The industrial fuel-fired air heater that Ye Mo chose was cheap, but the cost of use was high.
However, they need to use heating here, that is, December and January, these two months are used more. And November, February... are used occasionally.
There is a heater, which is smart and can adjust the temperature.
During the germination period of watermelon, the most suitable temperature is 15-20 degrees Celsius.
During the seedling stage, 15-25 degrees Celsius is most suitable.
During the spreading period, the best temperature is 20-25 degrees Celsius.
During the fruiting period, the best temperature is 25-30 degrees Celsius.
The final temperature is 25-35 degrees Celsius.
These are the most suitable temperatures, but they are not necessarily these temperatures.
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 lowest temperature at night was 12 degrees Celsius. It was a bit cold, so Ye Mo and Lin Xiaomian covered themselves with quilts when they slept at night.
Everything is ready, it’s time to grow the seedlings.
The organic soil for raising seedlings and Ye Mo have been prepared.
The main ingredients of organic soil are organic fertilizer, wood chips, and coconut leaf chips, a mixture of the three.
Seedling tray, a 32-hole seedling tray used by Ye Mo, with a length of 0.54 meters and a width of 0.28 meters...
A 3-acre greenhouse can hold about 9,200 seedling trays after leaving aisles, which is 294,400 plants.
If they all survive, one greenhouse can cultivate 294,400 seedlings.
The seedling seeds have been soaked in Lingquan in batches. In the greenhouse, Ye Mo and the others are adding organic soil to the seedling tray. After smoothing it, they put the seeds one by one into the seedling tray.
"I thought about it. If you want more ripe melons, the density should not be too high." Ye Mo said, "For me, I can plant 3,200 melons in one greenhouse. Are you going to stick to the original plan of 1,600 melons per acre?"
"With a shelf, 1,600 plants per acre is not too much," Chen Chen said.
"I'll just follow your lead. Whatever your planting density is, I'll just follow you." Tang Xun said.
"So are we..." said the two Niu brothers.
"Same." said the second uncle.
Ye Zhi said to Chen Chen: "Follow your brother Chao, and you won't be hit by flying knives. Whatever Ye Mo does, we will just follow him."
"Yeah." Chen Chen nodded.
"If there is a shelf, you can plant a large number of melons, and the density should not be too high." Ye Mo said: "In the future, if the watermelons in the greenhouse are dead vines, they can be replanted later. There are 1,100 melons per acre, as long as all the melon vines can be guaranteed to bear melons.
, once mature, even if the price is 5 yuan per catty, you can earn about 20,000 yuan."
"Only 20,000 yuan?" Tang Xun said with a smile: "I don't accept it... Once you mature, you have to make at least 30,000 yuan to be happy."
Ye Zhi chuckled: "If I can really get 20,000 yuan in revenue, I can secretly laugh. 17 acres of greenhouses, one batch is 340,000 yuan. If we can collect two batches, we will make back our money."
"Brother, how many watermelons do you have for this vine?" Ye Ran asked.
"Let me take my side, one vine and two melons." Ye Mo said, "I don't mind imitating. There are many people here, the equipment is good, and my management will definitely be more careful than yours... If you don't mind, I can save one melon. I can save one.
Gua, your work is not in vain."
Tang Xun nodded, looked at Ye Mo, and said with a smile: "You could get several sweet potatoes and watermelons from one plant before. Now that we have greenhouses, are you so conservative?"
"It's better to be more conservative." Ye Mo said, "What I just said was one vine and two melons, not one plant and two melons."
"I go……"
Ye Mo chuckled and said: "Don't be envious. I mainly have small melons like Little Bee and Little Golden Phoenix. One watermelon only weighs two or three kilograms. How many watermelons can one plant leave?
It depends on the specific situation. The main watermelon you grow is Kirin watermelon. Each Kirin watermelon weighs five to six pounds. One vine can save one melon, which is pretty good." Ye Mo put the melon tray with the seeds on the pusher.
In the car, I pulled a melon tray filled with organic soil, smoothed the organic soil on the melon tray, and continued to plant seeds...
"If I want to keep two watermelons on one melon vine, how should I keep them?" Chen Chen asked.
"First leave a main vine. When the main vine grows, it will be about one meter tall. A secondary vine will grow on the main vine...Choose a secondary vine with the best growth." Ye Mo taught them his experience: "In the future, we will need to grow more secondary vines.
During the second crop, the secondary vines should not be too close to the roots. Usually, the main vine grows flowers first. Don’t rush to pollinate at this time. Wait until the secondary vines bloom and pollinate together. Then you need to pinch the top... Leave two melons,
These two melons will definitely not grow as well as one melon."
"By the way, you should keep a few more melons during pollination. After the watermelons are established, select the ones with the best growth and keep them..."
Leave a few more melons during pollination to prevent false fruits from appearing. That is, watermelons that have not set firmly will fall off as they grow.
"If you plant seedlings now, they will mature by the end of November?" Chen Chen said.
"Roughly the same."
Today is September 17th.
If everything goes well, grafting will begin at the end of the month... and planting will begin around the 5th of next month.
For small watermelons, it takes more than twenty days from flowering to ripening.
Master Liu, Master Li...Zhou Yue and the other six people prepared the black film for the greenhouse and covered it with black film, making a squeaking sound when stepping on the barbed wire pedal.
"Master Liu, Master Li... pay attention to safety and be careful." Ye Mo shouted. Master Liu was standing above Ye Mo and the others, on the long beam in the center of the greenhouse... Master Liu and Wang Long were standing
On top of the auxiliary shed, three people were pulling the black film.
"I know, it's very safe." Master Liu said.
The greenhouse in Ye Mo is 25 meters wide, which can be said to be very wide inside the greenhouse. In order to facilitate the formation of black film, a wire pedal walkway is installed on the roof of the greenhouse. Below the walkway is the greenhouse membrane...
Black film is a sunshade net, used to reduce the temperature in the greenhouse.
Nowadays, when raising seedlings, the required temperature cannot 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, etc. were all outside helping to pull the black film.
Making the greenhouse too big has both advantages and disadvantages.
In a 3-acre greenhouse, it is extremely laborious to haul black film and lay the greenhouse film.
Nine people pulled the greenhouse membrane and it took more than half an hour to finish it.
Ye Mo returned to the greenhouse, pushed out the prepared seedling trays, and arranged them neatly.
Ye Mo has 75 greenhouses and each greenhouse has 3,200 seedlings, so a total of 240,000 seedlings are needed.
Cantaloupes in 40 greenhouses, watermelons in 30 greenhouses, and cantaloupes in 5 greenhouses all have the same planting density.
Seedling cultivation, in addition to cultivating melon seedlings, also requires cultivating rootstock seedlings.
So Ye Mo needs 480,000 seedlings. There is also a problem of survival rate in cultivating seedlings. Not all seeds will germinate...
Coupled with Tang Xun's greenhouse, cultivating melon seedlings is a big project.
"There will be more to do later." Ye Mo put the plate back and said, "I won't be angry until the seedlings grow, and I will graft these seedlings."
"Think about when these greenhouse melons are ripe, and you will earn hundreds of thousands a day, you won't be annoyed anymore," Lin Xiaomian said.
"I want to try what I just said about keeping two melons per plant." Chen Chen said: "I have 24 greenhouses over there, and I will try out 4 of them. If I can keep two melons, when the second batch matures, I will
There are only two melons left over there."
"The first cropping and the second cropping are different." Ye Mo said to Chen Chen: "During the first cropping, the vitality of the melons and vines was very strong. But it is different during the second cropping."
"The coward will starve to death and the bold will die..."
"Well, come on." Ye Mo said with a smile.
It rained heavily and the water rose inside the house...
