Agriculture Idol

Chapter 66 Beauty, do you like sweet peppers? (two)
The gate slowly rolled up, revealing the true face of the sweet pepper plant.

In the greenhouse, on both sides of the road are sweet pepper plants fixed on the pipeline, about as tall as two little Yongge. Walking among them, one feels as if one has entered a tropical rainforest and is surrounded by dense plants.

"Wow! Is this the sweet pepper field?" Brother Xiaoyong looked up and exclaimed, "It's so tall!"

"Yes, the height of an adult sweet pepper plant is about 5 meters." Shi Hongxia said.

"I can already smell the aroma of bell peppers." Li Chengxin shrugged.

Among the tall green plants, red, yellow, and orange bell peppers can be seen here and there.

Brother Xiaoyong pointed to a bunch of big red sweet peppers above and sighed: "This color is really beautiful, very festive, and I will never tire of seeing it!"

Shi Hongxia picked a few sweet peppers that were growing well and handed them to Li Chengxin and Li Chengxin: "Please be sure to try our freshest bell peppers."

Li Chengxin took a red one and held it in his hand: "I will choose this burning red."

Brother Xiaoyong smiled and said, "The burning red is the lyrics of "Heart Color" in your new album. You are good at advertising by taking the opportunity."

As he spoke, Brother Xiaoyong took an orange bell pepper.

The size of the sweet pepper is just big enough to be held in the hand. Under the incandescent light of the greenhouse, the smooth surface reflects the texture of plastic.

The two bit off the sweet pepper in their hands, and the crisp "click" sound was transmitted into the live broadcast room.

[Fresh ingredients, I'm so envious! 】

[I ate it again in the field, I'm used to it...]

[It looks similar to an apple, and I feel that I can buy sweet peppers as fruits in the future. 】

"It's so sweet." Li Chengxin looked at the bitten bell pepper in his hand in disbelief. "It's sweet and juicy, like eating a pear."

Brother Xiaoyong suddenly took out a square white instrument from his pocket.

The sharp-eyed Li Chengxin recognized it at a glance: "Brother Xiaoyong, you actually bought a sweetness tester?"

Brother Xiaoyong nodded and said, "Since it's a sweet pepper, I wondered if I needed to test the sweetness, so I bought it as I passed by the town."

The two of them used the sweetness tester when they were eating bok choy before, and Brother Xiaoyong also used it, so he found a table next to him, put the instrument, squeezed out a small piece of juicy sweet pepper, and dripped the juice on it. The strip area of ​​the sweetness tester.

Soon, the data stabilized, and the displayed sweetness level was "9".

"There is actually 9 degrees?" Li Chengxin compared the comparison table attached to the sweetness tester, "9 degrees are almost as sweet as strawberries!"

Brother Xiaoyong also nodded at the side: "It's really sweet to say that."

Shi Hongxia was also very happy when she saw the test results. The average sweetness of her sweet peppers was 7-9 degrees, but the sweetness of the sweet peppers picked by Brother Xiaoyong was 9 degrees, far exceeding her original expectation.

It is a virtue not to waste food. Brother Xiaoyong picked up the bell pepper he had bitten and continued to eat. He quickly bit through the flesh of the bell pepper, exposing the full seeds inside.

Zhou Hao moved closer to the camera, and saw the section of the sweet pepper bitten out by Brother Xiaoyong. He saw that the flesh of the sweet pepper was very thick.

Noticing the focus of the camera, Shi Hongxia proudly introduced: "One of the reasons why my sweet peppers have thick flesh and sweet taste is that they have been cored during cultivation. The term 'coring' refers to the growing part of the top of the plant. Cutting off allows the plant to provide nutrients to the side branches and leaves, making harvesting easier.

"But for bell peppers, the bell peppers grown on branches are very small, and many of them will be malnourished. The growth of each bell pepper requires a lot of nutrients, so it is best to have the bell peppers grow on the main trunk, which can absorb a lot of nutrients. So. For bell peppers, 'coring' means cutting off the branches and leaving only the trunk."

Thoughtful, Li Chengxin looked up at the five-meter-high sweet pepper grove: "So that's why the sweet peppers here are so tall!"

In addition, Brother Xiaoyong also discovered an advanced place in the cultivation of sweet peppers. He curiously touched the medium at the bottom of the sweet pepper plant: "The structure of this medium is very strange."

The camera pulled down, allowing netizens in the live broadcast room to notice this part.

The culture medium for sweet peppers is divided into three layers, the bottom layer is connected with many pipes, the middle layer shows a soft and elastic texture under the pressure of Brother Xiaoyong, and the top layer is obviously soil.

"What is this layer in the middle?" Brother Xiaoyong was very curious. "It doesn't feel like soil."

Shi Hongxia nodded and said: "Indeed not, this is mineral wool."

"What is mineral wool?" Li Chengxin felt that he could understand every word of this word separately, but it was a bit confusing when combined.It has to be said that as he was exposed to more and more agricultural plantings, he also came into contact with more and more things that he could not understand. In short, he had to supplement his agricultural knowledge like Brother Xiaoyong.

Shi Hongxia removed a piece of mineral wool from a blank space and handed it to Li Chengxin: "Mineral wool is a fiber made of rock and other natural stones. It was originally used as a thermal insulation material for buildings. The use of heat preservation has also been improved in agriculture."

Li Chengxin looked at the mineral wool in his hand, and found that he actually knew this: "Isn't this the insulation material that was placed between the wall panels when building a house? This is used in my houseboat."

Shi Hongxia explained: "Replacing the soil with mineral wool, oxygen can flow smoothly in the mineral wool fibers in a larger space than the soil gap, so as to cultivate stronger roots. In this way, the roots can also absorb more water. , and then cultivate juicy sweet peppers. These are a little bit of technology imported from overseas, which is the basis for making sweet peppers more delicious and suitable for the taste of Chinese people.”

In addition, Li Chengxin also found that each row of bell peppers had a nameplate.

Shi Hongxia also explained that this is the name of the person responsible for the growth and harvest of each row of sweet peppers. They each check the growth and health of the sweet pepper plants they are responsible for every day.

"How to harvest the ripe sweet peppers?" Li Chengxin looked up at the sweet peppers on the top of the plant and asked, "It feels completely out of reach!"

This is also a question asked by many netizens in the live broadcast room.

So the next moment, Shi Hongxia brought bright yellow safety straps, helmets and other things from the office.

The employee next to him pushed in the CNC lifting table.

"This lifting platform is made in Germany." Shi Hongxia said while helping Li Chengxin and Li Chengxin to fix the straps on the lifting platform.

[Using such an advanced thing as a lifting platform! 】

[I thought it was as simple as harvesting pears in a net bag. 】

【rich!boss!They don’t want to buy Lanxiang’s lifting platform but buy German ones…]

[I just want to know how much his sweet peppers sell at such a cost. 】

Following Shi Hongxia's operation, the lifting platform flexibly changed its height and drove smoothly on the road between the sweet pepper fields.

Following the camera, several people seemed to be walking through a sea of ​​bell peppers.

"It feels like driving a mountain bike in the woods. It's so handsome!" Brother Xiaoyong exclaimed. As he followed the crew to a lot of places, he even used a lot more vehicles.

After playing with the lifting platform for a while, Brother Xiaoyong began to look for the round and big bell peppers around him to harvest like Shi Hongxia.

After raising the lifting platform to a high place, Li Chengxin overlooked the spectacular sea of ​​bell peppers. Under the large dark green leaves, bell peppers of various colors were faintly visible.

Not long after, he also spotted small white seven-petaled bell pepper flowers blooming at the top of the bell pepper.

"Isn't this the song 'Red Bell Pepper, if it blooms, sow the seeds into the clear sky'? Speaking of which, the flower language of sweet pepper flowers is 'I will never forget you'."

The harvested sweet peppers, regardless of the color, are carefully put into the trolley that automatically travels between the sweet pepper fields, and the trolley will send the sweet peppers to the automatic selection place.

This kind of operation was something Li Chengxin and the others had never thought of.

"After all, there are too few agricultural laborers, so many of my farms are unmanned machines." Shi Hongxia explained, "These small cars travel by sensing the magnetic belt buried in the concrete, and transport them to the sorting office. After that, through the sensor, the sweet peppers will be distinguished according to size and color."

From behind the glass, Shi Hongxia let Li Chengxin and the netizens in the live broadcast room watch the sorting scene at the sorting office.The sweet peppers are distributed to different outlets one by one on the conveyor belt, which seems to be the feeling of watching an industrial blockbuster.

Then, the real staff at the exit confirms the quality of each sweet pepper one by one again with the naked eye, and picks out the fruits with scars or bad shapes.

Finally, the intact sweet peppers will be bagged and boxed separately and shipped to all parts of the country.

In the end, several people saw Shi Hongxia's sweet pepper brand "Vegi Dream" in the packaging workshop.

[It's actually this brand! 】

【艹色露(艹盘哉), so this is the sweet pepper that costs 20 yuan each! 】

[20 yuan each?This is too sci-fi, right?After watching the live broadcast, I believe the price!I’ll buy two and try them someday]

[I guess, in the next part of cooking, two sweet peppers may not be enough...]

　The brand Vegi Dream (vegetable dream) is real, and the price is also real...

　　
　
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