0281 Peeling
The water in the space has been poured down, but the bamboo has not changed at all, what was it like when it was planted before, and what it was like after watering.
Could it be that this bamboo is developing a bamboo whip again?
Thinking like this, Xu Yi went to fetch a few buckets of water and poured them on again, but there was still no change in those bamboos.
Xu Yi poured them several more times without believing it, but there was no change, so he had to give up helplessly.
I couldn't help but think in my heart: the last time I planted peppers, this time I planted bamboo, it seems that at least this herb only has an effect when watered for the first time, and then it is useless, but I don't know if woody plants are also like this.
In addition to the tea tree, all the trees in my space are relatively tall, and I can't see that verifying such a conclusion can have much impact on myself, so there is no need to test it for the time being.
Could it be that the water is poured to promote the growth of plants because these plants have some potential, and after watering once, this potential is exploited?
However, whether this result is true or not, it is not something that he can control, Xu Yi can only go with them, and he has the right to water these bamboos, and they can live as much as they want.
Xu Yi is actually not too worried about the survival rate, the bamboo whips he keeps are long enough, and those bamboos are not very big, in the outside world, digging such a long bamboo whip can ensure their survival rate, and there is no reason for planting in the space with a lower survival rate.
And these things grow relatively fast, and the bamboo poles that I cut down for the time being are enough for my own use, and if I really can't survive, I can buy some seedlings by myself.
After all the bamboos were dug up, there was a large open space at once. The only things that need to be processed next to it are the daylily and greens, ginger and garlic next to it, and the rest are those peppercorns and star anise trees. And those coffee and cocoa trees.
The daylilies grew unusually luxuriantly, and a few flower stalks grew on each bush. Bunches of capsules bear on it.
Or maybe it's because of the need to provide nutrients to these fruits, and the yellow flowers that are still blooming in the whole field are no longer visible.
Xu Yi walked to the side and took a closer look, only to find that the peels of the capsules at the top of the flower stalks had turned gray-black, and the tops of many capsules were cracked, and the flower stalks below had dried up and turned yellow.
Reaching out and carefully picking a capsule and pinching it gently, the outer shell cracked with a snap, and more than a dozen triangular black seeds fell out, and it was obvious that these fruits were fully ripe.
Pick all these capsules and pour them into a bamboo plaque to dry. Then Xu Yi took a shovel and dug up from the side of the daylily. The daylilies dug up were neatly stacked in the basket by Xu Yi with the soil below, and the basket was soon filled.
Xu Yi walked to the vegetable patch with a basket full of daylily and scratched a shallow furrow on the ground with a pickaxe.
When sowing, Xu Yi sowed seeds, so each bush of daylily is three or four seeds germinating and growing together, after such a long time, the rhizomes below have already expanded, and many daylilies have been tillered, and the smallest bush has twenty or thirty plants.
Xu Yi reached out and took a bush of daylily and plucked the dried flower stalk on it. Then break them into small pieces, leaving only every three or five plants on each piece, and then reduce the excess fibrous roots of these daylilies, put them in the ditch and then cultivate the soil. Replanted them.
After watering them with the kettle again, Xu Yi shook his head. Aside from wetting the ground, the water also did not change in any way.
It took Xu Yi more than ten hours to complete the work of digging daylily and transplanting. And the daylily, which was originally only seven or eight points of land, has become five or six acres of land. Looking at these freshly planted daylilies, Xu Yi smiled slightly. Although it doesn't look as dense as before, as long as the daylilies slow down the seedlings and re-establish their roots. It won't be long before it's a lush scene again.
Such a large area of daylily, according to the normal conditions of the outside world, a batch can harvest almost four or five thousand catties of dried flowers, even if the area is no longer expanded, this is enough for their own use, but I don't know how long it will take for these things to bloom again.
Returning to the original bamboo forest, Xu Yi looked around. There is no need to rush the remaining greens, garlic and other things, and Xu Yi is not ready to transplant coffee and cocoa for the time being.
But when he saw those cocoa trees, Xu Yi remembered the lip liner that Liu Liping bought for him. Close your eyes and come straight out of the river.
It was quiet outside, it was already the middle of the night, Xu Yi didn't turn on the light, felt the black to find the lip liner, and then grabbed the tissue next to him and went directly into the space.
Opening the box and looking at it, Xu Yi secretly exclaimed, this is good, the pen barrel is divided into many colors, and it is just right to use it for this pollination work.
Xu Yi is going to try artificial pollination to see if these trees can bear fruit, and if they do, he is naturally prepared to take these seeds and cultivate them again, naturally to avoid the emergence of hybrid varieties that will affect the purity of the offspring. Xu Yi took out three pens at once, so that one pen could be used for each one, and this situation could be completely avoided.
Xu Yi had never done the work of artificial pollination, and he didn't know if this cocoa was a self-fertile plant, so he planned to collect some pollen from one tree first, and then use the pollen to pollinate another tree, and then collect pollen from another tree, and then pollinate the previous tree, so as to avoid the occurrence of self-sterility.
Xu Yi pulled out the cap of the pen, gently kneaded the tip of the pen to make the tip of the pen on it fluffy, so that the effect could be better achieved, and then took out a piece of paper and spread it on the other hand, and then walked towards the trees.
Walking under a tree, Xu Yi endured the smell of cocoa flowers, the pen in his hand gently swept on the anthers of a flower, and the other hand held the paper to catch the falling pollen, and then changed the flower to collect it again, and soon a thin layer of pollen accumulated on the paper.
Xu Yi walked under another cocoa tree of the same species, took the pen directly and lightly tapped it on the paper, so that the tip of the pen was stained with a little pollen, and gently swept it on the stigma of a flower.
Of course, even the flowers on the branches of the larger trees Xu Yi did not let go, and stepping on the ladder also gave pollin.
It took a long time to pollinate the hundreds of flowers on this tree, and it was up to fate whether or not they could bear fruit, and how many flowers would bear fruit.
Later, Xu Yi changed another piece of paper, and then collected some pollen from the flowers that had not been pollinated on the tree, and then returned to the original tree to pollinate. I don't know how long it took for Xu Yi to pollinate these trees.
Shaking off his arm, which had been a little numb for a long time, Xu Yi closed his sour eyes. Staring at such a small flower here with wide eyes, this must be comfortable to see the hell! Xu Yi even felt that when he closed his eyes, there were still countless large and small cocoa flowers overlapping in front of him, and the work of pollinating plants was really not done by people!
All that remains is to wait, if they can't bear fruit, these trees will naturally have to be cut down, and even if they can bear fruit, they will be replanted after harvesting the fruit, and the tree will also have to be cut down again!
Xu Yi took a shovel and an iron pickaxe to clean up the original bamboo forest and the ground where daylilies were planted, cut off all the bamboo roots that were exposed on the ground, and buried all the dried bamboo leaves scattered on the ground in the original bamboo forest, and sorted out six square fields.
These fields are ready to be used by Xu Yi to cultivate various saplings.
Now that this space is so large, if all of it were to be generated, it would naturally take no effort, and even save seeds, and a lot of wood can be cut down when needed.
However, Xu Yi thought that he would suddenly need to plant ice powder seeds, if he planted the tree now to give birth to it, in case it happened again, like planting the ground full of things before, and when he really opened his business, he found that there were not enough vegetables and needed to be planted urgently, wouldn't he have to cut down the tree now.
So he is going to cultivate the saplings first, wait for them to grow up and then transplant, I want to come to that time, his own store should have been opened, if there is no additional demand, he can grow up by transplanting and watering this tree, he still has dozens of logs are useless, this tree planting, there is no need to rush for a while.
Xu Yi sowed several tree species on the furrow, and even those less oak trees, Xu Yi also planted them separately on a small furrow.
Although there was still a lot of work to be done, but remembering what happened before, Xu Yi walked to the edge of a barberry tree with a firewood knife, ready to peel some cork bark from the tree.
These barberry barberries are not much thinner than the mouths of large bowls, and the bark of the trees, which are covered with regular vertical bars and deep grooves, is pale grayish-white.
Xu Yi squatted down and carefully slashed the trunk close to the root, and then cut it around the tree with the blade, cutting off the outer bark and cork layer, careful not to damage the xylous layer underneath the cork.
After making it, Xu Yi set up the ladder on top of the tree trunk and cut it around the bottom of the branch.
Then, Xu Yi took a firewood knife and cut vertically down from the knife marks above on the trunk of the tree, until he cut to the knife marks below, carefully pried the bark from the tree with the tip of the knife from the place where the knife marks were connected below, pulled it with his hand, and then used the firewood knife to completely cut off the cork where the cortex did not rise, and peeled off the entire bark completely.
Taking the bark back to the edge of the workbench, Xu Yi took a firewood knife and carefully peeled off the gray-white bark outside, revealing the bright yellow inner bark inside, and then cut off a thicker layer of cork that was attached to the inside, and then cut it into sections and put it in the bamboo plaque to dry. (To be continued......)