In the following time, I pollinated the watermelon in the morning and combed the vines of the cantaloupe and reticulated melon in the afternoon.
The benefits of neatly arranged vines have already been revealed.
Not only has the work of pollination become easier, but it is also very simple to check the growth of watermelon.
Golden Beauty, one plant has three melons or three or four.
There are two main vines and one or two secondary vines.
Because they had made color markings, Ye Mo and others knew the specific pollination time of the watermelon.
The main vine is growing strongly and has climbed to the top of the shelf. Within nine days, there were at least 3 watermelons that performed well on the main vine...
The part of the melon left has a great influence on the size of the fruit and the level of yield.
Generally speaking, melons with the first female flower on the main vine will have small fruits and poor quality due to insufficient nutrition, such as deformed melons, hollow fruits, etc. The yield will be one-third less than that of melons with the second female flower.
The watermelons here in Yemo have strong vine growth and well-developed root systems, so there is no such situation. There is no difference between the first female flower sitting on the melon and the second and third female flowers sitting on the melon.
The flowering period in the seed greenhouse is much earlier, which can be regarded as the experimental field for Ye Mo and others.
The two melons on the main vine are more than 6 days apart, one big and one small.
If there are two melons on the secondary vine, the first melon on the secondary vine will be about 4 days later than the first melon on the main vine. The second melon on the secondary vine will be 8-10 days later.
If there is only one melon on the side vine, that's fine. You can leave it as you like...
While pollinating the watermelons, select the watermelons you want to keep and pinch off the tips. Try to keep one plant with four melons, and only keep three melons if a few vines have not grown well.
Xiao Jinfeng and Xiao Bee, these two small melons, normally only weigh two to three pounds each. For these two kinds of watermelons, most farmers are not pursuing big watermelons, but trying to make the watermelons smaller. Small enough to hold one in one hand.
Watermelon is the best.
The crispy-tasting watermelon that was popular in the market in the past was this type of small watermelon. The watermelon is small, with thin skin, delicate meat and good taste.
Those small watermelons are basically just one multi-melon plant. Otherwise, three to four thousand plants would be planted in one acre of greenhouse and hung up with ropes.
The watermelon vines on Ye Mo's side are very thick, especially the root section of the main vine. The thickest sections are as thick as the middle finger. Even if they are thick, the color is still very difficult.
The two small watermelon varieties are all three vines per plant. Try to keep 2 of each vine. One plant is six...
Cantaloupe and reticulate melons also bloomed after the watermelons finished setting.
The pollination time of these two kinds of melons is also in the morning, and the best time is from eight to ten o'clock...
During this period of time, I have been pollinating watermelons, and everyone has improved their speed.
The remaining 44 greenhouses are pollinated once in the morning. There are colored markers to mark the flower bases that have been pollinated.
In the morning, I pollinate the cantaloupe, and then I get busy with the watermelon work.
The cantaloupe also has 3 vines, 2 melons per vine. The pollination work will continue until 6 melons are planted...
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The pollinated watermelon then begins to swell and stays the same for several days.
During this period, the soil moisture should be maintained, and foliar fertilizer should be sprayed once... Wait until all the watermelons are established before watering, which is water and fertilizer management.
There is Lingquan, and Ye Mo's watermelon management is actually not very particular.
If there is no spiritual spring, it definitely won't work according to Ye Mo's management method. Or if there are less spiritual springs, it won't work either.
Busy and busy, time flies by.
It's December.
The cantaloupe has also been pollinated, so try to keep 6 melons per plant. In the reticulated melon, one plant has three vines, and one vine protects one melon, that is, one plant has 3 melons.
The cantaloupe and reticulated melons are also finished.
afternoon.
The workers continued working in the watermelon greenhouse, putting nets on the watermelons and hoisting them up.
The largest golden beauty already weighs five or six pounds. If there is no net bag to hang it, the watermelon's melon stem may not be able to bear this weight.
Now that he is not busy at work, Ye Mo does not go to the fields in person, but is basking in the sun on a deck chair outside the warehouse and drinking tea.
The temperature is just right, the outdoor temperature is in the early 20s during the day, which is very comfortable.
The sun was so warm that I almost fell asleep. My father-in-law came over and said, "You feel comfortable."
Ye Mo smiled and rubbed his face: "Is the oil tanker coming?"
"Come right away." My father-in-law said.
The greenhouse here at Ye Mo needs to maintain the most suitable temperature for the growth of melons and vines. The greenhouse must be heated almost every night. Occasionally, the greenhouse must also be heated during the day...
The fuel consumption is very bad.
When the heater is turned on for one hour, the maximum fuel consumption is 16 liters.
On average, it is about 15 liters per hour.
The temperature dropped suddenly in the past two days. On light rainy days, the highest temperature during the day was 12 degrees and the lowest temperature at night was 4 degrees.
In just one day, Ye Mo consumed more than 80,000 yuan in gas expenses.
In the next few days, the temperature at night was also extremely low, reaching more than 20,000 in one day.
From the time the heater was installed to now, in more than a month, the fuel cost has been 450,000. Taking into account the refilling, the fuel cost has been over 500,000.
For the electricity bill, I recharged 100,000 yuan, and there was still more than 60,000 yuan left.
As long as the sun shines and it doesn't rain... the exhaust fan should be turned on at noon.
375 2.2kw exhaust fans consume more than 800 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour, which is scary.
The gas truck came over and filled up all the heaters, which cost tens of thousands more.
"The expenses for your greenhouse are really quite large." Lin Shan said with a click of his tongue.
"As long as the watermelons are all ripe, you will be very profitable." Ye Mo smiled and lit a cigarette for his father-in-law. He saw the somewhat bald Tang Xun coming on a battery car.
"Bald baby, what's wrong with you?" Tang Xun came closer, and Ye Mo saw that he was covered in mud and said.
"The road on the gravel slope slipped and I fell." Tang Xun said, "Are the unicorn melons here ripe?"
"not yet."
"Isn't it ripe yet?" Tang Xun wanted to see the quality of Ye Mo's watermelon.
"Kilin melon is a seed melon and matures late." Ye Mo said.
"How do you manage it and make the unicorn melons ripen late?"
"Lower the temperature of the greenhouse." Ye Mo said foolishly, looked at Tang Xun a few times, and said, "We haven't seen you for a while, and you are bald again." He was a little bald before, but now he is even more bald.
"Damn, I'm so worried." Tang Xun scratched his head and said, "I had a big shed copying your work, and the whole army was almost wiped out."
"I've told you before, the unicorn melons you have can only have two vines at most, one vine and one melon. If you don't listen..." Ye Mo took out a cigarette and handed one to him: "What do you want when you come here?"
matter."
"Come and take a look at your greenhouse." Tang Xun said, "The little watermelons you have here should be almost ripe, right?"
"In another three to five days, the first batch of melons to be pollinated should be mature."
"I have the second crop of melons over there, and they are already in production." Having said this, Tang Xun was a little excited, and then said, "Have you and Li Xuebin agreed on the price? The watermelons I have over there are so beautiful."
"Not yet." Ye Mo said, "There's nothing exciting about the second crop of melons bearing fruit. I only have several melons in one batch."
Tang Xun rolled his eyes and said, "How do you manage those melons? I told the group that 6 melons were managed at the same time, and all 6 melons grew very well. No one in the group believed it. How did you manage them?
ah?"
"That's how it's managed." Ye Mo spread his hands.
There are 17 greenhouses in Tangxun, 13 of which are managed according to one plant and one melon tube.
His watermelons are only 7-10 days away from picking.
Leave the main vine first, and leave one or two side vines when the main vine is more than half a meter high. Save one melon first, and select it on a vine that has not been used when the first melon is 7-10 days away from maturity.
The second crop of melons is to pollinate the female flowers...the time must be precise. In this case, after the first melon is picked, water and fertilizer management can be carried out, and then one or two new vines are selected. This is the third crop of melons, and so on, the fourth crop.
Stubble melon, five stubble melon, the same...
The premise is that the melon vines cannot age. As long as the melon vines do not age and the temperature is suitable, new vines can continue to grow.
Greenhouses are most suitable for cultivating multi-ripe watermelons, especially greenhouses with temperature control management.
Ye Mo has been busy with his own affairs. He hasn't been to Gravel Mountain for a long time. Tang Xun rarely comes up, so he often communicates with Ye Mo on the phone.