0202 Planting trees

What is the difference between peppers and other plants in the space?

Of course, just as there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, there are naturally countless answers to such open-ended questions. However, Xu Yi knew that even the most senior botanical experts might not give the most realistic answers, and the real answer could only be found out by himself.

Thinking about it, the most reliable one of all the answers Xu Yi can think of is: chili pepper is a wind-borne flower, and all the things he planted in the space before, it can be said that except for pepper is a water-borne flower, the rest are insect-borne flowers, and it is the first time for him to plant wind-borne flowers and plants in the space.

Xu Yi glanced up in the direction of the tent, and then touched his nose.

He remembered the tree species he had bought, and was going to try to confirm it with pine and cork oak, which were also wind-borne flowers.

I can blow the wind on the delicate peppers, but this big tree is so majestic that it really comes down, even if it is the trunk, it will take a lot of work to carry it, and the tree that grows on the ground is afraid that I can't shake it if I shake it hard, this fan can have a fart, and then look at these peppers I have to be happy, and I want to blow them again.

Xu Yi carried the fan back to the edge of the workbench, unplugged the cable board from the cable reel, retracted the wire and coiled it into a ball, and walked to the tent.

Xu Yi squatted on the ground and pulled out the cardboard box containing the seeds, and pulled out the bag from the inside.

The first to come out was the cherries that had been brought in earlier, and the cherries in the bag were still red and shiny, and had not changed at all with time. Thinking about it, the seeds in it naturally maintained enough vitality, otherwise they would have been absorbed by the ground after being thrown on the ground for so long.

But there's really no spare space to grow this thing. And he has to cut down trees now, otherwise Xu Yi really wants to try. What kind of tree will this kind of seed be planted, after all, this cherry is likely to be a hybrid, and I don't know how many of the trees can still preserve the current characteristics, I can only wait until they bear fruit again, choose to keep or cut down according to different qualities, and then pick the good quality to stay, and then use cuttings and other asexual propagation methods to expand the planting area, of course, this kind of thing can be thought about by yourself, and I can't eat these cherry trees just now. Do you still need to think about new varieties?

Finding the bag containing pine nuts and acorns, Xu Yi grabbed a few pine nuts and cork oak acorns from the bag, as for the oak seeds sent by the boss, Xu Yi was reluctant to waste them in this real yàn, a total of just a little, if this real yàn fails, this tree will not be cut down by himself one day, this kind of seed will be gone, and you have to buy it again, so these things should wait first. Wait until you find a practical solution.

Xu Yi picked up a bucket of water and walked to the place where the carton had been placed earlier. After the boxes were removed, it became the largest open space in the space.

Xu Yi squatted down and planted all the red pine seeds and cork oak seeds in his hand at a distance of five or six meters. Lay the soil and water it again.

The germination rate of these seeds is obviously good, and none of them are spurring out of the soil. The seedlings grow tall rapidly, showing different characteristics.

The trunk of the Korean pine has a reddish-brown color throughout. The trunk of the tree is densely covered with irregular brown patterns, outlining the bark of the entire trunk in irregular shapes. It resembles a dense network of dragon scales, and the trunk of the cork oak changes from the dark purple of the young buds to a lignified gray-brown color little by little. But I don't know if it's because it's still short or something else. Whether it is a pine tree or a cork oak, the bark on the surface is still very smooth, not at all like the layers of warping, overlapping, and particularly rough under the natural growth state, but it is smooth and smooth like the soft skin of a girl.

It took a while for the trees to slow down and then become indistinguishable with the naked eye.

Xu Yi estimated that the diameter of these two trees was now almost more than twenty centimeters, and the trunks did not bend at all.

Of course, there are also fly in the ointment, the oak tree is okay, the bottom branches are almost more than three meters high from the ground, even if they are not repaired, it is not a big problem, but the branches of the bottom layer of the pine tree are only more than a foot high from the ground, and the branches that are already the thickness of a thumb are stretched out two or three meters long in all directions.

In the natural environment, because of the lack of light at the bottom layer, as the surrounding trees grow taller, the branches at the bottom will naturally die due to the lack of light, leaving only a handful of branches and leaves at the tip of the tree to grow upwards and strive to get the most sunlight.

In the management of plantations, the bottom branches like these are repaired early on, so that they do not grow too thick, and after logging, they will form knots, which will affect the quality of the wood.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi was also going to do this, and was ready to wait for the results before going back to get the saw and repair the tree.

Of course, even if you don't let them grow any longer, if you cut them down now, this tree can already be used directly, if you don't cut the wood, let them continue to grow, presumably the speed of this tree is so fast, and when it is cut down, it will definitely be a lot thicker, and you can finally get rid of the trouble of buying wood again!

Xu Yi took a few steps back, looked up at the past, two kinds of trees, two styles,

The pine tree is tall and majestic, the cork oak is graceful, the size of the pine tree is too high, almost to the top of the light curtain, the trunk from top to bottom layer of branches and leaves are very regularly scattered to the surroundings, like a green pagoda, the cork oak does not grow as tall as the pine tree, and this tree is not known for its height, compared with the two compartments, the crown of the cork oak is more lush and full, like opening a treasure umbrella, occupying most of the sky in the woodland.

It's just the first time I've planted this tree, and it's a little too close. Affected by the density of their own planting, the two trees in the middle are obviously a little unable to grow, and the canopy is limited to five or six meters, but the canopy of the few trees on the side near the direction of the open space on the outside is almost four or five meters away.

Of course, these are not the focus of Xu Yi's attention, he is more concerned about whether this space has any effect on wind flowers.

The male flower spikes of the pine tree were the first thing Xu Yi found, and these flower spikes were wrapped in a layer of fine light reddish-brown scales, which were very different from the color of the tender green needles around them, and they were all grown at the top of the branches, which were relatively easy to see, so Xu Yi could find them at a glance.

The finger-thick male flower spikes burst out one after another, and Xu Yi even felt that these flower spikes were dyed with a faint layer of yellow, thinking that this was the stamens inside or the pollen balls carried on the anthers above.

Male flowers naturally have female flowers, and wind flowers are characterized by dioecious flowers, and even monoecious ones like ginkgo biloba are not uncommon. However, after checking the information, Xu Yi knew that this pine tree was a hermaphroditic plant.

But I don't know if it's because of the beginning of fruiting, there are not many pine cones on the tree, they are all the same dark green as the leaves, and most of them grow on the top of the tree, and the position is relatively backward, so it is very difficult to find.

Xu Yi squinted his eyes and searched carefully, so that he could find one and a half in the shade of branches and leaves.

The cork oak is also unwilling to be behind the tree, and the tender green male flower spikes hang down from between the branches and leaves, which is also very conspicuous, but Xu Yi, who looks like a female flower, doesn't know what the female flower looks like at all, standing under the tree and looking up for a long time, his neck is sore, his eyes are spent, and he hasn't found one.

I don't know if it's because of the limited space or some other reason, whether it's a pine tree or a cork oak, it doesn't have the slightest sense of ostentation, and it just stands very quietly.

Xu Yi looked at it for a while, and found that the tree still hadn't moved at all, so he didn't plan to look at it anymore.

This tree doesn't say that it dances without wind, even the leaves don't shake a piece, it seems that I guessed the wrong direction, the reason why this pepper dances without wind or it has nothing to do with whether it is a wind flower, I will wait and see it later, and find the reason again.

Thinking like this, Xu Yi was going to go back to get the saw, repair the low branches of the pine trees, and keep these trees for the time being, waiting for himself to cut down those linden trees and then come to practice with these trees, to see if the red pine can cut pine resin, and then to see how those cork oaks are peeled.

However, just when Xu Yi wanted to turn back, he saw a relatively low red pine male spike suddenly spewing out a puff of yellow smoke.

Contrary to Xu Yi's imagination, the smoke did not spread to the surroundings at all, let alone fall, but drifted towards the top of the tree like a tired bird returning to the forest.

Xu Yi was stunned, and the smoke had already disappeared into the depths of the branches and leaves.

Xu Yi looked at it again, but he didn't see anything different about the place where the smoke disappeared, so he turned his gaze back to the branch.

After looking at it for a while, Xu Yi saw another puff of yellow smoke drifting out from a male flower spike.

Xu Yi's eyes widened, and his gaze kept chasing the direction of the smoke, which also drifted towards the top of the tree.

Xu Yi stared at the direction of the smoke, and finally found that the smoke turned in a direction and gathered towards the pine cones after approaching a cluster of pine cones, and then adsorbed on the pine cones, and after the smoke disappeared, a layer of yellow appeared on several pine cones.

Xu Yi knew in his heart, the yellow smoke was supposed to be the pollen scattered by the male pine flowers, and then spread to the pine cones covered with female flowers under the spatial manipulation, and then looked closely, Xu Yi saw that the pollen was not completely attached to the pine cones, and most of the pollen fell down and was absorbed by the ground.

Most of them are unable to attach to the pine cones and slowly fall down with a hint of aroma, which is then absorbed by the ground.

It's pretty much the same if you look at cork oaks, and sure enough, for wind flowers, this space can also perfectly solve the pollination problem......!