Super Orchard

Chapter 355 Passion Fruit Flower
The newly-built greenhouses in Jinquan Orchard are all small ones covering an area of ​​[-] mu. The greenhouses of this size are the easiest and fastest to build.

However, the project volume is really too big, a total of [-] acres of greenhouses, a full [-] need to be built, Wei Long is busy every day without touching the ground to rush work.

Shen Yangguang has also been to the construction site several times. He originally planned to complete part of the greenhouse before the arrival of midsummer in July, so that the employees could go in and plant fruit trees.

Because in the midsummer of July, the temperature is as high as [-] to [-] degrees, and fruit trees planted at this temperature will already be steamed to death, so basically no one will plant fruit trees in July and August.

After seeing the construction progress on the site, combined with what Wei Long said, Shen Yangguang decided not to rush to plant fruit trees before midsummer, but to wait until autumn when all the greenhouses were built before planting fruit trees. It is necessary to plant several fruit trees that do not need to be covered with greenhouses.

These kinds of fruit trees have a total area of ​​nearly [-] mu, and planting them is also a huge project. Shen Yangguang was chatting with Wei Long at the construction site next to the fruit trees. After receiving a call, he immediately drove the car to the western orchard excitedly. drive away.

The western orchard is a long strip with a road in the middle, and there are greenhouses for planting fruit trees on both sides. The westernmost end of the northern side of the greenhouse is the miracle fruit, and the east side of the miracle fruit is passion fruit. Shen Guangguang drove all the way He stopped directly at the entrance of the Passion Fruit Orchard, and walked in quickly.

Now all the orchards are planting fruit trees, and most of the employees in the western orchards have also been dispatched to help. Only Wang Chunmei and a few people stay on duty to take care of the various greenhouses.

Seeing Shen Yangguang coming, Wang Chunmei quickly led her to the passion fruit tree and pointed to a small purple flower on the tree.

The petals of this flower are all purple, and there are long white inflorescences and yellow stamens inside. The combination of several colors is very beautiful. These flowers are the flowers of the passion fruit tree.

So far, there are more than 20 kinds of fruit trees in the western orchard. Except for the miracle fruit, which is still silent, all the other fruit trees including passion fruit have begun to enter the stage of flowering and fruiting.

Passion fruit is an autumn fruit, and the flowering period is generally between May and July, but some varieties will bloom earlier than April.

Passion fruit also blooms in batches. Starting from April and May every year, a total of five or six batches of flowers can be bloomed, and the interval between each batch of flowers is about 20 days.

After each batch of flowers blooms, if the pollination is good, it will start to bear fruit. Therefore, the fruit trees of this kind of fruit tree also bear fruit in batches, basically starting from July to September.

Passion fruit planting is very simple, and the yield per mu is also very large, but there is a fatal shortcoming, that is, this kind of fruit tree is not easy to spread pollen. For example, if someone planted several passion fruit plants on the balcony, almost all of them only bloomed but did not bear fruit. Because the fruit trees have too few plants, the natural pollination is poor, so they cannot bear fruit.

For example, 120 acres of passion fruit are planted in Jinquan Orchard. Growing so many plants together can greatly improve the effect of natural pollination, but even so, this kind of fruit tree is still prone to poor pollination.

At present, most of the passion fruit in China belong to one of two varieties. According to the flower color, one is the purple variety and the other is the yellow variety.

Among them, the pollination of the purple variety is better, and the pollen can be spread by insects, etc. If it is a yellow variety, it is extremely troublesome, because the stamens of this passion fruit are very special, and the distance between the stamen and pistil is very far, so it needs to be cross-flowered Pollination, that is to say, cannot complete its own pollination process under natural conditions, but it is difficult to ensure the efficiency of pollination by insects, so artificial pollination is required.

There are two main methods of artificial pollination. The first method is to use a brush to evenly spread pollen on the three stigmas of the pistil. This method of pollination is relatively simple, but the efficiency is relatively low.

The second method is to use tweezers to collect the pollen sacs on the stamens and put them in a clean container, then add water to make the pollen blend into the water, and then use a watering can to spray the pollen on the stigma of the pistil. The first one is much faster, but the effect is also slightly weaker.

There is another point to pay attention to during artificial pollination, that is, the flowering time of passion fruit is basically around [-] o'clock in the morning every day, so artificial pollination should be carried out in time during this time period to ensure that the pollination work must be completed in the afternoon.

The pollination of golden passion fruit is so complicated and requires a lot of manpower and material resources. Although the price of golden passion fruit is much more expensive than the purple variety, in Shen Yangguang's view, the extra price is not directly proportional to the labor cost .

Furthermore, Shen Yangguang has the energy of the green ball in his hands. Whether it is purple passion fruit or golden passion fruit, it will be extremely delicious when ripe, and the price is also extremely expensive. In this case, the original variety of passion fruit The difference is not so obvious.

So when choosing the passion fruit variety, Shen Yangguang directly chose the purple passion fruit that can be pollinated naturally, which saves a lot of manpower for artificial pollination.

Passion fruit juice tastes very good, with the aroma of hundreds of common fruits, but this fruit is not too common in the domestic market, and the annual sales are only average. Therefore, there is only one greenhouse in Jinquan Orchard. 120 mu of passion fruit was planted, but this fruit was not planted in the larger southern branch garden.

Similarly, the taste of miracle fruit is more special. Although it has the ability to sweeten bitter food, it is not a mainstream fruit, so this fruit is not grown in the southern branch garden, where only twelve kinds of market are grown. The most common and best-selling tropical fruit in the world.

After the fruit shops covering the whole country are opened, the tropical fruits in the southern market will be supplied by the southern branch gardens, and the less mainstream fruits such as passion fruit and miracle fruit, which are not sold in large quantities, will still be supplied by the western orchards. Because of the sales volume, these 100 mu of miracle fruit can fully meet the needs of the market, and there is no need to plant too much area.

After staying in the passion fruit orchard for a while, Shen Yangguang came to the mysterious orchard next door. This kind of fruit is the only fruit tree that has not yet blossomed and bear fruit. It will not bloom, and it will have to wait until next year at the earliest, or even the year after the year after.

Among all the fruits in the Golden Spring Orchard, this is the only fruit he has never eaten. Shen Yangguang is full of curiosity and anticipation for this fruit whose name is so mysterious.

(End of this chapter)