standards for measuring super-grade watermelon, such as the fineness of the melon flesh, the amount of water... these indicators affect the taste.

It is very difficult to reach the super-grade watermelon with all indicators.

There was no one in the shed at Niu Yougui's side, so Niu Youde quickly called.The group of them finished watching Niu Youde's shed, and then went to Niu Yougui's side.

Cows have expensive greenhouses, but watermelons are not well managed.

Perfectly shaped watermelons account for only one-third of the total.The remaining watermelons have defects on the surface of the rind, but the defects are very small... It depends on the appearance, there are special-grade melons, and there are first-class melons.There are also some melons with obvious defects in appearance...

"Aren't these melons managed together?" Li Xuebin said, "Why is there such a difference?"

Ye Mo shrugged.

Niu Youde looked outside the shed from time to time and saw Niu Youde appearing: "Hurry up." Niu Youde shouted, then turned around and said: "These melons are not bad."

Li Xuebin picked up the net pocket, held the watermelon in his palm, and pointed out some obvious defects: "The stripes of this watermelon, the background color and the stripes are different. And here..." Li Xuebin pointed to the bottom of the watermelon: "It's a little white. The skin color of the watermelons in the entire greenhouse is lighter than that of your watermelons."

"Brother." Niu Yougui finally came over.

"I'm talking about your watermelons." Niu Youde said.

"How about my watermelons?" Niu Yougui smiled.

"Comparatively average." Li Xuebin said mercilessly.

"It's better than ordinary greenhouses, and it's worse than good ones," Zhou Minghai said.

Niu Yougui scratched his head and said, "Then how much can I sell these watermelons per catty?"

"Extra-grade 8.5 yuan, first-grade 6 yuan, if they are all black seeds, add another [-] yuan." Li Xuebin and the others looked again: "As for the worse ones, we will see the price when they mature."

Checked all the greenhouses.

Niu Youde's big shed is very good.

Niu Yougui's side is much worse.

Li Xuebin went back to the car and took out a few albums, which were the watermelon quality grading regulations, as well as pictures for reference.

"You can refer to these albums. Boss Li and I will go to Tang Xun's greenhouse to have a look." Ye Mo said.

"Hey." Niu Youde nodded.

(End of this chapter)