The number nine is calculated from the day of the winter solstice, and every nine days is a unit, also known as 'winter ninety-nine'.

This is a folk way to calculate the dates of cold days and spring flowers.

Generally speaking, the coldest time is the third and fourth nine. When the number is nine, ninety-nine and eighty-one, it is time for the spring birthday.

Ye Mo said before that the seedlings will be raised after counting nine, but he doesn't really have to wait for eighty-one days to pass, but after nineteen, depending on the temperature. As long as the temperature is right, the seedlings will be raised.

It's New Year's Day.

The local temperature is very different from day to night.

It is in the early 20s Celsius during the day and the lowest temperature is ...... at night. 3 degrees Celsius.

The nursery greenhouse has been set up, and the seedling tray is also loaded with nutrient soil. However, the temperature at night has been too low recently, and this temperature will continue for some time......

Watermelon is not resistant to low temperatures, even if the watermelon seedlings have been grafted, the temperature is too low at night, which can easily lead to the death of melon seedlings. This temperature is usually 7 degrees Celsius as the critical point. Of course, it also depends on the choice of rootstock, and the variety of watermelon.

After that, Ye Mo carried all the fertilizer to the melon field, and used the excavator rake claw to clean up the weed roots in the soil again.

Time flies, and it's more than ten days in January.

Ye Mo took out the sun-dried planting in advance and began to soak it...... This time, it will be soaked directly with the spiritual spring, without mixing with water. Then start the germination......

Germination is induced and heated with water vapor.

After the seeds germinate, they are planted one by one into the seedling tray.

Germination, carried out in batches, about 4400 watermelon seedlings and 2000 melon seedlings per day.

Watermelon and muskmelon, the rootstock selected by Ye Mo is gourd, gourd is an annual climbing herb of the Cucurbitaceae genus, with a well-developed root system.

The seeds are lowered into the tray and the temperature of the greenhouse is controlled.

As a seedling of rootstock, the seedlings are planted two or three days later.

In about a week, the grafting work began.

Grafting watermelon seedlings is a delicate job, although it is very simple. A skilled person can graft more than 2,000 plants a day.

Ye Mo invited Third Uncle Li to come over to help guide for a day, his parents, as well as the second and third uncles, and Tang Sui and their whole families came to help. Xiaomian's eldest aunt and eldest aunt also came to help.

The first day was very slow, more than 6,000 seedlings, twenty people, almost not finished.

The next day, the speed of grafting melon seedlings is faster.

Ye Mo and Lin Xiaomian are busy promoting germination and planting every day......

The grafting work is done in the afternoon.

The work of grafting seedlings, with time, everyone is becoming more and more proficient.

The last batch of seeds also went down to the seedling tray in the greenhouse.

Ye Mo has statistics, the purchase of watermelon planting, 44,000 grains.

If you have bought a large number of seeds, you should know that when you buy seeds, you will usually only give more, not less. Unless you encounter those black-hearted merchants......

Actual watermelon seeds, more than 50,000 seeds. Some seed germination was unsuccessful...... About 52,000 seeds were planted.

The same is true for muskmelons, Ye Mo received about 26,000 melon seeds, and about 25,000 seeds were planted under germination.

5,000 seeds were planted with reticulated melons, and 5,500 seeds actually arrived.

Ye Mo studied the density of the shelf reticulated melon, and added 5,000 seeds to plant...... Actually 11,000 seeds.

Watermelon seeds, melon seeds, these germination rate ...... Usually the requirement is more than 85 percent. After soaking in the spiritual spring, the germination rate is particularly high.

The last batch of seeds goes down to the tray of seedlings.

Lin Xiaomian had been squatting for a long time, his legs were numb, and he stood up and moved his legs and feet: "My legs, I feel like they're about to be scrapped." ”

"I'll let you sit on a stool, but you won't." Ye Mo walked over and helped her.

"It's too slow to sit on a stool and go up and down the seeds." Lin Xiaomian worked fast, much faster than Ye Mo.

Also helping to plant seeds together were Tang Sui and his wife, as well as Chen Chen and Ye Ran.

Chen Chen and Ye Ran can be regarded as having a confirmed relationship.

Ye Mo went to Ye Ran's side: "Are you done?" ”

"Right now."

"What about you over there?" Ye Mo looked at Tang Sui and Wang Yue and asked.

"There are still a few hundred more." Ye Mo looked at the time, it was past four o'clock, and said, "No, I eat crayfish at night, I'll try to get two cages." ”

"Eat." Tang Sui smiled and said, "Catch more." ”

The temperature during the day can still be above 20 degrees Celsius, and there are still some crayfish active in the reservoir.

Ye Mo and Lin Xiaomian left the greenhouse, came to the reservoir, used lobster feed as bait, and threw three large cages down.

Ye Mo's mother, second aunt, third aunt, and Tang Sui's mother rode past the reservoir: "Let's go back to cook." Xiaomian, are your parents coming over later? ”

"Just set off for a while." Lin Xiaomian said.

"Do your parents eat mutton?" Mother Ye said: "I will go to the mountain to buy a sheep and eat mutton tomorrow." ”

"My parents don't have any taboos." Lin Xiaomian said.

Mother Ye smiled and nodded: "Let's go back to cooking." ”

The project on Xiaomian's parents' side is over again, and there is nothing to do.

Village plasterers, pretty much all like that. The salary of a single day looks good, but it is all about doing it for a period of time and taking a break for a while.

More than a dozen people on the side of the seedling greenhouse have already completed today's grafting work and are building a small shed on the open space next to it.

The grafted seedlings, after five days, are sure to survive...... Remove the grafting clamps, move the seedlings to the small shed, and carry out the process of refining the seedlings. Only after refining the seedlings can they be planted.

"All the seeds, all planted?"

"There are also rootstock seedlings...... Ye Mo said.

Dad Ye nodded: "Are they here?" ”

"On the way." Ye Mo said.

"Go catch some lobster and make lobster to eat at night."

"The cage has been put away." Ye Mo said, helping to lay the film in the past.

It's January 20th.

The first batch of seedlings can be moved to the shed in two or three days...... At the end of the month, it will be able to be customized.

Customized at the end of the month, the risk is still very large.

Their local weather, the best time to plant is next month...... That is, after forty-nine years.

High risk leads to high returns.

Watermelons, especially early-maturing melons, ripen a few days earlier, and sometimes ...... The price can be a few bucks.

Their early-ripening watermelons are mainly in Yunnan, and the price of freshly ripened watermelons is particularly expensive. After that, it's one price a day.

Ye Mo checked the agricultural network, and this year's watermelon planting area is about the same as last year. The reason is that in many places, the basic farmland can only be grown with grain.

The fruit industry is developing in the mountainous areas.

The policy is certainly good, but there are also people who are happy and some people who are worried.

Fruit growers like them in the mountains are very happy.

After setting up the small shed, Ye Mo went into the seedling shed and looked at the melon seedlings grafted before.

The survival rate of grafted melon seedlings is nearly 100%, anyway, after looking around, no dead melon seedlings were found.

After these melon seedlings are grafted, Ye Mo will come over to spray the spiritual spring once at night, and the growth is very good.

Leaving the nursery shed, Ye Mo went to the greenhouse.

There are 80 watermelons in the greenhouse, which were planted on the twenties last month, and it has been a month now.

The temperature in the greenhouse is high, and it is very small due to the low temperature at night.

Ye Mo pushed a cart, and there was a water tank on the cart.

The water tank has a capacity of 220 liters, and the inside looks around......

Dad, they packed their things and got ready to go back.

Ye Ran, Lin Xiaomian and the other women were on the side of the road, not knowing what to talk about, and laughing non-stop.

Tang Sui and Chen Chen hooked their shoulders and walked towards the reservoir......

Ye Mo took a bucket of spiritual spring from the space, 45 liters, poured it directly into the water tank of the cart, and then pushed the cart outside to receive water, filled it with water, stirred it, pushed the greenhouse, and watered the melon seedlings.

The vines of these melon seedlings are more than two meters.

One plant, Ye Mo left three vines.

One main vine that develops at the earliest, and two secondary vines.

These melon vines grow very fast, growing more than ten centimeters per day.

After watering, Ye Mo smoothed the melon vine.

Now the melon vine is very thick, and the root position is as thick as the little finger.

"Why don't you go back?" Lin Xiaomian and the others walked over and asked.

"Right now." Ye Mo said: "The weeds in the greenhouse have grown again, and I have to come over tomorrow to clean up the weeds." ”