Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Shi Wen
"Fresh cut branches 20 yuan, potted plants 80 yuan, this year the price of small red fruits has been reduced."
The small red fruit in Yu Youxiang's mouth, the scientific name is North American holly. Every year in December, the fruit turns red and full of branches, which is the new favorite of the new spring flower market in recent years.
Chinese, he has a special affection for red.
In winter, there are only goji bones with green leaves in China, and no plant is full of red fruits with fallen leaves in winter.
In 2004, Yu Youxiang, who works for a horticultural company in Hangzhou, found North American holly from a photo of the Dutch Flower Show and fell in love with it.
At that time, no one in the country knew about this plant.
It took two whole years, from the Netherlands to find out about Japan, and the United States, Yu Youxiang finally knew its name.
Since then, the North American holly has begun to break the ice in China.
1】 100,000 pieces bought 4,000 "chopsticks"
A small red fruit that has only been seen in photos, is it suitable for growing in the country? What is the emphasis on cultivation management?
"To do gardening is to do something that others don't have." This is Yu Youxiang's life creed.
In 2006, without knowing anything about the small red fruit, Yu Youxiang, who was born in the horticultural class, threw 100,000 yuan and imported 4,000 chopstick-sized seedlings from the Netherlands, just the plants on the edge of the photo, and finally saw the living creatures.
Today, North American holly is cultivated in Zhejiang, Shandong, Liaoning, Yunnan and other provinces, with a total area of 10,000 mu, more than half of which is in Weihai.
North American holly is a shrub, not a tree, the seedlings do not grow much in the first year, and can grow fifty centimeters every year after that, and the variety originally imported from the Netherlands at the base is called "Oster", and the highest is not more than 2 meters long.
After that, all the seedlings in China were propagated from the 4,000 "chopsticks" that Yu Youxiang originally introduced from the Netherlands.
However, the cuttings of North American holly are carried out in the summer. Humid and hot Zhejiang, in fact, is not very suitable for its reproduction.
At first, the survival rate of native cuttings was only 20-30%. Yu Youxiang tried for two or three years, and the survival rate has not been able to improve.
2] "Chopsticks" become gold, earning 5 million yuan per year
Zhejiang seedlings are not easy to feed, but those sold to Shandong seedlings, after the local farmers raise up, the survival rate of cuttings is quite high. Moreover, the small red fruit in the north is also much brighter than the oil in the south.
The problem of low plant survival rate and poor fruit quality lies in the high temperature and high humidity environment in Zhejiang in summer.
Yu Youxiang groped for seven or eight years and found a solution for cultivating North American holly in the south.
He planted North American holly in the greenhouse, and the rain-sheltered cultivation can reduce the occurrence of germ diseases, and the fruit surface is smooth. Naturally, it will shine with oil and shine, and its appearance will be higher.
There is a greenhouse for cutting seedlings in the base, and the summer temperature is high, so it is necessary to keep watering outside the greenhouse film to cool down, so that the seedlings can cool down in summer, so that the survival rate of seedlings has increased to 90%.
Long leaves in spring, flowering in summer, deciduous leaves in autumn, hanging fruit in winter, base North American holly, and sales of seedlings have been in place since 2010.
At that time, the price of annual seedlings was 15 yuan per plant. Ten years later, the price fell to 4 yuan / plant, but the nursery still has a profit of 3 yuan / plant.
At the beginning, the annual number of seedlings produced at the base was about 500,000. According to the calculation of making 10 yuan per plant, Yu Youxiang sold seedlings a few years ago, and the annual profit was 5 million yuan.
3】 Little Red Fruit let the farmer exchange it for two suites in the city
In the north, summers are cool, North American holly does not require facility cultivation, and the annual maintenance cost per acre of land is about 5,000 yuan.
The basic farmers who come to buy seedlings are farmers in the northern provinces and high-altitude areas of Yunnan. In those areas, North American holly is grown open-field and has a much lower maintenance cost than in the south.
Now the market is more common, but also the northern fresh cut branch products. Generally, the nursery has buyers to buy, sell to the Yunnan flower market, and then wholesale to Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other cities for retail.
Farmers plant 600-1000 seedlings per mu of land, and there is output in the third year after planting seedlings, and the same tree is cut once every two years, and after conversion, 4,000 fresh cut branches can be cut per mu of land per year.
In previous years, the purchase price of fresh cut branches was 30 yuan / branch, and this year 20 yuan / branch, and the income per mu was 10,000-20,000 yuan. Taking a family farm of 100 acres of land as an example, it is conservatively estimated that the two couples can earn 1 million yuan a year.
Yu Youxiang has a customer in Tai'an, Shandong Province, the couple planted North American holly for 2 years, earned money, and bought two apartments in Tai'an City in the third year.
4] Spray a spray can hang fruit, net red potted plants are coming
Yuhang Trail Mountain, Yu Youxiang's "leap soil agriculture" North American holly base, in fact, the area is only more than 100 acres, in addition to selling seedlings, here is mainly used by the owner to engage in new product research and development.
Meister
In recent years, Yu Youxiang has introduced more than a dozen Varieties of North American Holly from abroad, and the new variety selected and bred is called "Meister", which is smaller and is very suitable for potted plants, and the highest ground plant can only be 1 meter long.
North American holly is an hermaphroditic plant, and if only the female plant is raised that will bear fruit, the next year a single plant will not bear fruit. This is also the reason why for many years, mainly cut branch products have become popular in the market.
This year, Yu Youxiang developed a method that can manually intervene and spray plant growth regulators to promote the results of individual plants. When flowering, domestically raised North American holly, as long as the potion spray, every winter can see the small red fruit.
Now, North American holly also has a suitable potted variety, which can enter the balconies and terraces of thousands of households and become the next net red item of home gardening.
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