130 acres of watermelon, 30 acres of cantaloupe...
And more than 30 acres of netted melons built on shelves.
After applying organic fertilizer once, there wasn't much to do. I just cleaned the newly grown vines regularly and watered them.
With Ye Zhi, Chen Chen, and Tang Xun helping here, all the work will go smoothly.
The fruits in the fields are growing day by day.
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Over at the production team, the mangoes are already blooming.
The pomegranate has also grown new leaves and flowers...
Ye Mo poured more than a ton of spiritual spring water into the reservoir last year. After March, all the orchards need irrigation. By the way, the spiritual spring water from the reservoir also enters the orchards of every household...
One ton of spiritual spring is diluted to the entire reservoir, and then the fruit trees are watered.
Ye Mo feels that the fruit trees in the village are growing particularly well. Last year, everyone applied organic fertilizer to the fruit trees. This year... under the arrangement of the village committee, the orchards at the foot of the mountain were also irrigated with water and fertilizer.
If the fruit trees are growing well, it can be understood that it is not all the credit of Lingquan. In fact, the credit of Lingquan should not be particularly big.
After all, there are too few spiritual springs supplied to the reservoir.
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Busy time passes very quickly.
In a blink of an eye, it’s April.
The Gaoshanping watermelon has all been finalized, that is, it has stopped growing and has entered the mature stage.
The earliest watermelons planted are almost ripe.
The watermelon is all set, and all that's left is to wait for it to mature.
Ye Mo is now rooted in the melon fields. Even if there is no work, he still runs to the melon fields several times a day.
The watermelons in the greenhouse have also stopped expanding. Even if they continue to water the Lingquan... the super-large watermelons have taken shape, but they are not yet mature.
Ye Mo dialed Zhang Yuanqiao's video call: "Mr. Zhang, how are you doing lately?"
On the phone, Zhang Yuanqiao said with a smile: "Business has been very good recently. By the way, are you going to sell the crayfish over there? I have some old customers here who are still talking about your crayfish."
"There are not a lot of crayfish, so we keep them for seed production. The crayfish here will probably not be sold until July or August," Ye Mo said.
"That's it." Zhang Yuanqiao smiled and nodded: "Let me see the big watermelon."
Ye Mo switched the camera and said: "These big watermelons are generally over two hundred kilograms in size."
"The biggest one weighs."
"The largest one weighed 267 kilograms in the past two days." Ye Mo said: "The watermelon has stopped swelling. When it matures and has the most moisture, it will still gain some weight. But it will definitely not exceed 300 kilograms."
"It's a pity. Three hundred kilograms is a cut-off point. If it can exceed three hundred kilograms..."
Ye Mo smiled: "It is too difficult to raise a watermelon weighing more than three hundred kilograms. I guess it will be possible in summer. I am also planning to plant a batch of large watermelons here. I will try to see if I can grow a watermelon weighing more than three hundred kilograms.
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"Okay. If it exceeds three hundred kilograms, the price mentioned before is 100,000 yuan." Zhang Yuanqiao said with a smile: "I have a greenhouse here in the resort, which contains the watermelon seeds you gave me, as well as other large varieties.
…Don’t tell me, the seeds you gave are really good, all 30 seeds survived. The largest watermelon weighs 89 pounds, but it is probably a hollow melon.”
It is really difficult to grow watermelons in winter, especially large watermelons.
Zhang Yuanqiao specializes in cultivating large watermelons. The largest one can weigh more than 100 kilograms. You don't need to open it to know that it is hollow.
The smallest watermelon planted by Ye Mo has grown to more than 50 kilograms. As long as it is not particularly big, it is not hollow. But those watermelons are not mature yet...
"Mr. Zhang, I want to ask you something." Ye Mo said.
"explain."
"What's the current price of watermelon?"
"Watermelons are relatively expensive at this time. The purchase price here is 4.8 yuan per catty." Zhang Yuanqiao said: "The goods I got from Lao Gao are second-grade melons. The demand for watermelons here is not
It’s very big. It takes several days to purchase more than a thousand kilograms at a time. Are the watermelons over there ripe?”
"It will be ready to be picked in the next few days." Ye Mo said.
Ye Mo said: "I just cut a watermelon, and the pulp is already turning red."
"How does it taste?"
"It's quite sweet."
"The market for watermelons this year is pretty good. I heard that melons are falling out of greenhouses, and the current purchase price is 7 yuan per catty."
The two chatted for a while and then hung up the phone.
In fact, Ye Mo has already contacted Boss Gao, the same Boss Gao whom Tang Xun introduced to him last year, to come and inspect the goods.
The price of watermelons is one per day, and the price is given after seeing the melons in the field.
Nowadays, the quantity of watermelons is small and the price is high.
The second-grade watermelon mentioned by Zhang Yuanqiao is the watermelon sensory index grade, second grade.
If you lose melons in the greenhouse, it is basically the first level.
Watermelons have not yet been launched in large quantities, so the price of watermelons is high and they are in high demand.
It's just a matter of price, there's no saying it can't be sold.
The sensory index of watermelon includes melon shape, color, pulp, maturity and surface, which are used to evaluate.
Melon shape:
Special grade, it has the shape that this variety should have, has a round appearance, is fresh and clean, has no peculiar smell, and has the maturity to withstand storage and transportation and market requirements.
First grade, it has the shape that this variety should have, has a round appearance, can meet the requirements of special grade, and has the maturity to withstand storage and transportation and market requirements.
Level 2: It has the shape that this variety should have, has a well-rounded appearance, and can be inferior to the requirements of the first level...
Melon color:
Special grade, with the skin color that this breed should have, without any negative or positive aspects.
Grade 1, with the skin color expected of this breed, without any yin or yang side.
Level 2: Has the skin color expected of this breed, but may be slightly shady.
Melon pulp:
Special grade, with the color and flavor that this variety should have when mature, uniform, no lumps, no white veins, no hollow...
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Peel: Special grade, less than and equal to 1.2 cm. First grade, less than and equal to 1.3 cm. Second grade, less than and equal to 1.4 cm.
There are several better indexes, which are quite complex.
For small melon farmers, these indices are useless. But for large melon farmers, these indices are very useful. Special grade, first grade, second grade... the price difference is quite big.
Generally speaking, it is not easy for watermelons in the field to reach the special grade, first-class sensory index. But in the greenhouse, the watermelons on the shelves grow in the air, with melon shape, color, surface and so on...
It's easier to achieve perfection.
As for the watermelons in the fields, there are usually more second-grade watermelons. First-grade watermelons are relatively rare, and special grade ones are rare...
‘Beep beep…’ The sound of a car horn came from the other side of the house.
Then, Ye Mo's cell phone rang: "Hey, Mr. Gao... I'm here in the melon field, okay..."
Ye Mo waited here for a while, and an SUV drove over.
"Mr. Gao, Mr. Guo." Ye Mo walked over and handed over two cigarettes.
Gao Yuan, fruit wholesale owner.
Mr. Guo is the owner of an online fruit store. Gao Yuan has a stake in Mr. Guo’s company and they are partners.
"Hey, these endless watermelons are growing very well." Gao Yuan lit his cigarette, looked at the melon field, and said with a smile.
The watermelon leaves in the melon field are still green and look very tender. This kind of melon field, you can tell at a glance that the management is very good, and it is a melon field that will bear two or three crops...
If early-maturing melons are managed well and watered and fertilized once after the watermelons are picked, the vitality of the melon vines will be awakened, they will bloom and bear fruit again. In other words, multi-ripe watermelons will be harvested one after another, just like cutting leeks.
But such melon fields are mostly found in greenhouses.
"My batch of watermelons is very good. In terms of appearance, it is no worse than the hanging melons in the greenhouse." Ye Mo also smiled and made an invitation.