Nowadays, the weather is still a bit cold, but the pitaya fruit planting greenhouse of Jin Hongjun, from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, is warm. According to Jin Hongjun, from July, the pitaya fruits in the greenhouse begin to ripen one after another, and in May of the following year, seven crops of fruit can be produced.
Inside the dragon fruit planting greenhouse of Jin Hongjun
"Most of the pitayas sold in the market are shipped from the south, and the maturity and taste are not as good as those grown here, so they sell very well every year." Jin Hongjun said that pitaya is planted more in the south, but very little in Xinjiang. He said: "We use farmyard manure, and the fruit looks good and tastes better."
The biggest difficulty in "growing southern fruits in the north" is that they are not acclimatized to the local soil and water. In fields of the Xinjiang Corps on the Northwestern border of China, tropical fruits such as pitaya fruit, banana and longan are now grown, which have become the "fruits of wealth" for the local people.
A few years ago, Jin Hongjun rented 5 pitaya greenhouses by chance. In order to allow the plants to bloom and bear fruit on the land on the edge of the desert, he lived in a greenhouse for a long time, observed the growth of fruits, and used the Internet to learn pitaya planting techniques, and often asked experts to impart planting knowledge. Under the careful management of Jin Hongjun, there was a harvest that year.
Tourists picking pitayas
In the greenhouse base, although the weather outside is cold and freezing, the greenhouse is still as warm as spring, full of greenery, and it exudes vigorous vitality. In addition to pitaya fruit, bananas, loquats, plantains, longan, etc. grow freely here, and bougainvillea blooms. The temperature in the greenhouse is 28°C to 30°C all year round, and the warm and humid atmosphere makes you feel like you are in the south.
Source: Chinanews.com
