Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 8 Why are peach trees infertile?
Apart from anything else, Li Muyang's physique is first-rate.On weekdays, I go up mountains and down ditches, running from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain without even breathing.

And he also discovered a hidden attribute. After rebirth, his physical fitness was even better than in his previous life.

If the physical strength in the previous life was 160 points, then it is at least [-] points now, and the strength and speed are almost doubled.

This was obviously a gift from God to his rebirth.

I guess he doesn't seem to have any other strengths besides being able to farm, play with (four sounds) fruit trees, and know some yam and herbs.

If you re-create a piece of waste material without adding new skills, you will probably waste a chance of rebirth.

It should be so.

From Lijiacun to Xishan, the straight-line distance is only seven or eight miles, but by walking it is fifteen or sixteen miles.

To go to Xishan, he had to run down from Taoshan, cross Maliangou, and then climb up from Xishan.

The two mountains are only a few hundred meters above sea level, but they are very troublesome to run.

It’s not that it’s not that simple to fall straight down from the top of Taoshan Mountain to the valley and then be lifted up to the top of the other side by an elevator.

There are generally two types of roads in the mountains, zigzag or circular.

If it is only a small mountain road for people and livestock to walk on, it will usually be in the shape of a zigzag. If trucks or cars are to pass through, it will need to be built into a ring road.

On a zigzag mountain road, it is difficult for a car to turn around and it is prone to danger.

But the road from Taoshan to Maliangou and from Maliangou to Xishan are all zigzag-shaped.

People who take this mountain road are time-saving travelers or shepherds who can walk as long as there is a road.

In the eyes of mountain people, there is no special road.

As long as people can walk, it is the road.

Li Muyang ran for nearly half an hour and arrived at Peach Mountain.

As the name Peach Mountain implies, the mountains are covered with peach trees.

The area of ​​Taoshan is not too large among all the hills. It is only about three hundred acres, so it is considered a small hill.

This is the hilltop of Lijia Village. The village committee once contracted Peach Mountain to the villagers, saying that after the peaches are harvested, they can pick them and sell them for money.

As a result, the contracted villagers had to wait for several years until the peach trees bloomed in large areas, and then they discovered that these peach trees had problems. Most of them only bloomed but did not bear fruit.

Even if they barely bear fruit, they are small, crooked, and impossible to sell.

When they first contracted the contract, they didn't know about it. If they knew that the peach trees didn't bear fruit, who would have contracted it.

Just to see it bloom.

The blooming is not visible only to the contractors, but to the whole village.

When the relationship is blooming, everyone is appreciating it, but when it comes time to pay the contract fees, we have become the main enemies?
This will definitely not work.

The folk customs here are quite fierce, and everyone unites to find trouble with the village committee.

The village committee was also puzzled. They couldn't understand why it was a peach tree that was good at the foot of the mountain, but not good when planted on the peach mountain.

I had no choice but to return the money to the contractors to settle the matter.

As a result, these three hundred acres of peach mountains were left idle, and the peach blossoms bloomed year after year.

Gradually, people began to spread the legend that there was a peach blossom evil spirit in the mountains.

It is said that there is a monster full of yin energy living in the mountain, and he hates the peach tree, which symbolizes yang energy.It controls the lifeblood of all peach trees. If anyone dares to bear peaches, it will immediately drain the vitality of the tree and the tree will die.

So these peach trees are afraid and dare not bear fruit.

As soon as this kind of mysterious rumors came out, they immediately spread in Lijia Village.

Some people didn't believe it at first, but later they found out that those peach trees that had fruit hanging there really died very quickly, and they became convinced.From then on, no one thought about Momoyama anymore.

The only function of the entire Taoshan is to let the villagers of Lijia Village know that spring has come or that spring is over.

Li Muyang ran to Taoshan Mountain and felt a little tired, so he stopped to rest.

He was standing just under a huge peach tree.

This peach tree should be of some age. Don't look at the growth rings, just look at the thickness of the trunk. It's not more than 15 years old, so it won't be this thick.

Although it is old, the peach tree is still growing vigorously.

The pink and white peach blossoms are so densely packed that they almost break the tree trunk.

You can imagine what a joyful sight it would be if these flowers all produced peaches.

But the fact is that this peach tree has never bore fruit, and the trees that have bore fruit are all dead.

Li Muyang pulled off a branch and looked at the flowers on it. He couldn't help but nod and smile.

In his previous life, he actually didn't understand why these peach trees didn't bear fruit.

He had contracted [-] acres at the beginning, but it turned out that he had no choice but to give up after three years of contracting.

But Li Muyang later worked in the forest nursery for more than 20 years. He cultivated hundreds of different varieties and types of fruits with technicians and experts, and he already knew the habits of all fruits.

He is already very familiar with the reasons why peaches do not bear fruit, even better than the young technicians and experts in the forest nurseries now.

The so-called peach trees do not bear fruit is complicated to say, but there are only a few reasons for roughly classifying them.

There is no pollination.

Too much nitrogen fertilizer will lead to side branches, that is, the branches will develop too quickly and the growth advantages will not be well dispersed.

Too much water, for the same reason.

Improper pruning means that if the peach branches are pruned too short, the peach tree will have a "reverse psychology" and will accelerate the growth of the branches, leading to the phenomenon of short growth.

Another reason may be that there is no advantage in dispersed growth. Fruit trees will naturally grow upright and upward, and the middle part will be wrapped more and more firmly.

If the side branches are not suppressed, the middle part will not be able to pollinate or grow due to various reasons such as no sunlight, wind, rain and dew, and naturally it will not bear fruit.

After the rumors about the peaches not bearing fruit in the previous life were known to experts from the forest farm, they finally found out the true reason after several years of research.

It turns out that the nitrogen fertilizer content of the soil on this peach mountain is too high, causing the peach trees to spend all their energy growing leaves and branches, and have no energy to bear peaches at all.

Once you figure out the whole story, it becomes easy to solve it.

Since the nitrogen fertilizer is too high, we should take some measures to reduce the nitrogen fertilizer. Sure enough, after the treatment that year, the flowers will fall and the peaches will appear.

Momoyama is no longer a "useless place" where you can only enjoy the scenery.

But after the problem was solved, Mooshan's contracting rights suddenly became lively, and ordinary people had no chance to contract again.

Naturally, Li Muyang didn't get it either.

Li Muyang felt pity every time he thought about this matter.

but……

He looked at the endless peach blossom forest and grinned, revealing his dazzling white teeth.

Smile innocently.

hooho~
Now that no one else knows, only I, Li Muyang, know how to solve the problem, then this entire Taoshan will become my Taoyuan, Li Muyang.

(End of this chapter)