Chapter 85 Cotton Transplanting
Next to the greenhouse, Yang Yuanzhao saw Yang Yue, who was directing the workers, the transplantation of cotton is an important link in cotton planting, whether it can increase production, depends on the success rate of transplantation.
In the past few weeks, after the wheat has been harvested, the thousands of farmers employed by the reclamation company have been digging pits.
Different from the indiscriminate planting of ordinary farmers, under Yang Yuanzhao's suggestion, the whole piece of cotton is evenly distributed, using medium density, with an average of 4,800 to 5,000 plants per acre.
In later generations, the survival rate of cotton transplanting will be more than 98%, in this era, because of all kinds of troubles, may not reach such a high Cheng dù, but Yang Yuanzhao and Yang Yue are as much as possible to ensure the success rate, on the land, neatly dig out the transplantation pit, and then pad the base fertilizer and fertilizer, after these reasonable proportions, when the final transplantation, the soil in the petri dish will be transplanted to the past, an inch square of small pottery, each only planted two seeds, for this.
Because of the storage of greenhouses, coupled with quite abundant manpower and day and night care, the germination rate of cotton in the greenhouse is extremely high, at more than 95%, and the abundant fertility, watering and carbon dioxide make them more robust than ordinary plants.
Among them, the clearest thing is Yang Yue, mainland cotton is a high-quality cotton seed that he has been exposed to in the United States, but no matter how high-quality cotton is, it is not perfect, and mainland cotton has its own disadvantages.
As a relatively common cotton species in the United States, its initial characteristics are not good, and its adaptability to the environment is very poor, which affects his yield and quality to a certain extent, but it is strong in the later stage, which makes him stand out among many cotton varieties and become a new cotton seed in the marketing world.
The whole United States, and even Europe, there are a large number of scientists, are studying the method of improvement, if we find out the law of the continental cotton, change the disadvantages of his initial weakness, and increase his adaptability, in this way, the biggest shortcomings of the continental cotton, will be made up, and the overall index will also be on the basis of the original, there will be a huge improvement.
As an agricultural scholar, Yang Yue once wanted to study it, but he didn't expect that in Yang Yuanzhao's place, it was the easiest solution, using chemical fertilizers, basic base fertilizers, increasing nutrition, so that cotton seeds can be better absorbed, with the help of greenhouses and sunlight, carbon dioxide, to improve the growth ability of cotton plants, at present, most of the plants that are preparing to transplant, their average leaf surface, plant height, thickness dù, are much higher than the continental cotton native to the United States, only planted for a little more than a month, but more like six or seven weeks of plants.
For cotton, one of the most important indicators is sunshine, and the reason why future generations will plant a large amount of cotton in high latitudes is the extremely important condition of sunshine.
The length of sunshine is divided into congenital and acquired, congenital is the only condition, high-latitude areas, naturally have relatively long sunshine conditions, but on the other hand, it lies in the cotton itself, shorten the growth period, let cotton grow all the leaves at a faster speed, and make full use of sunshine, which is also an important condition for cotton production.
Yang Yuanzhao's method, avoiding the high latitude area, in April and May, occasionally cold, is not conducive to the growth of cotton, so that the cotton, in the greenhouse faster, healthier growth, in this way, will be on the original basis, increase two to three weeks of complete growth period, cotton plants, will grow taller than the original, the area of the leaf surface will be larger, and finally reflected in the yield, there will be a greater improvement.
2,000 people, under the command of Yang Yue, carefully planted the cotton that has been cultivated in the land, this process, as much as possible to reduce the damage to man-made, although because of conservative problems, they are in the germination rate, the bottom line is 85%, the transplantation rate, the bottom line is 90%, in this way, just the germination rate, they have 10% more plants, and then there will be a lot more ample, not to, replanting, left in the greenhouse, but also able to grow for a period of time.
2,000 people, waiting for 21,000 acres of land, all manual, the action is not slow at all, three days, completed all the transplantation work, the next week, Yang Yue all-round monitoring of the growth of cotton, for the time being, has been determined, this transplanting has been a complete success, the success rate is actually controlled at 96%, compared to the 98%, 99% of the later generations, but it is also the highest level of this era, waiting for the land all the year round, and there are some cotton masters from the cotton production field, They were even more surprised, these seedlings that had just passed the seventh week and were less than 2 months old, compared to the average cotton maturity, what would be the yield of such tall cotton?
The planting of cotton, for the time being, came to an end, next, about the work of the cotton itself, there is not too much, just weeding, watering, fertilization, cotton needs more water, especially in the growing period, the summer in the northwest, less rain, fortunately, there is a Yellow River next to Baotou, with a steam mechanism zuò pumping machine, enough to support the growth of 21,000 acres of cotton.
However, I don't know if the cotton is good or not, but Yang Yuanzhao and them ushered in the first income in less than June.
It is also an accident to say, the first time to plant cotton, many things, can not be accurately controlled, so, when Yang Yue planted in the greenhouse, there was a large margin, about 10% of the cotton germination was left, and 12% was left for transplantation, cumulatively, unconsciously, a quarter of the cotton plants were still in the greenhouse.
With the cotton plants getting bigger and bigger, the greenhouse is no longer enough to make these cotton grow, Yang Yue also doesn't know, what about these, no matter how to say, long-term planting, it takes a lot of material resources and manpower, these cotton plants are lost, some pity, but the whole Baotou, now can not find the land to plant these cotton, it is difficult to be, in this greenhouse, even if the greenhouse is removed, these cotton, can not be completely planted in the 600 acres of greenhouses, not to mention, these greenhouses, After completing the cultivation and planting of cotton, Yang Yuanzhao also wants to carry out other research.
A recruited cotton planting master, once plucked up the courage, directly told Yang Yue about these cotton seeds, it turned out that among the farmers, most of them were very optimistic about this cotton.
Agriculture is a thing, these masters who have been planting cotton for many years, they have a set of methods to identify the yield, although their estimate of the total output is not necessarily accurate, but only by virtue of the current estimate, the output of these cotton, will not be less than 180 catties, which is a huge number, at least three times higher than the average cotton.
Cotton is a very precious cash crop, the income from planting cotton, will be much higher than the general grain, high-yield plants, has always been a secret treasure, secret, now, nearly 24 million, has grown quite good cotton plants, put in the greenhouse, they naturally come to ask the price.
As long as you find the land, transplant the cotton, and take care of it a little carefully, you can harvest the finished cotton in a maximum of 3 months, which is three times higher than the yield planted before, and everyone will calculate this account.
Yang Yue didn't expect that these cotton plants that had been planted could still be sold, and he was not familiar with commercial things, but fortunately, Liu Shucun gave Liu Shu the commercial things to Liu Shu, and finally Liu Shu negotiated with them for 1.2 yuan for 5,000 plants.
This price, relative to cotton seeds, I don't know how much higher, an acre of land is basically 5,000 plants, such a cost, compared to the harvest of a season of planting grain, but the sale, not slow at all, more than 24 million plants, it took only a week, it was sold out, just like that, the surrounding cotton landlords are still flocking, a little cover, the price will be higher.
With the 6,000 yuan in the account, all the shareholders were speechless, including Wu Guangren and Zhao Shuming, who had long been full of confidence in Yang Yuanzhao, the input-output ratio was huge, and they saw the benefits in 2 months, even if this season's cotton, encountered natural disasters, they couldn't lose much money, not to mention all the cotton masters unanimously favored the plant, they would not casually do the loss of money in the business, it is foreseeable that after 3 months, the cotton output will be more brilliant.