White collar workers in Ji'nan contract for planting meat plants in the greenhouse.
meaty plants have become the office plant of urban white-collar. Female newspaper reporter Wei Jie photographer Liang Dalei
white peony, rainbow jade, star beauty... These beautiful names are derived from the popular ornamental plants, the flesh. A white collar worker in Ji'nan, Lao Xu, also fell in love with this kind of beaty plant. He rented a big shed and initially only provided a home for them. But when he sent pictures of succulent plants to his friends' circle, many people wanted to buy them, so his meaty business began to take off.
the interest is planted in the soil for more than half time in the shed
11 days before and after 11:30, Lao Xu drove from the unit to the west of Ji'nan, and hurriedly collate the list just received on the weekend. One is only 30 orange Monroe, one is only 2000 ordinary varieties. It needs a single package and then transported. "Meat meat" is easy to damage, so packaging is very demanding. He said that each package was packed in foam plastic boxes, with cotton in it. It sounds like a simple job, even if it takes 5 minutes to calculate according to each tree, then it is 34 hours to complete.
into the sheds of the old Xu, can not help but be a large mini plant, meat toot leaves, small body shape, bright color, really attract eyeballs. "I like raising, so I can't put it in my house. I can only find a place for succulent plants." Lao Xu said that the planting in the shed was his hobby. He got up around five a. m. every weekend in order to get to the West from the east side of Ji'nan only in the absence of traffic jam. The more than 50 km journey back and forth was his concern about the meaty plants.
Lao Xu said that since he got the greenhouse, he has tried to squeeze out two days in addition to the weekend. "You can only move forward with your work and take care of them in your spare time." He said, strictly speaking, seven days a week, three days busy with their work, four days busy planting succulent plants. As there are more and more meaty plants in the shed, Lao Xu often bask some good works in the circle of friends, friends are all in the following message to buy, and friends of friends to buy slowly, the circle is slowly bigger. From October last year, it officially rented the shed, but in a quarter of time, tens of thousands of dollars invested have been returned.
now white-collar women like to buy clothing, shoes, cosmetics and so on from South Korea, and Xu also likes South Korea to buy, but the things he bought are many meaty plants. The more exotic varieties of
are, the higher the price is. Therefore, some domestic and Korean goods that have not yet been cultivated in large quantities have become the object of pursuit. Lao Xu likes to study purchasing agents, selecting some rare varieties in China, and buying them through regular channels to cultivate them. Although it was cold winter months, reporters stayed in the shed for more than half an hour, and already began to sweat. "Planting more meat is very interesting, also very learned, ventilation and light to ensure that the temperature should be kept at about 25 degrees C, the summer is afraid to be 30 degrees, we often light the arm in the ground work." He said that in order to take care of these succulent plants, besides weekend, workdays would also squeeze two days to look after them, and often work for 12 hours.
Lao Xu at ordinary times, weeds, fertilization and other dirty work is their own work, face the Loess back to the sky to clean up these basic "Engineering", do not go to the gym will have a body. But when I saw a plant slowly growing in the greenhouse, the feeling of hardship suddenly dissipated.
Lao Xu, a part-time job because of interest, says that the part-time job is fun, because it doesn't expect to make a living with it, so the expectation of it is completely out of the mind. On the basis of peacetime work, it is a very happy thing to keep up with your hobbies. "It's good to grow and sell. It's also a kind of enjoyment." He said that he had been a half expert in raising meat plants for more than two years, but these experiences were initially paid for. For example, rental housing, land costs, the purchase of meat and so on, all have the risk of capital, and the big head, labor costs have not been included.
asked about the fun of old Xu to breed more meaty plants. He told reporters that in the winter, he did something that had never been done in the past. He had nothing to do around the old community in Ji'nan. The honeycomb coal cinder is also a treasure. "In fact, honeycomb coal slag is very suitable for the growth of multi meaty plants. Every man in a lot of meaty plants, there is always a paper box in the trunk of the vehicle, in order to fit the fertile soil of the meaty plants, such as cinder, brick and river sand at any time." He said that because succulent plants come from tropical deserts, sandy soil is suitable for the growth of succulent plants. But these are all embellishment, because for the soil needed for the whole sheds, the fertile soil is a cup of water, and every time he comes in, he takes a car, a car of six parties, about 2 tons.