Chapter 176 With Sweat [Fifth update, please subscribe]
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19 people, responsible for about 200 acres of melons and vines.
Ye Mo bought two boxes of bees from outside, placed them on the edge of the hillside, and built a shed for the bees.
After pruning the vines, it's March.
The watermelons in the fields are blooming one after another.
With bees helping with pollination, Ye Mo and the others could finally rest for a few days. But it wasn't a complete rest, it could only be said to be a relaxing period of time.
The watermelons in the greenhouse are expanding at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye. The watermelons in the greenhouse are watered by Ye Mo once a week with the spiritual spring...the roots of the watermelon are super developed.
Ye Mo checks these watermelons every day.
The expansion period of watermelon starts from the time of fruit setting. For small watermelons, the expansion period is only 20 days, and it enters the maturity stage after 20 days...
Different watermelon varieties and different managements have different expansion periods. For large melons, the expansion period can exceed 40 days or more than 45 days.
Ye Mo moved the scale into the greenhouse, and he and Tang Xun lifted a large melon and weighed it.
"Niubi, my boss." Tang Xun looked at the weight, which was 111 pounds, and gave Ye Mo a thumbs up: "Can these watermelons continue to grow?"
"It will definitely work." Ye Mo said: "These are large melons, and the expansion period is about fifty days, or even longer."
With the spiritual spring watered all the time, the expansion period of these watermelons can last for a long time.
Last year's big watermelon, the expansion period lasted for two months, and then it was completely finalized.
Usually, the bigger the watermelon, the worse the taste. The smaller watermelon, the better... Think about those watermelons weighing more than 200 kilograms. Under normal circumstances, it usually does not exceed 50 days from fruit setting to final shape (introduction to enlargement).
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The watermelon expands, but the flesh inside will also grow rapidly. If it doesn't grow fast enough, the inside will be hollow. But if it grows too fast, the cells and fibers of the flesh will become thick, affecting the taste.
But Ye Mo's big watermelon is big in size and tastes good. It can grow to more than 200 kilograms, which is entirely due to the long growth time.
Ye Mo took out his mobile phone, set up a selfie stick, took a video and sent it to Zhang Yuanqiao, and then made a video call: "Mr. Zhang, these watermelons weigh more than a hundred kilograms." These melons are not mature yet...if they are mature,
, the same size, but still a lot heavier.
"It seems that if it grows to two hundred pounds, it won't be a big problem." Zhang Yuanqiao said.
"It shouldn't be a big problem. How do you like the watermelon over there?" Ye Mo said.
"It's not as big as yours." Zhang Yuanqiao said, "What did you use for those watermelons to make them grow so big?"
"With sweat." Ye Mo said with a smile.
Zhang Yuanqiao smiled and nodded: "Okay, I hope there will be a three-hundred-pound super watermelon."
After hanging up the phone, Ye Mo looked at Tang Xun and said, "We'll go over there later. You can find an excuse and I'll tell you about the salary issue. You guys have worked hard for these watermelons all the time. You really can't do it in vain."
"What's the reason?" Tang Xun said.
"We will wait and see what happens." Ye Mo said. There is still a lot of work ahead. From the New Year to now, everyone has been in the melon field and they are all tired.
My parents are all at the reticulated melon, pruning the melon vines.
I used to think of one plant with three vines and three melons.
The planting density is high, so Lingquan probably doesn't manage enough. There are only two vines for one plant and two melons.
"How much does the watermelon in the greenhouse weigh?" Dad asked.
"Basically more than one per hundred catty." Ye Mo said.
"That's not bad. At the very least, it should be able to grow to more than 150 pounds..." Third Uncle said.
"When it weighs more than 150 pounds, it won't be a big problem." Ye Mo went over and took a pair of scissors and joined the team of pruning melon vines.
For the reticulated melon, the upper one is the main vine and the lower one. Both vines grow to the right...
Except for the two main vines, cut off all the newly grown sub-vines and secure the extending vines.
"How much can a melon cost when it grows to more than 150 pounds?" Tang Ming asked.
"I had a verbal contract with a boss before, and if it weighs between 150 and 230 kilograms, it will cost 20,000 yuan each." Ye Mo said, "If it weighs more than 230 kilograms, it will cost 30,000 yuan each."
"So expensive? Those 80 melons cost 1.6 million." Tang Ming said in shock.
"If we could sell them all, it would indeed be 1.6 million. But we only signed 30 large melons..." Ye Mo continued: "It's very troublesome to cultivate these large watermelons, especially this season... If it weren't for the good price,
I don’t cultivate these giant watermelons specifically.”
"It's a verbal contract. What if the other party reneges on it then?" Uncle Xiao Mian said.
"The other party has paid a deposit of 100,000 yuan. If he goes back on it, it shouldn't be a big deal... Even if he goes back on it, I won't suffer a loss. Anyway, I have already accepted 100,000 yuan."
"Yes."
Tang Xun handed his uncle and the others a cigarette, came to Ye Mo's side, and said with a smile: "The weather is so hot now, look at my wife, she's tanned... If you could sell all those big watermelons,
Don’t forget our hard work.”
Ye Mo smiled and said loudly: "When the watermelon is sold, I will give you a big red envelope."
"What do you think?" Tang Xun smiled and asked, "How big is the red envelope?"
“Exceptionally big red envelope.”
During the time when I was raising melon seedlings, life was relatively easy. If I went out to hire people, I could definitely hire them within three hundred yuan a day.
But the work after that became more tiring.
Especially now, in March, the daytime temperature has already exceeded 30 degrees Celsius. The sun is strong, hot, and sunny...
Nowadays, if you hire someone to work in the fields, you can get at least 350 yuan or more.
Last year, Ye Mo hired people to open up wasteland, and the cost was more than 300 yuan a day. Last year, the production team also hired people to help with fertilization, and some families also hired people to help, and the cost was basically more than 350 yuan.
After the 11,000 vines were pruned, it was just after four in the afternoon. Dad Ye asked: "Is there still anything left?"
"No more." Ye Mo said.
Watermelon is setting fruit.
The vines on the cantaloupe side have also been pruned...
"There will be less work later. I will start combing the fruit tomorrow, so I will only have one morning's work," Ye Mo said.
"Okay, let's go fishing." Tang Ming roared and said, "Let's go fishing."
"If you go fishing now, can you catch something?" Ye Mo said.
"The water level has dropped several meters, so we will definitely be able to catch fish," Tang Ming said.
"You just joined the Air Force yesterday." Ye Ran said with a smile.
"Yesterday was yesterday, and today is today." Wang Hao said: "The air force yesterday will definitely catch fish today. Just wait to eat fish tonight."
After the watermelon vines were sorted out, I wasn't too busy anymore and could finish the morning work every day. Dad and the others finished work at about the same time yesterday afternoon and went to the reservoir to go to the air force.
"Brother Ye Mo, our mango orchard needs water and fertilizer. Come over and help me carry the fertilizer." Chen Chen said.
Ye Mo finished the work at hand and said, "Wait for me to go back and take a shower."
"We also need water and fertilizer for our orchard..." Ye Zhi looked at Ye Mo and raised his eyebrows.
"Just getting some water and fertilizer, how big of a deal it is." Ye Mo said, "We also need some water and fertilizer for our mango orchard... Hahaha, let's do it together."
