0282 Harvest
Xu Yi estimated that the cork skin he had processed would weigh almost hundreds of kilograms, and if he dried it, he could get at least thirty or forty kilograms of cork.
The peeled barberry is yellow inside and out, exuding a faint bitter taste, Xu Yi feels that this barberry skin is much thicker than the barberry he has seen before, and the color is also darker.
The active ingredients in barberry are mainly berberine hydrochloride, palmatal hexanine and rhizomeline, which can not only play the role of anti-inflammatory and sterilization, but also have certain pharmacological effects on nerves and myocardium, so Phellodendron is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine, with the effects of clearing heat and dampness, detoxifying fire and detoxifying, and reducing deficiency and heat.
According to the precedent, Xu Yi guessed that the content of these active ingredients should not be too small, of course, this is just Xu Yi's own casual guess, he has no conditions, no money, and no time to do the ingredient testing of this thing.
Moreover, Xu Yi still has a scruple. Just like when you send cherries for testing, the units that have the conditions to do these Chinese herbal medicine tests must have a clear grasp of the corresponding ingredients of conventional Chinese medicine, and if you send this thing for testing, the content is not much different from their number jรน, naturally there is no big problem, but if the content difference is relatively large, then there will definitely be people who doubt the origin of this thing.
Although Guan Huang Bai belongs to a large number of Chinese medicinal materials, the annual circulation in the market is relatively large, but after all, Huang Bai is a national protected plant, this Guan Huang Bai can not fall from the sky, their own lie is very problematic, a careless may appear in various situations.
As for the yellow barberry whose trunk was completely peeled, Xu Yi was not worried about what could happen to it at all. Like cork oaks, peeling the bark of barberry will inevitably cause some damage to trees. Delay its growth, but be careful not to damage the xylem. This little damage is not enough to cause the trunk to die.
Now the price of cork is rising, in fact, it is inseparable from the illegal logging and illegal peeling of barberry in the early years. Those who steal the barberry are not careless, regardless of the life or death of the tree, often the cutting depth is relatively large, which will inevitably hurt the xylem under the skin, if the damage is too much, it will naturally make the water of the roots can not be transported to the branches and leaves, and the nutrients made by the branches and leaves can not be transported to the roots, and the tree will naturally die.
In addition, even if this does not happen, there is a lack of protection from the bark. The barberry is susceptible to pests and diseases, and some people even peel it in autumn and winter, which also makes the barberry lack the protection of the bark and die from frost damage.
In fact, if you are careful, peel the skin of the barberry in the right season, and then use plastic film to properly protect the wound surface to prevent the mucus exuding from the surface from drying too quickly, as long as two or three months, the barberry can regenerate new bark and cortex. After two or three years of careful maintenance, you can peel the skin again. Such a one-time operation naturally makes the resources of barberry suffer a great waste, and also makes the wild barberry less and less.
After such a long time, there are many crops in the space that can be harvested. The fennel, coriander, and other plants have begun to turn yellow and even wither. But it's already full of fruit.
Xu Yi plucked a bunch of ears from a fennel plant and rubbed it on his hand to get a small handful of plump seeds, and it was obvious that the pollination problem that had plagued Xu Yi for many days was finally solved by the bees.
These fully ripe things just need to be cut and dried as before. Those leeks, green onions, and things like that are a little bit more troublesome, and these things have roots. Like daylily, you have to collect more than just the seeds. You have to replant it to complete the work.
In addition to these things, Xu Yi accidentally walked under the pine tree and found a fully ripe pine cone falling from the ground, and some pine nuts were scattered next to it.
Xu Yi walked over and picked up a pine cone, and found that the scales on it had completely bounced off, and there were no pine nuts left in it. The pine cones of this red pine are relatively large and heavy, so it is easy to fall from the tree, and the number of pine nuts on the ground is obviously more than the pine nuts that can be contained in this pine cone, so I think it fell out of other pine cones on the tree.
After the pine towers were completely dried on the trees, the ones above pried up, so they bounced out of the pine towers. However, because the seeds of this thing are relatively heavy, and there is no wind in the space, they all fall under a few pine trees, mixed with the scattered pine needles on the ground.
Xu Yi looked up, then walked to the bottom of a tree, kicked hard at the pine tree, and then quickly dodged and walked directly towards the tarpaulin.
Such a large pine tower is heavy, and even the fruit stalk behind it can't help its weight, and it really falls down and hits the head, even if it doesn't kill you, it's likely to be smashed into a concussion.
As soon as he jumped out of the range of this pine tree, Xu Yi heard a crackling sound behind him, and it took a while before stopping. Looking back, thirty or forty pine towers had fallen from the ground, and there were quite a few more pine nuts and pine needles, and I think that these things were either about to fall, or they were held up among the branches and leaves that had fallen on them. Looking up, Xu Yi found that there were basically no reddish-brown ripe pine cones on the tree, but there were a lot of green pine cones of different sizes.
Xu Yi went to the side of the tarpaulin and brought a bag over, and made up his mind that if he went down to this tree in the future, he would have to be careful.
Back to the edge of the tree, Xu Yi held up the bag to block the top of his head and hit several other pine trees again, and a lot of pine cones and pine nuts fell on the ground, and even a lot of acorns were also brought down by the vibration of the pine tree.
Of course, if this acorn is used, Xu Yi is not going to clean it up, and it is useless to collect it, and it will not cause insects or rot if it is placed here.
Xu Yi took a rake and a broom and collected all the pine towers and pine nuts together, turning them into a big pile. If you really take the bag, I'm afraid that this bag won't fit!
However, since this pine tower has been dried, there is naturally no need to collect it again, Xu Yi took the two pine cones and knocked each other, so that all the remaining pine nuts inside fell out and threw them aside, waiting for the time to deal with them together.
After all, this thing contains a lot of oil, which is good for heating or cooking, and if you don't have firewood when you go home in the future, you can use it for emergencies.
It took Xu Yi to clean up all the pine towers and pile up a pile of pine nuts on the ground.
Xu Yi took the bag and packed the pine nuts, almost half a bag of pine nuts. For such a situation, he was already very satisfied, after all, these trees did not bear fruit for a long time, and there were naturally not many mature pine towers, so it was good to have so many.
Of course, even if this tree bears more fruit after a while, it is also unrealistic to rely on these trees to make dumplings with pine nut corn filling in large quantities in a short period of time, and it is the easiest and most reliable way to plant more pine trees if you want a higher yield.
The production and source of pine nuts are not the fundamental reason for limiting the development of pine nut corn dumplings, how to peel off the hard shell of pine nuts and obtain clean pine nuts is the biggest challenge I face.
If we can't solve the technical and equipment problems of shelling, even more pine nuts are useless. If you really rely on yourself to hold a hammer hammer and ping pong, I am afraid that I will not be able to peel many pine nuts in a day, and I have to consider the food hygiene and food safety of this pine nut, and I want to know that the quality of the pine nuts peeled out in this way must be very poor.
This will definitely limit their thinking in a large way, there is no problem in peeling a small amount of pine nuts and making them yourself, thinking that it is completely unreliable to provide pine nuts in large quantities, and these things still have to rely on machinery to solve them.
After harvesting the pine nuts, Xu Yi walked to the bottom of the coffee trees, and after such a long time, the underside of the coffee trees was also like a cherry tree, with a layer of coffee cherries.
Xu Yi picked one up from the ground, the size and shape were about the same as cherries, so it's no wonder that some people call coffee cherries cherry coffee.
Pick it up and smell it, it doesn't taste too big, Xu Yi threw it into his mouth and took a bite, there was only a thin layer of flesh under the tough peel, which exuded a sweet fragrance, but inside it was a big core.
The beans that look like watercress are wrapped in this silver-white core, and only by removing the skin on the outside of the core can the coffee beans be obtained.
Xu Yi smiled, this coffee is bitter, the flesh on the outside is sweet, this thing looks a little similar to sugar pills.
Holding the basket, Xu Yi collected all the coffee cherries on the ground, but these coffee varieties were different, so Xu Yi also separated them according to different varieties, but filled most of them in several bamboo plaques.
Of course, there are also peeling and other jobs in the future, but at the moment, Xu Yi has no time to think about these things.
With so many coffee cherries on the ground, there will naturally be no shortage of coffee cherries on the trees, and picking coffee cherries from the trees is the normal way to harvest them from the outside world. After all, the flesh of this coffee contains a lot of sugar, and if the coffee cherries fall to the ground, they will soon become black and rotten due to bacterial infections and other things, and if they are mixed with the picked coffee, it is easy to change the taste of the coffee.
But there are no microorganisms in the space, let alone oxygen, so Xu Yi is naturally not worried about such a problem. He also made up his mind that this thing would only be like those cherries in the future, collecting ripe fruit from the ground once in a while.
After all, this thing is about the same size and shape as a cherry, and if you pick it from the tree, it will undoubtedly take too much manpower, and it will inevitably be worth the loss.
Harvest is undoubtedly a gratifying thing, and it is also a busy season.
Xu Yi hurriedly lived for a long time, and finally harvested everything back, the row of bamboo plaques was full, and even the tarpaulin was neatly set up with rows of bamboo poles, with various seeds hanging on it.
Even watermelons and melons Xu Yi also harvested a lot, and piled up a lot of them in the tent, making the whole tent fragrant. (To be continued......)
PS: Sorry, it was just passed to the public chapter......