Chapter 521: Imperial Tea Sapling
Early the next morning, Xiao Ping personally escorted the medicinal materials to the factory. After Li Weiguo saw so many raw materials in the warehouse, his hanging heart finally let go, and finally had some smiles on his face that had been on the board for several days.
Xiao Ping walked around the factory by the way. I found that under Li Weiguo's management, the whole factory was running in an orderly manner, and I couldn't find any problems at all, so I left with great satisfaction.
In the afternoon, Xiao Ping went to the company in Su City. Since you are the boss, you must always show yourself in the company from time to time, otherwise you will be too incompetent.
However, Xiao Ping still rushed back to the farm that night. He also has to prepare a large number of tea seedlings for the tea plantation, which is really inconvenient in other places.
After entering the demon refining pot, Xiao Ping first frolicked with the black devil who ran after seeing the master, and then went straight to the tea grove on the hillside.
The spiritual energy in the demon refining pot is abundant, especially suitable for the growth of animals and plants, and these tea trees are naturally no exception. Although the planting time is not long, more than 40 tea trees have grown very luxuriantly. The trunks of these tea trees are already thicker than an adult's arm, with knotted branches and lush green leaves, and even if they are said to be century-old tea trees, some people believe that they are outside.
Xiao Ping looked around the small tea forest, then took out the scissors he had brought in and began to prune the branches of the tea trees. Just like the tea forest in the demon refining pot, the tea trees in the tea garden are also propagated by cuttings. The speed of breeding in this way is relatively fast, and it can be carried out at any time in the demon refining pot. There is no need to wait for the tea trees to bloom and bear fruit before sowing and propagating, which is too time-consuming.
More importantly, propagation by cuttings can completely retain the characteristics of the tea plant, so that the tea produced by the tea garden in the future can retain the flavor of the mother plant as much as possible. For Xiao Ping, who is bent on taking the boutique strategy. This is especially important.
At present, the area of the tea garden is more than ten acres, according to the ordinary planting density. These 10 acres of tea plantations can plant at least 50,000 tea trees. However, Xiao Ping considered that these tea seedlings were cultivated in the medicine refining pot, so he decided to reduce the planting density by half. Only 2,500 plants are planted per acre.
But even so, Xiao Ping had to cultivate 25,000 tea tree seedlings in a short period of time. If he hadn't had the treasure of the Demon Refining Pot, this would have been an impossible task.
Xiao Ping neatly cut the branches from the tea plant, and then pruned them to about the same length, removing all the leaves on it, leaving only two or three leaf buds at one end, so that one skewer was ready. He worked for several hours in a row, and it was estimated that it was almost dawn outside the demon refining pot, so he stopped and stretched.
The fruits of a whole night's labor. It's thousands of skewers ready to be skewered. Although each skewer is shorter than chopsticks, there are too many of them, and they are a lot of them on the ground. Fortunately, the tea trees in the demon refining pot grow very quickly, so they can withstand Xiao Ping's pruning. If you change to an ordinary tea tree, you will be cut into a bald head if you only make a hundred or so skewers.
"Let's get here today......" Looking at the skewers on the ground, Xiao Ping often breathed a sigh of relief: "At this rate, there will be four days of work at most, and the skewers will be ready!"
Of course, you can't just pile up the skewers on the ground. Xiao Ping put all the skewer buds face up into the big basket that had been prepared a long time ago. The basket is then filled with soaking into the spring and allowing the water to moisten the skewers that have not yet taken root.
This spring water can also be regarded as a treasure in the demon refining pot, and it is very good for animals and plants. As long as you water the herb garden with spring water, you can quickly make the herbs grow. Xiao Ping believes that as long as the spring is soaked for a while. These skewers will definitely grow roots and become tea seedlings that can be planted directly.
After Xiao Ping dipped the large basket containing the skewers into the spring, he quickly left the demon refining pot. I didn't find out until he came out. The sky was already dark. Although he had only been working in the demon refining pot for a few hours, it had been a whole night outside. It's really a bit of "one day in the mountains, a thousand years in the world".
However, Xiao Ping is no stranger to this situation. I didn't think much about it at all, and I still entered the refining demon pot that night to continue cultivating tea saplings.
After entering the Demon Refining Pot, Xiao Ping first went to the spring to check the situation of those skewers yesterday. When he pulled up the large basket containing the skewers, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the skewers were growing better than he had expected.
The leaf buds reserved on the skewers have grown noticeably longer, and they have grown into young leaves the size of fingernails. What made Xiao Ping even happier was that all the lower parts of the skewers had grown new white roots. If this situation continues, as long as these skewers are soaked in the spring for a while, all the skewers can grow into tea saplings that can be planted directly.
Xiao Ping was greatly encouraged by this unexpected situation, and hurriedly ran to the hillside to continue cutting the skewers. Encouraged by this unexpected surprise, Xiao Ping's movements were much faster than yesterday. By the time he was about to leave the Demon Refining Pot, he had cut at least half of the skewers compared to yesterday. Taken together, the total number of skewers is close to 13,000. At this rate, with just two more days of hard work, all 25,000 tea saplings will be complete.
Two days later, Xiao Ping took the first batch of cut skewers out of the demon refining pot. After three days of soaking in the spring, the skewers have grown into tea saplings.
Wang Cannon received a notice from Xiao Ping a day in advance, saying that the first batch of tea seedlings would arrive today. At dawn, he came to the tea garden with the workers of the farm, ready to plant tea saplings.
The tea tree saplings that had just been taken out of the demon refining pot were all very energetic, and the emerald green leaves naturally stretched out, as if they had just been dug out of the soil. When the big guy saw such a good sapling, he couldn't help but be amazed.
However, the blueberry seedlings and peach seedlings that Xiao Ping had obtained before were all in the same situation, so although everyone was a little surprised, they didn't think too much about it, and quickly devoted themselves to planting saplings.
At Xiao Ping's insistence, everyone planted these saplings at a density of 2,500 plants per mu of tea plantation. When planting the saplings, Wang Cannon kept nagging that it was a waste of land to plant so thinly. Xiao Ping didn't bother to explain anything, anyway, as long as it took a year and a half, when the tea trees were all grown, everyone would understand his intention to do this.
Thanks to everyone's hard work, all the saplings were planted. Xiao Ping took the opportunity of watering the roots of the saplings after planting them, and added a few drops of spiritual liquid to the water that irrigated the tea garden. After watering the water mixed with the spiritual liquid, there is no need to worry about the survival rate of these tea seedlings. And Xiao Ping believes that the growth rate of the saplings will be very fast, and by next spring, the tea saplings will have grown very big, and it is very likely that they will be able to produce tea. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )