Jinjiang genuine 68
The light fragrance of tea wafts in the wind, refreshing the heart. Walking in the tea garden that spirals up like stairs, all you see is lush green. The air is exceptionally fresh, and every breath is filled with coolness and freshness, making you feel extremely comfortable.
Fu Yunze followed behind Ye Han and walked sideways along the separate path.
The tea trees here grow very fast, and the row spacing and paths originally reserved seem a bit narrow, so one needs to reach out and touch the newly grown branches of the tea trees from time to time.
He looked closely at the tea tree in front of him, which was more than one meter tall and had grown terminal buds hidden among the branches and leaves. The fresh and rich fragrance of tea lingered in his nose. He couldn't help but take a deep breath and felt like he had come to another paradise.
A very novel experience.
Ye Han came to the seedbed and used the golden finger to check the growth status of the tea seedlings.
Tea Tree Seedling No. 5: "I have grown up. Look, there are tender buds growing on the top of my head, but you can't pick them now. Wait until I grow a little bit longer."
Ye Han moved closer to observe carefully, and with his slender white fingertips he moved the plump leaves, and sure enough, he saw a small terminal bud between two leaves.
It is so small, about the same size as a grain of rice, that you can't see it at all without careful observation. It has just sprouted and has not yet unfolded and turned green. It is emitting a slightly white color and is very tender.
Very cute.
I think of the whimpering little sounds of the tea tree seedlings when I first arrived, and I was worried that they would die. Now they have grown to be fifty centimeters tall, with seven or eight branches stretching out, forming a small shrub-like cluster with bright green branches.
Looking at its lively appearance, Ye Han couldn't help but smile.
She used the Gold Finger on another tea tree.
Tea Tree Seedling No. 6: "I don't want to stay in the seedbed anymore. It's so embarrassing. I'm a big tea tree. Move me away!"
Unfortunately, its soft and tender baby voice betrayed it. Although it sounded fierce, it was still only half a year old.
It's still a tea tree seedling and has nothing to do with a big tea tree.
Ye Han touched its leaves and lowered his voice: "Don't worry, I will move you away immediately."
Tea Tree Seedling No. 6 snorted and said, "...That's more like it."
After checking their conditions one after another, Ye Han's sight fell on tea tree seedling No. 3.
It is seven or eight centimeters taller than the other seedlings, with more than ten branches growing from the base. It is the strongest among them and is rated S grade.
However, these branches have only grown for a few months, the leaves are light green, and the branches are very slender. Compared with the 8-year-old tea trees, the color and thickness are completely different.
Tea Tree Seedling No. 3: "Do you want to pick tea? In consideration of your careful care for us, I allow you to pick my new buds, but only a few at the top to avoid affecting future development."
The serious voice carried the calmness of an adult, but considering the speaker's age, it was really hilarious.
Ye Han couldn't help but bend his almond eyes, and said with a smile: "We won't pick them this year. At least wait until next year to pick them."
After hearing this, Tea Tree Seedling No. 3 said in a steady, baby voice, "Well, thank you."
puff.
Ye Han was mesmerized by its cuteness; the contrast was truly irresistible.
As expected of an S-grade tea tree seedling, how did she develop such a cute and calm personality?
With a smile on his face, Ye Han half-knelt down and counted its tender buds. There were indeed quite a few of them, and they were developing very well.
Fu Yunze came to her side, looked at the smile in the girl's eyes, and then looked at the tall tea seedlings. He raised his thin lips slightly, and rolled up his sleeves with his slender fingers: "Do you need help?"
"No, we can just wait for the tea farmers to come and transplant them over."
Ye Han looked at the other person's handsome features and calm demeanor, and for a moment his thoughts wandered, wondering if the other person looked like this when he was a child.
Although he had just started kindergarten, he wore a neat little suit, refused help from others, and dressed himself meticulously.
With this association, it seems that even the remaining sense of distance from the other person has disappeared.
The temperature today was just right. Under Ye Han's instructions, the tea farmers carefully transplanted the 10 tall tea seedlings to the back ridge.
Compared with the ten-year-old tea trees around them, they are obviously much shorter, but they are green and fresh, full of vitality.
The tea farmers plucked the tender buds from the tea trees one by one and discussed with Ye Han the timing and method of picking tea.
Tea farmer: "Our tea trees grow very fast, and the temperature has warmed up this year. We expect the first harvest to begin in 10-12 days. Do you think we should start harvesting right away, or wait until before Qingming Festival to start harvesting together?"
The first harvest at the opening of the garden is the freshest and plumpest top buds or one bud and one leaf that have not yet fully opened (the bud is larger than the leaf). The earlier the harvest, the higher the price. Usually, 50,000 to 60,000 young buds are needed to produce one kilogram of tea, which is a top-grade product. One acre of land can produce less than two or three kilograms.
The tea garden in Huajianji is only 30 acres, which is not large compared with the tea gardens of thousands of acres, and the amount of first-picked tea is relatively small.
In order to maintain the taste of the tea, several processes such as spreading, withering, sorting, and drying must be carried out immediately after picking to prevent the loss of freshness. At the same time, during the production process, the hired tea workers and withering masters must be of high quality to ensure that every step is close to perfection.
Only in this way can we obtain the highest quality first-grade tea.
But when you calculate it this way, the cost is definitely not low.
Especially when the total output of tea is only a few dozen kilograms, the unit price is even higher.
Dongling White Tea is not one of the top ten famous teas, and its price level is more acceptable to the general public.
Locally, you can drink pre-rain or even pre-Qingming special tea for 500 yuan per kilogram, which is high enough for an average family. As for high-end tea, only a small number of discerning old tea drinkers will buy it. Those who are more particular about quality will directly buy famous teas such as West Lake Longjing and Dongting Biluochun.
Therefore, the positioning of Dongling White Tea as a high-end tea is a bit awkward, neither high nor low, and its overall sales volume is average. Only old tea brands with large output and local to W City, such as Fengling Group, will sell them in unified packaging. Others are sold in tea rooms in groups of three or two, or sold to familiar tea drinkers.
Tea farmers think it would be better to let the tender buds of the first picking period grow a little longer, and wait until one of them grows into tender leaves, and then pick and fry them together before Qingming Festival, which can save a lot of manpower and cost.
Of course, it all depends on the director's opinion.
Ye Han was very confident in his tea garden. The quality of the tea trees was excellent, and it would be a waste if they were not picked. So he smiled and said, "Let's arrange the first picking first."
Tea picking is still mainly done manually. A skilled worker can pick 3-5 jin of top buds or 30-40 jin of buds and leaves a day. The former requires great precision, and must be picked frequently, cleanly, and without omissions, so that the buds and leaves are in clusters of uniform size. ①
When picking, you should carry the tea by hand and place it gently. The picked buds and leaves should be placed in bamboo baskets to prevent gravity from squeezing them, ensuring the best quality of the tea. The picking standards are extremely high.
After discussing with the tea farmers, Ye Han planned to hire 10 tea workers with rich tea picking experience to do the initial tea picking; and then hire another 20 tea workers, a total of 30 tea workers, to pick the Mingqian and Yuqian tea.
She will set a higher price, but the tea picking technique must be standard and skilled, and the picking process must be detailed enough to ensure that no tea is missed and no tea trees are damaged.
Tea before the Qingming Festival is very expensive. Tea picking usually takes place between 7 and 11 in the morning. The income for half a day can reach more than 300 yuan, while the income for tea before the rain drops to more than 200 yuan. The tea leaves after that are picked more casually, and sometimes only more than 100 yuan can be earned after a busy day.
Therefore, March and April are the busiest and most profitable months for tea workers, so skilled workers are requested to make reservations in advance.
The price Ye Han offered was 400-450 yuan per day. The price fluctuated depending on the number of fruits picked and was more than 20% higher than the market price.
The tea farmers soon contacted skilled workers with more than ten years of experience. They had standard tea picking postures, fast speeds and high efficiency. They only had to wait for the tea gardens to reach harvesting standards before picking.
As for the subsequent operation steps, Mr. Feng, the owner of the teahouse, said that he has a full set of machines and equipment, and the masters are all experienced masters, so you can go to him.
Ye Han also thought it was a good idea. The two places were very close, so transportation would be very convenient.
Although she could set up a greenhouse and introduce various equipment, she was not familiar with the various processing processes as it was her first time. It would be a pity if the quality did not meet her expectations.
It’s better to familiarize yourself with the process first.
You can then pay according to the market price.
Boss Feng asked her the time: "When will you start?"
Ye Han thought for a moment and said, "About March 17 or 18."
Boss Feng was slightly surprised: "You are mining so early?"
His tea garden starts working around March 22nd to 24th and lasts until mid-April. The tea is picked together before the Qingming Festival without any distinction between the first and last picking. Then before the rain, most of the spring tea is picked in these two waves.
Ye Han smiled and said, "I plan to pick them first."
Boss Feng was stunned when he heard this.
Still picking separately?
No way, weren’t the tea trees transplanted there in November last year?
After a cold winter, the transplanted tea trees have probably just adapted to the new environment. Now that the temperature has just warmed up, how many terminal buds and tender buds can they grow?
Based on his experience in transplanting and cuttings in previous years, the yield of tea trees in Huajianji will definitely be affected this year, and may be only two-thirds of that in Gong Bai's.
A 30-mu tea garden can probably only produce 40 to 50 kilograms of fine tea. Is it necessary to hire tea workers to pick the tea and carry out a series of processing?
The cost is simply too high.
He is reluctant to give up his 60 mu tea garden. The cost of picking the first kilogram of tea is several hundred yuan, and the unit price must be at least 1,000-1,500 yuan.
At this price, many people would not choose local tea like Dongling White Tea.
But Boss Feng naturally wouldn't say it out loud.
Maybe Director Ye is very wealthy and he kept some for himself or gave it to relatives and friends.
After planning all matters one by one, Ye Han gave two more drops of nutrient solution to the tea trees when irrigating, hoping that they would work hard to grow strong buds.
At that time, you can only pick the tender shoots on the top and the upper middle part, leaving the ones on the sides and below to continue to develop so as not to affect their growth.
Although the investment in tea trees is large, the annual output is not low, so there is no need to rush.
The tea tree seedlings were absorbing the nutrient solution in the water with a "sizzling" sound. When they were moved into the tea garden, they found that they were much smaller than the adult tea trees next to them, so they grew desperately in an effort to become taller.
However, other tea trees are not to be outdone.
Tea trees aged 8-10 years are in their prime, and their water absorption capacity is much stronger than that of tea seedlings. They can produce up to forty or fifty branches, each of which has more than a dozen buds, and some even have more than twenty, which is twice as many as tea trees in other tea gardens.
Of course, they have grown much taller, filling the gaps next to them and becoming so lush that they have become a bush of their own. It is expected that the density will have to be re-planned by next spring.
Ye Han finished irrigating the plants with the nutrient solution and just before leaving he overheard the conversation among the tea tree seedlings.
Tea tree seedling No. 5 felt extremely aggrieved: "Wow, I am also trying hard to grow, why am I not as tall as them? The branches are almost blocking me QAQ"
Tea tree seedling No. 6 also wilted: "I'm not a big tea tree! I'm so short, wuwawawa——"
The calm tea tree seedling No. 3 is comforting the other seedlings: "Don't worry, we will grow up."
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Ye Han couldn't help laughing, and couldn't help but touch the leaf of No. 5: "You are only half a year old, and you have grown very tall. When you are 8 years old, you will be taller than them."
Tea Tree Seedling No. 5 stopped sobbing: "Really?"
Ye Han: “Of course it’s true.”
She was not lying. The tea trees that had grown up in Huajianji were definitely more lush than those that were transplanted halfway.
Pushing aside the branches above its head, tea tree seedling No. 5 bathed in the not-so-strong sunlight and soon became happy.
Ye Han continued to look at No. 6: "You will be a big tea tree next year, I promise."
Tea Tree Seedling No. 6 rubbed her fingertips with a branch: "Humph, words are not enough, let's make a pinky promise as proof."
"Okay." Ye Han smiled and hooked his little finger on its branch and shook it, fulfilling his promise.
Tea tree seedling No. 6 shook its leaves and was clearly motivated.
Tea Tree Seedling No. 3 said in a calm tone: "Thank you for comforting them."
"You're welcome." Ye Han's eyes curved, and she thought the tree's serious look was very cute, so she squatted down and looked at the 60-centimeter-tall tea tree. It was obviously such a small tree, and the voice was still very childish -
She stroked the leaves with her fingertips, and now the characteristics of Dongling White Tea were revealed. The new leaves were light green and white, very beautiful.
Tea Tree Seedling No. 3 trembled sensitively but said nothing.
Good boy.
Ye Han smiled in her almond-shaped eyes, but immediately withdrew her hand and left the tea garden with light steps.
After this period of cultivation, Darwin orchid, Black Beauty Paphiopedilum, Feiyun Paphiopedilum, Tea Tree Seedling No. 3 and Strelitzia reginae have all reached the standards of S-level plants.
Among the peach blossoms planted last month, the best quality peach trees, such as the weeping peach and the crimson peach, as well as several peony and rose varieties all reached grade A. Together with the previous 18 grade A plants, there is still 89‰ to complete the 350‰ task.
The task of introducing 200 species and 3,000 flowers has been completed about half, and more flowers need to be introduced.
Ye Han is going to L City to introduce rare varieties of peonies.
It is often said that 'Luoyang peonies are the best in the world'. The peonies produced there always win first place in international competitions and various awards. It is a good idea to import them from there.
She had already searched for the location of the relevant breeding centers in advance and also consulted on the prices. What she needs to do now is to select flowers with good appearance and introduce several "Peony King" plants that are more than 30 years old to create a special King of Flowers viewing area.
Of course, this is just a concept at the moment and we need to see it in person for details.
These large peony flowers are priced per plant, and some plants are used as the signature plants of the flower base and may not be sold easily, so careful negotiations will be needed when the time comes.
L City is a certain distance away from W City, but the domestic transportation is relatively convenient, and a direct flight only takes hours. Ye Han planned 5 days, which was enough time to explore the cultivation center and the flower base.
Wang Yun booked a first-class flight for the morning of the next day. Ye Han had just arranged the affairs in the garden during these two days, checked the condition of the plants, and configured the nutrient solution for automatic watering.
The Darwin orchids and Paphiopedilums ended their flowering period around mid-February, but their pollen had already been stored in the laboratory.
The team led by Dr. Yu has overcome the difficulties of low-temperature preservation of pollen, low probability of parental pollination, and sterile sowing in two months. They are currently cultivating seedlings in a sterile room. After the seedlings grow out, they will test the survival rate and conduct genetic sequencing.
If the survival rate remains at a high level and the genes perfectly inherit the characteristics of the parents, it means that there is hope of solving the difficulties of artificial breeding; if the breeding probability is low, it is necessary to continue to consider other methods such as test tube flowering hybrid breeding technology.
But they can still reproduce.
It’s just difficult and mass cultivation is not possible for the time being.
This is good enough.
After hearing about Dr. Yu's results, Ye Han felt relieved, otherwise she would not be able to explain to Darwin Lan.
Every time she used the golden finger, the other party would repeat the same question: "Why did it evolve into this form?" If this continued, she was really worried that the orchid would have mental problems.
The Paphiopedilum is very cute, with the pocket at the bottom full of pollen. It's a pity to waste so much pollen, and she doesn't want such a cute orchid to become an endangered species.
If the pollination and reproduction problems can be solved, not only will the diversity of species be maintained, but for Ye Han, half of the task of "saving 8 endangered plants and allowing them to reproduce naturally" can also be completed.
So she has been paying attention to this aspect, hoping to make a breakthrough soon.
Ancient tree area.
Before leaving, Ye Han went to check the condition of the peach tree as usual.
After nine months of rescue, this ancient tree, which had experienced more than 400 years of wind and rain and had half of its trunk broken from the base, has now fully recovered. Its dead branches have fallen off and it is reborn, its leaves are green, and it no longer looks dry and decayed as before.
Especially the broken parts, which have completely grown back under the support of the bracket and the irrigation of plant nutrient solution. After a while, the bracket can be removed and the huge twisted branches and the full interior can be supported by itself.
By then, it will be a national second-class ancient tree with luxuriant branches, huge crown and more than 400 years of age!
Instead of the peach tree that was about to die and was almost abandoned by the ancient tree management department.
There is a world of difference between the two.
When people from the ancient tree management department heard the news and came to inspect, they were all quite shocked.
Gao Yu, in particular, had initially provided technical assistance for the peach tree, and later came to investigate when the ancient osmanthus tree was introduced. He watched helplessly as this ancient tree, which was old and broken beyond repair, gradually became what it is today.
It can be called a miracle in the history of ancient tree protection!
Several other experts are responsible for different geographical areas and do not know much about the ancient tree.
However, these ancient and famous trees have information files, and specialists will record their growth status every once in a while, so we all got photo information.
Everyone was stunned for a moment.
They looked at the photos taken before the rescue, then looked up at the peach tree in front of them. Everyone felt unbelievable.
Is this really the original peach tree? !
If you hadn't seen the photo, no one would have thought that this tree in front of you would be the old tree with a broken trunk, carbonized base, half dead, and exuding a rotten smell.
And now, like a peach tree in its prime, it can live another 500 years.
Someone subconsciously checked the information: "Peach tree, more than 400 years old, ancient tree protection number..."
That's right.
That's it!!
Oh my god, how did you do that?!
Several experts turned their attention to Ye Han, and it was said that it was this young director who came to the rescue.
Not only this one, but also that ancient osmanthus tree.
Ye Han was soon surrounded by a crowd of experts. These experts had changed their usual dignified expressions, and everyone's face was filled with eagerness and excitement, making it almost difficult for her to cope.
Finally, this matter was successfully published on the most influential local public account in W City, causing a heated discussion; Ye Han was also invited to become a special consultant for the ancient tree management department, and the various applications and procedures for introducing trees will undoubtedly be more convenient in the future.
At this time, Ye Han was surprised to find that light pink buds had grown on some branches of the peach tree.
Earlier than the peach trees in the peach blossom forest.
The peach tree began to hum: "Humph, I told you long ago that the peach tree will bloom this year!"
Note ①: The requirements for tea picking are extracted from the Internet.
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