Chapter 184 Fruit Thinning and Pollination
“Anzi, you didn’t get it too early. If you haven’t eaten it, I asked your second grandma to make it for you.”
When I arrived at Huang Erye’s house, Huang Erye just I thought of asking Zhang An if he had breakfast.
"Second Master, don't bother, our family has already eaten in the morning."
When Mr. Huang found Huang Ming and his son, the group went to their plum field Set off.
Zhang An thinks that fruit thinning is just that. If there are too many fruits on the tree, pick some to reduce the pressure on the branches.
Just like people, when picking things up, don’t pick them too heavy, otherwise you won’t be able to walk very far.
Planting has suddenly emerged in later generations, and many people talk about fruit thinning very profoundly.
Sometimes it’s a rule like this, and sometimes it’s a rule like that.
But no matter what is said or not, or whether the principle is unprincipled, as long as the fruit is thinned, the bad fruit must be picked first.
Then look at the density of the fruit and the location of the fruit, whether on the edge of the branch or below the branch.
In the end, these are all eliminated, and it all depends on the size of the fruit shape.
In a word, admission is based on merit.
While Zhang An was explaining to Mr. Huang’s family, his father and his son, he pulled a tree and started thinning the fruit for them to see.
There were indeed too many green fruits this year. By the time Zhang An finished thinning the fruits, the tree would only have about half of the plums left.
After Zhang An explained all the things that needed attention, he left his grandfather, grandson, father and son to take action on their own.
After all they keep talking about it, why not let them try it themselves.
This is just like reading. Hold the book and read for a long time, and listen to the teacher for a long time with your ears.
It is better to do a few exercises yourself after listening and reading to gain a deeper understanding.
This is the first time for Mr. Huang’s family of three to do such work.
Although Zhang An said so much just now, Huang Erye and Huang Dabiao did not remember many things completely.
On the contrary, young Huang Ming has a good memory and has memorized all the most important points Zhang An said.
But that’s okay. You just learned it, so it doesn’t matter if you can’t remember it.
Zhang An is still here anyway, so if you don’t understand or remember, just ask directly.
After everyone grabbed two plum trees and thinned the fruits, Huang Erye and the other three have basically mastered the essentials.
Anyway, fruit thinning is just that, just watch it.
If it is serious, there are reference answers just like the exam.
It is impossible for everything Zhang An makes to meet the standards.
At noon, Mrs. Huang had already prepared lunch.
Now the old lady ran to the field and called everyone back for lunch.
From morning to now, each of them has only sorted out the progress of three or four fruit trees.
Because the fruit thinning had just started in the morning and they were not very familiar with it, the speed was relatively slow.
And the plum tree in Mr. Huang’s house is big and has many branches.
In all these years, I have never had any real fruit.
The fertility has finally caught up this year, and each of these plum trees looks like it has been suppressed for many years.
The more fruit there is on the tree, the more fruit needs to be picked, which naturally takes more time.
Zhang An's hands were faster and he had fewer trees than the rest of them.
At their rate, there are about ten trees per day.
There are more than 100 plum trees in these two acres, and it is estimated that it will take several days.
At noon Zhang An was there, and Mrs. Huang cooked a lot of dishes, most of which were meat dishes.
There is also a lot of bacon and chicken stew, and we also took out the pork legs that were marinated last year.
"Second Mistress Huang can just cook whatever she likes. It's just like serving wine."
Zhang An looked at the table full of dishes. Mistress Huang was too polite.
"I just made it casually, Xiao An, don't be polite."
Grandma Huang said while placing a few hard dishes in front of Zhang An.
"Xiao An is here to eat. You don't often come to Erye's house for dinner. I want to entertain you today."
Huang Erye smiled and poured some wine for Zhang An. Even though it’s noon, it’s okay to have a drink.
Zhang An picked up a piece of bacon and put it in his mouth, and found that the meat was very delicious.
Although it is smoked bacon, there is still a lot of oil in the meat.
It tastes not dry or dry at all, fat but not greasy, and it doesn’t taste salty at all.
It's different from ordinary bacon, even the bacon smoked by Zhang An's family.
It still tastes a bit dry.
Besides, the bacon is marinated in salt water before being smoked, so even if the bacon is cooked and then fried, it will still have a salty taste.
“Second Master, what are you using to smoke this bacon? Why is it so delicious?”
“It’s smoked using green bar trees and oriental arborvitae. Last year I told you You forgot to chop it all the way up the mountain."
Although Mr. Huang said so, Zhang An still felt something was wrong. He smoked it this way too, so why is there such a big difference?
“That’s not right, ours is also smoked with green bar trees and Platycladus orientalis, but it’s different from the ones you smoked.”
Hearing this, Mr. Huang smiled. , "And do you know that when smoking meat, the fire cannot be very high all the time. You can burn it bigger in the first two days, and then you have to smoke it slowly on a low fire."
"The fire is small. How many days does it take to smoke?”
“Just a few more days. Our bacon is smoked from the time it is cured and put on the shelf until the New Year.”
Many people's bacon, including Zhang An's, usually smokes it for about ten days, and then it's almost ready.
No wonder this smoked meat is delicious, because others make it more carefully and take time.
"Then I will try the same thing when I have bacon this year. This is bacon, and what I usually eat is in vain."
After getting the advice, Zhang An will definitely do this this year. It’s about giving it a try.
“And your bacon doesn’t taste salty yet. How did Master Er marinate it?”
“This is my own recipe for cured pork. "
In the past, Mr. Huang often brought back some mountain goods from the mountains.
Games such as pheasants and hares are generally not available for sale, and their family would definitely be reluctant to eat them all at once.
So most of them are pickled and made into wax chicken and wax rabbit for easy storage.
But after eating too much of the ordinary pickled chicken and rabbit, Mr. Huang felt that it tasted bad.
So I just thought about it by myself, thinking about how to make it delicious.
A lot of pheasants and hares were wasted along the way, which Mistress Huang talked about every day.
It took a long time to finally come up with a satisfactory recipe for cured meat.
Hearing that it was Mr. Huang’s own recipe, Zhang An did not open his mouth to ask any more questions.
But Mr. Huang took the initiative to tell Zhang An the recipe for bacon before he could speak.
"Anzi, please don't go there in the afternoon. Your family still has work to do, and there isn't much left. We can finish it in a few days."
After dinner, Huang Erye said to Zhang An.
The Zhang An family also has something to do today, and they are spending money to find someone to make a living.
He found Zhang An so early in the morning, he was already a little embarrassed.
But no one in my family knew how to do fruit thinning before, so no matter how embarrassed I was, I could only trouble Zhang An to come over.
I originally wanted to ask the old lady to help with the weeding at Zhang An's house, but then there would be no one at home to cook. Now several people in the family are already good at thinning fruits, so there is no need to continue to trouble Zhang An.
Although you are not familiar with it now, you can do it slowly. If you do it more, you will be familiar with it next year.
"Okay, then Second Master, I will go back first. If anything happens, come to me."
Zhang An agreed after thinking about it, and was not polite to Second Master Huang.
There are more than a hundred trees in their plum field, and they will probably be finished in just a few days.
The remaining ones should be used as a training exercise for them.
After Zhang An returned, he did not see his father and mother at home.
Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo had finished their lunch early and were now wearing bamboo hats and hoeing in the melon patch with everyone.
Before Zhang An walked into the field, he found that all the weeds in the watermelon field had been hoeed.
Zhang An was originally quite curious as to why they were so fast.
Only when we got to the field did we realize that it was because someone was helping.
In addition to the people Wang Fang called to weed, there are many people in the field pulling weeds now.
These are the families who raise livestock in the village. Except in the cold winter months, everyone will go outside to cut grass.
So this morning, there were several families in the village who were preparing to go out to cut the grass.
When we walked to the river, the people who were weeding in the melon field started chatting.
I found that the grass in Zhang An’s melon field grew more pleasantly than that in the rapeseed field.
So they simply stopped going to the rape fields and cut grass in Zhang An’s melon fields.
They didn’t even use a sickle to cut the grass that grew so tall.
Instead, the grass was first uprooted, bundled into handfuls, and finally the roots were sawed off with a sickle.
Because everyone is a farmer, the upper part of this kind of grass must be cut off, and the roots buried in the soil are difficult to shovel.
Usually when we hoe the corn fields at home, we first pull out the grass by hand.
Use a hoe to weed again, which is much faster, and you don’t have to worry about the hoe hurting the crop seedlings.
When they returned home carrying the grass on their backs, they met many people who were out mowing grass on the road.
When everyone sees such luxuriant young grass, they will definitely ask where it was cut.
After all, livestock like to eat the green hogweed.
Many people heard that the grass was cut back in Zhang An’s home field.
Moreover, Zhang An’s family has already found many people who are hoeing the grass. If they don’t go there, they may be finished.
So those who were going to mow the grass rushed to Zhang An's melon field carrying baskets on their backs.
In this way, there are more and more people in Zhang An’s melon field.
Wang Fang originally invited seven or eight people, but in the end the number of people doubled.
They pulled it out first, and then everyone weeded very quickly.
There are many people who have already carried a basket home and come back to continue cutting.
What's more, they pulled a pile of grass from the field and sawed it, and then brought the family's horse over to carry it.
Anyone who has cut grass in the countryside knows that many times you have to walk a long way to cut grass.
No one is willing to walk that far carrying such a heavy load of pigweed.
The Zhang An family's nest is right at the entrance of the village, so there is no need to walk far at all.
They all know that the Zhang An family is in a hurry to hoe the grass.
So after each one finished cutting a basket and carried it home, he came back to continue cutting.
Because maybe by tomorrow, the grass in this field will be hoeed.
Just doing this all morning, at least enough to feed the family's livestock for a few days, why not do such a thing.
Zhang An saw that they were quite fast, so he did not go to the fields to help.
Since Mr. Huang’s family is thinning out their fruits, it’s time to thin out the plum trees in their own house.
Maybe because there is too much spring water, there are many more fruits hanging on this plum tree than in Mr. Huang’s house.
There are many branches on the plum tree that are bent due to too many plums.
When Zhang An was thinning the plum trees, many people were watching.
They all didn't understand why Zhang An had to pick off so many unripe plums when the plum tree was bearing well.
Because in their cognition, it’s just crops or whatever, the more they produce, the better.
Zhang An smiled and slowly explained to them the benefits of doing so.
Everyone realized that there were so many fruits inside after they were planted.
This is like the principle that 33 to 9 is not as good as 2510.
The next day, Zhang An found his second uncle and third uncle's home.
"Second uncle, third uncle, the kiwi fruits planted at home need to be pollinated."
Yesterday he ran to the foot of Qing to take a look. Those kiwi fruits that were planted are now It's already blooming.
This kiwi fruit is different from other fruit trees in that it requires artificial pollination.
Even though there are various bees, butterflies and other insects during this period, the pollination rate is still not high.
In the end, the result rate was not ideal and the output was not high.
So in order to increase the pollination rate, it is still necessary to carry out artificial pollination.
Zhang An told them this when they first planted the sheep peaches.
"Then let's not do anything else first, but first do the pollination method Xiao An said."
Although there is work at home during this period, it is not something that you need to do in a hurry. You can put it aside first.
Moreover, the flowering period of kiwi fruit is short, so we must hurry up.
Then Zhang An asked Zhang Tie to call Zhang Laosan over, and their family also planted several acres of land.
So in order to save trouble, Zhang An planned to call him over and teach them all together.
Ordinary kiwi fruit will not bear fruit in the first year because it grows too slowly.
But the kiwi saplings selected through space growth are much faster.
It’s just not that exaggerated. Only a few flowers bloomed in the first year.
However, this is already a very good speed, otherwise we would have to wait a few years.
"Anzi, second uncle, third uncle, Zhang Tie said you are looking for me."
"Third brother, the sheep peaches have bloomed in the past two days, I plan to give them to the second uncle and third uncle Let’s talk about pollination, so I’ll call you here. You shouldn’t be busy this year.”
We are all from the village, so if you can help, please help.
And Zhang Laosan bought his seedlings from Zhang An.
When the time comes to the house of Zhang An’s two uncles, the vines will be covered with fruits.
Due to pollination problems, their family did not produce many fruits.
Maybe then he will feel that Zhang An lied to him by giving him crooked information.
"So that's the thing. Even if you have something to do, you have to put it down first. Apart from harvesting the millet, there is nothing more important than this."
As soon as Zhang Laosan heard Zhang An's request Teach them how to pollinate, and even if something happens today, they have to push it forward.
Otherwise, if I go find him alone another day, he may not be available yet.
(End of this chapter)