Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 161 70% survival rate

"What can you think of?"

"It all depends on my ability. You don't have to worry about it. I'll just get the things for you anyway."

"Okay, that'll be troublesome."

"It's okay, this is nothing."

Mi Tutu looked at Mi Tutu who was silently picking up bricks and sighed: "To be honest, I am really surprised that you can take Da Ma here.

In fact, I'm not afraid of being embarrassed if I say it. After my aunt died, people in the village didn't want to care about Dama anymore.

People in their clan felt that Da Ma had influenced my aunt, and they had very strong opinions on him. They wished that he would die on his own.

There are some people in the village who are a little sympathetic, but if anyone takes care of him, he will not be able to get along with other people and will be gossiped about.

Besides, Da Ma doesn't want to come into contact with ordinary people. If he gets close, he won't be happy.

If you go back and forth like this, you will lose it.

Meeting you is really the fate he cultivated in his previous life. I have to say that this boy is lucky to meet such a noble person as you. "

"It's not that exaggerated anymore."

Li Muyang looked at Mi Dama, who was working silently not far away, and sighed: "What a noble man, I just can't bear it.

We can't do anything big, so we just try to help others to the best of our ability to have peace of mind.

How can you think so much? "

"Well, Brother Shepherd, this is what I admire about you."

"what?"

"You see you are not old, but if you live a more transparent life, I won't be able to do it. I can't control so many things. I just need to be able to control myself."

"Haha~
That's pretty good. Take care of yourself so you can say more. "

When the two of them were talking, Mi Dama kept working honestly, as if he didn't hear the two of them talking.

Li Muyang had discovered this a long time ago.

Every time you talk to Midama, you must call him out before he will be activated. Otherwise, no matter what you say, he will seem to turn a deaf ear.

"Okay, I'll leave first. Don't worry about Lime. I'll take care of it."

Mi Tutu stepped on the cigarette butt into the dirt, stood up, and patted the dust on his butt.

"Sorry, brother, I'm waiting for your good news."

"It's easy to talk about. Compared to you, I am nothing. Besides, you didn't let me do it for nothing, right? I didn't make money from you."

"Haha, that's not making money, it's just a bit of hard work."

"Let's go."

Mi Tutu hummed a ditty and left.

Li Muyang saw that the bricks on the cart were almost full, so he called Mi Dama to pull the cart to Taoshan together.

The brick-paved road was only half-built, and the front was a dirt road built by Li Muyang before.

It rained two days ago, and some of the edges were immediately washed away by water. From a distance, a big saw was placed on the ground.

What's even more depressing is that because the road surface was not pressed firmly after being leveled, many small pits seeped out in some places.

It's quite difficult to move a small three-wheeler with a full load of cars.

Li Muyang originally wanted to pull it by himself, but Mi Dama was eager to try, so he had to let him pull it. After pulling Li Muyang, he realized that this boy was really strong, and he didn't know where his thin body could get the explosive power.

He pushed from behind, and the two of them came to the east peak of Taoshan.

The sorted waste bricks are piled on the ground.

After pouring the bricks, Li Muyang took Mi Dama to check the saplings grafted some time ago.

Midama was very interested when he saw something familiar to him.

Like a young man who discovered a toy, he ran to the grafting places of various trees from time to time, and put his eyes very close to observe carefully.

Sometimes he would be beaming with joy, sometimes he would just shake his head angrily.

After reading them one by one, Li Muyang found that the survival rate of grafting was about 70%, which was pretty good.

A successful grafting is considered to have a survival rate of 6%.

But looking at Mi Dama, he didn't seem satisfied.

"Da Ma, do you know how to do this?"

"meeting."

"Then you and I can play this together later, okay?"

"it is good."

Midama doesn't feel that working is tiring, but is very happy.

While agreeing, he was still dancing.

Very excited.

Li Muyang carefully observed the survival rates of different grafting methods and found that the sleeve type basically had 100% survival, while the T-shaped grafting had the lowest survival rate.

So he planned to use sleeves for large-scale grafting.

Anyway, the branches of the original rootstock have no significance in continuing to exist, so just cut them off.

The success rate of small-scale grafting has little impact, but if you enlarge the entire tree, with more than 300 trees and thousands of buds, even a 10% failure rate will make people busy.

The higher the survival rate, the better.

Now that we have tried it here, we will wait until the end of June for the official grafting.

He has cut off the main branches of more than 300 trees here before, keeping them ready for grafting at any time.

The two passed through this half and came to the remaining half.

At this time, a small number of flowers on these early peach trees have begun to wither.

Naturally, these trees cannot bear peaches.

A spring was wasted in vain.

Li Muyang stood under a tree, looking at the flowers on the tree, thinking about what to do so that these peach trees could bear peaches this year.

Even if the fruit bearing rate is only [-]%, thousands of kilograms of peaches can be produced.

It costs thousands of dollars anyway.

When Mi Dama came to the peach blossom, he excitedly circled the peach tree, but accidentally tripped himself to the ground.

It happened that the ground was covered with peach blossoms.

He carefully picked up a peach petal, looked at it with some surprise, and then put it under his nose to smell it.

Hululu began to shake his head.

"The flower is broken, it's broken." "You said the flower is broken, where is it broken?"

"No little peaches."

Li Muyang was stunned for a moment, secretly pleasantly surprised.

Midama was indeed much more professional than him in tree cultivation.

He knew that the peach blossoms on Peach Mountain could not bear fruit after they withered. That was because of his personal experience.

But Mi Dama just accidentally fell down and saw the peach blossoms, and immediately discovered that the peach trees could not bear fruit. This was purely an amazing talent.

"Why can't we get married?"

Li Muyang asked knowingly.

He wanted to see what abilities Midama had yet to show.

Midama stood up, stretched out his hand, pulled down the branch of the peach tree, and scratched the bark with his nails. He glanced at it first and frowned.

To Li Muyang's surprise, Mi Dama actually stuck out his tongue and gently licked the area cut open by him.

Then he gently let go of the branch and shook his head.

He carefully circled around the peach tree a few times, picked out a few peach blossoms, put them in his hand, and showed them to Li Muyang.

"It's not pollinated, it's too sour."

A master is a master and can spot the problem at a glance.

Of course Li Muyang also knew these situations.

So he asked Mitama: "What should we do?"

Midama didn't say much. He held a petal in one hand, brought the two petals together, shook them slightly, and then separated them.

This is what artificial pollination means, and Li Muyang understands it.

Of course, for true artificial pollination, you cannot remove the two flowers. You only need to use a small wooden stick to poke each peach blossom to complete the pollination process.

Relatively speaking, it is much simpler than pollination of fruits such as kiwi fruit.

In fact, kiwi fruit can also be grown in Qingcheng.

Referring to the kiwi fruit from Shaanxi, the Ziwu Mountains are a branch of the Qinling Mountains. The climate here is very similar to the main mountain range of the Qinling Mountains.

The famous Qinling kiwi fruit can naturally be planted well in Qingcheng.

But in this era, kiwi fruit is not very popular and the cost is too high. There is no market for growing it.

It was not part of Li Muyang's plan.

What surprised Li Muyang was that Mi Dama could tell the problem of soil acidity, which was outrageous.

He is still really talented in this area.

Sure enough, there was nothing wrong with bringing him over.

The two of them walked along the edge of the field and checked the peach trees one by one. When they encountered some trees that were not growing well, Mida would circle around the trees with a sad face. When he encountered good trees, he would be very excited.

When they reached the end of the field, the two stood on the ridge. Li Muyang pointed to the dark tree and said, "Da Ma, starting from tomorrow, let's pollinate the trees together, how about it?"

"Okay, okay."

"Can you?"

"meeting."

"Then when you're pollinating, do you feel tired?"

Midama said nothing and shook his head like a rattle.

"Okay, then if you work hard, what reward do you want?"

Midama grinned.

Put both hands on your mouth and lick it, the meaning is self-evident.

He wanted to eat candied haws again.

"Okay, you behave well, I'll give you a lot of sugarcane."

Midama held out three fingers and said, "Three."

"If you eat too much, your teeth will hurt. You can only eat one a day, do you understand?"

"Oh."

Midama looked a little downcast.

But in fact, he didn't think so.

Trying to pretend to be in front of Li Muyang was still a bit off.

Li Muyang looked at him like a child and suddenly felt funny.
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In the next two or three days, Li Muyang went to work with Qinqin and Mi Dama during the day.

The three of them walked together in the evening.

Li Muyang was not willing to make his sister work too hard.

She always goes to work for a while in the morning, and as soon as the sun comes out, she goes home to cook or something.

Wait until the sun goes down in the afternoon and then go work for a while.

The sun in the northwest is very strong in summer, not only because of the temperature, but also because of the strong ultraviolet rays.

If exposed to the sun, people will not be able to bear it.

Li Xiangqin is not in good health and has very white skin, so she is most afraid of ultraviolet rays.

On the contrary, he and Midama had no such worries.

All the men in the northwest are so tanned that when they are bare-chested, it looks like they have been rubbed with tung oil.

Such is the culture of this place.

Men need to be upright and rough to be liked and respected by others.

Guys who are delicate and unmanly will be looked down upon.

Will be ostracized and laughed at.

Therefore, this kind of natural sunlight can give men the best identity stamp.

Li Muyang is not afraid of hardship, and Mi Dama is not afraid of hardship. Every time he works, he is like a robot without emotions.

As long as Li Muyang doesn't talk about taking a break, he will continue to work.

And it was fun to do it.

These days, the important job for him and Li Muyang is to pollinate flowers.

To catch up on the last bit of time, squeeze all the possibilities out of these early peach trees to see how much potential they still have to tap.

(End of this chapter)