The wheat harvest is over, Congcong is also born, Ye Yuan stays at home longer and longer, and Yunjin and Yunxi are both idle.

Yun Jin bored her head to read and went in the direction of the talented girl, and Yun Xi continued to toss her garden. The weather is hot, the rain is also increasing, and the chrysanthemums in the garden have grown to more than a foot high, and the cuttings are at the right time!

Among the four gentlemen in the flowers, Mei Lan bamboo chrysanthemum, she has little research on the first three, so she wants to develop her strengths and avoid weaknesses, vigorously develop chrysanthemum planting, and take into account plum blossoms. Although the plum does not belong to the category of plum blossoms in modern times, it is a proper plum blossom in ancient times, and more importantly, red plum and white plum, these real plum blossom flowers, unfortunately, it is difficult to plant in the open air in the north. If you really want to plant, it is not impossible, using the method of migration and domestication from generation to generation, moving north for three or four hundred miles at a time, and it will be almost the same for a few decades. Needless to say, chrysanthemums are definitely suitable for the north, and the Beijing Xia Ju Zuyi of later generations illustrates this.

Cuttings are the most used method to propagate chrysanthemums, different from the moon season, hard branch cuttings of woody flowers such as plum, jasmine, chrysanthemum as a woody plant, its cuttings are called soft branch cuttings, due to the high content of auxin in the shoots, the tissue is young and tender, the meristem is active, and the top buds and leaves have the effect of synthesizing auxin and rooting, so the soft branch cuttings are more likely to produce callus and rooting, and the corresponding survival rate is much higher. And the branches of the chrysanthemum itself are not as easy to lose water as geraniums and petunias, so cuttings are still very easy.

There is no carbendazim, traditional Chinese medicine to disinfect; No rooting powder, homemade wicker water. The first step of cuttings is to pick wicker.

"Yunxi, why do we pick so many wickers? Are you going to make hats, baskets, or what? Fu Junzhuo asked while tugging on the wicker.

Yunxi looked up at the boys on the willow tree and said with a smile: "I want to use it as rooting water and cuttings chrysanthemums." ”

Fu Junzhuo didn't believe it, "Yunxi, you tease me, can you cut chrysanthemums?" I can't touch it. ”

Yun Kai sat on a large tree branch, dangling his legs, and said slowly: "My second sister must have made it up." ”

Yunxi picked a handful of grass, made a group, tied a water beard, and went to smash Yunkai, "Hurry up and work!" ”

"It's getting worse and worse, what if you can't get married in the future?" Yun Kai grabbed it, shook his head and looked worried, "Jun Zhuo, you can do it and marry my second sister, right?" ”

"Yunkai, what are you talking about, come down for me, see if I don't beat you." Yunxi is so angry, this leather child, so many people are here, just selling his sister so much? It seems that she is so bad, although she became an older leftover girl in her last life, but she can't blame her, there are mothers everywhere, she is used to being an independent person?

Yun Kai sat on the tree and continued to die, "Second sister is still so powerful, you don't know how to blush?" ”

Belch...... Need to blush? Yunxi didn't feel that necessary, she felt that what she needed now was Superman's spider silk, so that she could fly up the tree and beat Yunkai with a peach blossom on her face.

Yunxi doesn't blush and someone blushes, Fu Junzhuo felt very embarrassed, his face was hot, he thought to himself, in fact, Yunxi is really good-looking, and his voice is soft and good, if he marries her, it should be very good? The little boy thought that his face was even hotter, he was afraid that he would be seen, so he quickly turned around and picked wicker with his back to the Yunxi sisters and brothers.

After picking the wicker, it is soaked, in order to quickly get the rooting book, Yunxi also cut them short, full of soaked in a pot, I hope it will be useful!

"Second lady, should we cut it from there?" Yuanyuan rubbed her hands and was eager to try, recently she learned a lot with her mother, because of the passion for planting flowers, she became the second flower lover after Yunxi.

"Yes, half a finger below the petiole, okay, cut it flush." Yunxi pointed to Yuanyuan, "There are about six inches left after removing the head like this, and the cuttings are just right." ”

"Why cut a little below this petiole? Why do you want to cut it flat? And why leave six inches long? Isn't it okay to have five inches and seven inches? Yuan Yuan asked, puzzled.

"Because it is easier to take root by cutting from where the petiole ises, the flat shearing is to reduce the area that touches the soil and plays a role in reducing the rot of the incision. As for why it's six inches, it's probably because this length has the highest survival rate! Yunxi patiently explained, trying to teach Yuanyuan everything she knew, so that she could become her own right-hand man.

It's a pity that it backfired, Yunxi didn't explain, but after explaining, Yuanyuan was even more confused, "Lady, how do you know where to cut the petiole to take root?" What is the reason for it? ”

Because of what? Because the growth hormone is higher here, because the segment of the ganglion is located in the middle meristem is developed! However, Yunxi decided not to answer like this, lest she ask what growth hormone is again? What is a meristem? That would be endless. So she took the master's posture and said decisively: "I don't know, that's what the book says." Do your job and ask what you are doing. ”

"Oh, okay." Yuanyuan saw that Yunxi's face was wrong, and immediately stopped asking, and said in his heart: It must be that the lady doesn't know anymore, after all, she is not as old as herself, and it is normal not to know.

The two acted separately, and after a while, the two of them cut a lot of branches, and Yunxi stopped when he saw it, "Yuanyuan, first clean up these and then cut them, don't wait a while." ”

When Yuanyuan came over, Yunxi took another branch and taught her, "In this way, cut off the head from a centimeter more than a centimeter of the knot, and then cut off the leaves below, like this, just leave three or four for photosynthesis." Also, leave two or three leaf buds and remove the rest. ”

"Oh, okay." Yuan Yuan understood after reading it, picked up the branch and dried it.

Yunxi saw that Yuanyuan didn't ask her again this time, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, photosynthesis or anything would not be in that book in the Song Dynasty, right? It's too hard to want to be seamless, and who doesn't know about photosynthesis in future generations? It's all in elementary school textbooks.

When the branches are trimmed, they are put into homemade rooting water, and then the new branches are pruned, and when the new branches are plucked and repaired, the soaked branches are replaced and the cuttings are begun on the sand bed.

First, dig a 6-8 cm ditch on the sand bed with a shovel, put the chrysanthemum branches one by one, and then fill the sand ditch and press it tightly. After the cuttings are finished, it is OK to water thoroughly.

Yunxi and the two of them worked all morning, and their tired waists couldn't straighten up, so they finished cutting chrysanthemums. Looking up at the sky, it's still not good, you can still get the sun!

Yunxi asked Ye Yuan for help, planted wood around the cuttings bed, built a shelf more than one person high, spread branches on it, and made a soil shade net.

"Yunxi, are you sure?" Ye Yuan asked, "It's going to be a lot of life, can't our family plant it?" ”

Yunxi looked up and smiled: "If you can't plant it, you can give it away, grandma's new yard must lack flowers and plants, oops, no, I'm going to show them, it must be beautiful." ”

Why didn't you remember it the other day? A new yard is waiting for her to build a garden, but now it's too late, Yunxi can't wait to discuss with her grandfather after speaking.