Unless the seeds are sprinkled and watered as they were at the beginning, and then they are born brainlessly, the growth of all things greatly shortens the growth cycle of plants, and also brings inconvenience to field management. Fortunately, he is a magician with a physique that is superior to ordinary people, otherwise just pruning and pressing the vines for the watermelon vine is enough for a person to drink a pot.

Soon, watermelon vines covered the melon fields, and flower bones began to emerge from the nodes. As a dioecious plant, in order to improve the fruit setting rate, artificial assisted pollination is imperative.

When pollinating, it is generally necessary to select female flowers with thick bud stalks, hypertrophic ovary and normal appearance for pollination, so that female flowers are easy to set fruit and grow into high-quality melons after pollination. According to Ganguyu, Liangyue takes the fresh and open male flowers, pinches the petals with his hand in the direction of the flower stalk, and then aligns the stamens of the male flowers with the stigma of the female flower, and gently dips them a few times.

One male flower can pollinate two or three female flowers. With the experience of pollinating sunflowers last time, everyone was more proficient this time, except for one redhead who seemed a little clumsy, but also quickly completed the pollination work.

Of course, being able to complete the pollination work so quickly is also related to the workload. A watermelon vine, two vines on one side of the main one, each with three strong female flowers left on it, and the rest of the flowers were all pinched off according to Ganguyu's instructions.

When they heard this command, everyone present was stunned. Pinch off the flowers, then how can you hang the fruit? Gan Guyu dispelled everyone's doubts with only one sentence at that time: "Do you want ten small melons with thick skin and light taste, or one or two juicy and sweet melons?"

Therefore, when the female flower gradually fell and the pedicle began to gradually swell, a new round of "slaughter" began. Everyone reluctantly left only one melon on each vine, and the others were killed. Some watermelon plants are not growing as well as they should be. There is a melon on the vine that does not leave a single melon, and only a small melon is retained in the whole plant.

At this time, the young melon has a layer of fluff on the surface, which looks very cute and cute, and the paper of Liangyue Peipei and other sisters is so cute. If it weren't for Gangu Yu urging with burning eyes on the side, I really don't know if they can do it.

As a matter of fact. If it weren't for the good quality of the watermelon seeds in Ganguyu and the good maintenance of soil water and fertilizer in the field, leaving only one melon per watermelon plant would be the best solution. However, for Pei Pei Liangyue and others, who were born in the Natural Forest, it was simply torture to let them pick flowers and fruits, so Gangu Yu also made some compromises appropriately.

When the watermelon grows to the size of an egg, it enters the bulking melon stage, and it is imperative to apply a large amount of puffed melon fertilizer.

The puffing period is the period when watermelon needs the most fertilizer in its life, but at this time, the root system of watermelon has been covered in the melon field, and the root system will be injured by hole application or furrow fertilizer. If you don't pay attention to the ****, there will even be root burning near ****. Therefore, the application method of expanding melon fertilizer is to dissolve the fertilizer into water and apply it about one and a half feet away from the root of the melon.

At the same time, in order to avoid excessive vegetative growth affecting the puffed melon, Ganguyu also ordered everyone to remove all the tips of the watermelon vines. However, pruning is generally not done at this time, so that more branches and leaves can provide nutrients for the fruit.

Watermelons, which have sufficient water and fertilizer, expand rapidly under the growth of all things, but you want to get good quality melons. The care of the fruit is also a top priority. Generally speaking, young melons need to be bagged for protection. However, due to the short time required for rapid generation, this process can be ignored.

When the watermelon grows to about three or two catties, you need to use some soft sandy soil, or wheat stalks and leaves to pad the melon.

When the watermelon continues to swell until it begins to take shape, it needs to be turned three or two times. The part of the watermelon that touches the ground also receives light, so that the ripeness of the melon pulp is as uniform as possible. In order to prevent spraining the melon handle when turning the melon, the angle of each turning melon should not be large, and the melon should be turned in the same direction.

This is the time when Gangu Yu is most tested, because he needs to reduce the growth rate of the entire melon field first. Wait for others to finish turning the melon and then speed up the birth. Because it is necessary to turn the melon several times, during which the growth rate of all things changes frequently, the adjustment of the growth rate of different watermelons is indeed a headache for Ganguyu.

Fortunately, there are many people with great strength, and everyone's movements are not slow, so Ganguyu persevered, and the melon turning work went smoothly.

Although it is the first time for everyone to turn the melon, there have been cases of spraining the melon handle when the melon is first turned, but it is only an isolated phenomenon. Later, the women of Liangyue learned from the pain, and directly used the perception technique to observe the situation at the melon handle to turn the melon, and there was no mistake.

The watermelon grew to the size of a basketball as scheduled and no longer expanded, and Gangu Yu knew that it was finally time for the melon to precipitate sugar and soon be fully ripe. Some watermelons that can stand up are lifted up, which is conducive to the round shape of the watermelon and the coloring of the skin.

After the two steps of turning the melon and standing the melon, the watermelon can only see the sunlight when it lands, otherwise the appearance of the fruit is not good-looking, and the thickness of the peel is uneven, and the fruity taste is light, which affects the quality and is not beautiful. At this time, there was not much time left for the watermelon to ripen, and everyone began to use the melon leaves to cover the melon.

The skins of young watermelons contain a large amount of chlorophyll, and the photosynthetic products produced will be directly transported to the fruit to promote the accumulation of sugar, so it is necessary to let the watermelon receive as much light as possible at this stage.

When the fruit is about to ripen, the chlorophyll in the peel is gradually decomposed, photosynthesis declines, and the fruit mainly undergoes the transformation of internal organic matter, rather than manufacturing and accumulation, so the watermelon at this stage should be covered with leaves.

Soon after the cover was completed, Gangu Yu estimated that most of the watermelons were ripe, so he finally stopped the growth of everything and exhaled heavily.

Seeing that Gangu Yu had stopped the growth of all things, Pei Pei immediately looked at him: "Are these watermelons ripe?

Gangu Yu silently sent a perception technique to the melon field, probed the ripeness of each watermelon, and then nodded: "Most of the melons are already ripe, and some can let them continue to grow in the field for a few days." ”

As he spoke, he walked up to a round watermelon, picked it off, checked it and hugged it to Peipei: "This melon is ripe." ”

Pei Pei took the watermelon, his hands couldn't help but sink down, and then he steadied it, and couldn't help but be surprised: "It's so heavy, just this one is estimated to be a bag of weight, right?"

Gangu Yu nodded: "If the varieties are different, the weight of a single watermelon is also different." Each of our watermelons weighs about a bag. There are also varieties of three or two that are enough for one bag, and of course, there are also single ones that weigh more than one bag or even two bags. ”

Pei Pei stuck out his tongue and looked left and right at the watermelon in his hand: "Then how should this watermelon be eaten?"

"I know. Liang Yue walked over with a smile, "It must be cut open and eat the red melon pulp inside, right?" )