In the hot summer, watermelon is naturally an excellent anti-summer saint. The originally unremarkable watermelon arrived in the neon country, not only the appearance changed, but also became a good gift. What's going on here? Let's take a look!
It is generally believed that the appearance of watermelon is round, even if there are some novel watermelon varieties, it has not broken the framework of the round appearance. However, in order to facilitate transportation, the square watermelon introduced by Japan to save space has completely broken people's cognition.
The cultivation of square watermelons is not easy.
First of all, you need to make a transparent box, which is a mold of square watermelon molding. The size of the box and the material have certain requirements. It can both shape a watermelon and cannot be broken by a watermelon.
After the mold is made, wait for the small watermelon to grow to the size of the thumb, and then put it into the hole in the mold to grow slowly. The staff also needed to turn over the small watermelon every few days to make sure that its growth position was always in the middle of the mold and did not deviate. The melon that grows like this is a square watermelon.
Plants that were originally free to grow in the field now need to be put into a mold to fix the shape, and after this toss, the watermelon grows uncomfortable, and the yield naturally cannot go up. According to statistics, the successful cultivation of watermelons in this way accounts for about 80% of the planting time.
The process is complicated, the cost increases, and the price of square watermelon is naturally expensive. One sells for around 10,000 yen. If it is a square watermelon with good quality, it will be packaged by the sales staff and sold as a gift, and the price will naturally increase exponentially.
· How does such an expensive watermelon taste?
There is a saying in China that "a twisted melon is not sweet." This sentence is really appropriate for a square watermelon.
The sun is full, the growth is gratifying, and the watermelon can be sweet and sandy. The watermelon, confined to a square mold, did not get enough room to unfold. Farmers also remove plastic formations when they are not yet fully mature. Such a tossed square watermelon, the taste is naturally not comparable to the mature round watermelon. Its cut flesh makes people look at the slightest appetite.
Would you buy such an expensive watermelon for ornamentation?