The first batch of saplings cultivated by Julu have grown up, and the branches were cut and planted in early July. By August, the small branches that initially grew quickly had grown to the height of half a person.

When it grew to this extent, Li Mengxi felt that it could be transplanted.

However, it is not clear when transplanted saplings have the highest survival rate, whether when they grow to half a person's height or when they grow to about one person's height.

So, it's best to test it.

Julu has a large-scale tree planting project. If the tree survival rate is just one or two points higher, there will be tens of thousands more trees in the entire territory.

For the entire tree planting plan, it is necessary to maximize efficiency.

The test began, and Li Mengxi made the following arrangements——

Now the saplings are mainly poplar saplings. The poplar saplings have grown to half a person's height. Li Mengxi ordered 300 poplar saplings to be dug up and found a piece of land to plant them.

After a few days, when the saplings have grown another inch, dig out another 300 trees and find some ground to plant them.

And so on.

According to this method, after half a year, compare the survival rates, and then you will be able to know how high the saplings have grown and when it is the best time to transplant.

As the saying goes, when a tree is moved, it will die, but when people move it, it will live. In addition to the difficulty of cultivating saplings, the mortality rate during transplantation is also high. Therefore, if the optimal transplantation time can be determined, the efficiency of tree planting can be directly increased by 10 to 20%.

There are 83 acres of tree nursery fields outside Julu City, and more than 58,000 seedlings have been cultivated in the fields. This is only the number cultivated in just two months. The efficiency of large-scale seedling cultivation is really terrifying.

Among the 58,000 saplings, 80% are poplars and the rest are other trees.

Among the remaining 20%, some were cut from branches and planted with seeds. Most of the ones planted in the fields have sprouted seedlings.

As I was walking in the nursery field, I saw two rows of poplar trees in front of me that had grown as tall as a person. The poplar saplings were thin, long, and extremely tall.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but stop and take a look.

An official from the Ministry of Agriculture on the side came up and explained to Li Mengxi that these rows of poplar trees grew faster if some poplar bud sap was sprinkled on them every now and then.

The poplar bud juice mentioned by officials of the Ministry of Agriculture is actually auxin. The name auxin may be difficult to understand, so officials of the Ministry of Agriculture refer to it as poplar buds.

The auxin extracted from more than ten kilograms of tree buds is only enough to plant half an acre of land. To collect tree buds, a person has to climb up and down and work hard for a day to break off a small handful of tree buds. Ten kilograms of tree buds cost several hundred

It takes a day's work to collect enough. Auxin is good, but the cost is too high, so it can only be used to cultivate seedlings, and you will lose money if you use it elsewhere.

Li Mengxi looked at the saplings that were twice as tall as other saplings and admired in his heart that the auxin was really magical.

Poplar trees are actually not very cost-effective. The best place to use auxin is on ginseng. It takes ten years for ginseng to grow to the size of a finger. If you spray some auxin, it will grow to the size of a radish in one year.

This is the most cost-effective method of using growth hormone that Li Mengxi thought of.

I asked military doctor Tian Bu and others if they had grown ginseng, and asked if anyone had ever grown ginseng. When asked, Tian Bu and others looked like they had seen a ghost.

The army has dried ginseng, but not ginseng seeds, so ginseng cannot be grown.

However, if you are targeted by Li Mengxi, you will not be able to escape. Sooner or later, a ginseng the size of a radish will be grown.

Walking to the mulberry seedling field, the small mulberry seedlings in the field are tall and thin, with big leaves, like green grass.

In the entire seedling industry, the best use of limited auxin is here. All the tree buds collected, all the auxin extracted, except for the auxin soaked a little when cutting the branches, the rest is sprinkled.

On the mulberry seedlings.

Among ordinary trees, poplar trees grow relatively quickly, while mulberry trees grow slowly. With the blessing of auxin, mulberry seedlings can barely keep up with the growth rate of poplar trees.

There are mulberry trees at one end of the field and poplar trees at the other end. The poplar saplings are waist high and the mulberry saplings are as high as the legs.

If in the comparison between mulberry seedlings and poplar trees, the effect of auxin is not obvious enough, if we go further, there are half an acre of mulberry seedlings that have not been sprinkled with auxin, and the seedlings that have been sprinkled with auxin on the side are already as high as the legs.

, the leaves are as big as copper coins, and the unsown seedlings are less than knee high and as thin as tachyons.

With the powerful tool of auxin, the growth rate of seedlings can be increased several times, which makes the cultivation efficiency of precious mulberry seedlings in Julu doubled.

In the seedling field, Li Mengxi also saw seedlings of peach trees, plums, jujube trees, and various fruit trees.

In the seedling state of fruit trees, which had no flowers, no fruits, and no characteristics, Li Mengxi did not recognize any fruit trees.

The officials from the Ministry of Agriculture followed and kept talking about the precious seedlings. Li Mengxi had to listen and nod. In order to recognize the efforts of others and to inspire people's morale, Li Mengxi had to think of words to praise others.

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As the first batch of seedlings grew to a size that could be transplanted, Julu's tree planting business took off.

The tree-planting order was once again issued to various villages and towns, and many seedlings were also sent.

The campers got the seedlings, and the first place they planted them was the easy-to-plant places beside the wells behind the eaves of the house. As more and more seedlings were delivered, the seedlings began to be planted farther and farther away, and finally they were planted

Village, planted along the roadside of Liantian.

The giant deer trees will definitely see a surge in their numbers, this is inevitable.

For such a small thing as planting trees, only Julu in the world can implement the tree planting plan. No matter where else, even if they want to implement it, they will definitely not be able to implement it. There is no difficulty in planting trees, the difficulty lies in the organization.

Question, can trees be planted efficiently on a large scale in ordinary rural areas?

The answer is no.

Trees can be grown by planting one or two in your own yard, but if you want to plant many, that's a different story.

Trees cannot be planted in fields, they can only be planted in wasteland. The problem lies in wasteland. It is not your own house or your own field. Since it is wasteland, the private nature of such places is not strong. In places where the private nature is not strong,

What is grown locally cannot be kept.

In ordinary rural areas, if someone plants a few trees on the roadside and fails to plant them, people passing by will break the trees with their hands, shake the trees to death with their hands, or let sheep eat the trees to death. This is not an accidental behavior, but

It is a universal behavior that must exist everywhere.

Those who broke the tree or shook it to death were certainly out of luck and looked down upon others, but the most fundamental reasons were that the first was the natural disadvantage of the tree being private enough, and the second was organizational factors.

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Ordinarily in the countryside, tree planters plant trees that have nothing to do with others and are an eyesore to others, so they will be broken down.

But now in Julu, collectivization has been initially implemented. The collective organizational method means that everything in the village belongs to everyone in the village. Every tree planted on the roadside in the village belongs to everyone in the village.

Personally related.

This is why it is difficult to implement tree planting on a large scale all over the world but only Giant Deer can do it.

Let every village plant trees in all the vacant areas, and plant trees on both sides of every bare road. This seemingly simple thing is impossible to achieve anywhere else in the world except Julu.

After the saplings gradually grew up and a large number of saplings were distributed everywhere, within a few days, a mysterious conflict occurred over the saplings.

The cause of the conflict is this. There are two adjacent villages. The two villages are close to each other and connected by a small road in the middle. Saplings were distributed. Village A planted trees along the road, and Village B also planted trees along the road. After the trees were planted,

As a result, one night later, people in Village A discovered that the tree planted in their own village was missing, and they suspected that Village B had stolen it.

As a result, Village B stole it, and Village B dug up the trees from Village A and planted them in their own village. This led to a conflict between the two sides, which caused a huge commotion.

It's incredible that just a few saplings, no taller than a human being, can cause conflicts.

From a bad point of view, the order in the countryside is still insufficient. From a good point of view, there are two villages. One steals saplings and the other cherishes his own saplings. If a sapling is lost, he will find it immediately and work hard to find it.

From this, it is enough to show that the saplings are valued by the villagers and are cared about by the villagers.

When all the villagers are paying attention to their own trees, and the guards in the village will not say who will secretly kill the tree out of jealousy, there will be no internal friction, and due to various factors, the great cause of tree planting will inevitably be destroyed.

If it succeeds, Julu can really meet Li Mengxi's expectations. It can really plant big shading trees on both sides of all the bare roads. It can really be true that after the tree year, the land will be full of mulberries.

This is why whether a tree planting plan can be implemented on a large scale has a huge relationship with organization.
Chapter completed!