Chapter 205 Planting "Purple Sweet Potato" (2)
After being placed there for a few days, the roots of the devil grass, which were originally covered with soil, have now sprouted tender purple buds. This means they have sprouted, which means they can be planted.
Most of the viewers in the live broadcast room had never seen such a magical plant growth process. They did not expect that the rhizome would actually sprout, and they all felt that their views were refreshed.
[I used to think that only seeds could sprout, but I didn't expect that the roots I dug out could also sprout?]
[Or is this actually the fruit of this plant, just buried underground?]
[Really? Look, there are tiny buds sprouting from the surface. They really will grow on their own if you just leave them there. Did Xia Xia really not cast any spells? ? ?]
Xia Tian found a stone knife and cut off the sprouts from the tubers one by one and put them aside. When sowing later, these would become seeds one by one.
"This is not a fruit, it is indeed a rhizome, but it is special." Xia Tian explained while dividing the seedlings.
"These rhizomes are full of starch, which can be converted into energy. Growth and development are the instincts of plants, so I really didn't do anything. I just left it there and it sprouted naturally."
"The next thing we need to do is cut all these small seedlings into pieces." She held up the divided tubers in her hand and showed them to the audience. "We'll keep about three or four seedlings in each piece. If some don't mature, the others can still grow, increasing the survival rate."
That day, Si Ye pulled out a whole vine and brought back dozens of rhizomes. After they sprouted, he cut them open. Xia Tian roughly counted them and found there were about a hundred of them.
There must be some seedlings that cannot survive, and there are probably only seventy or eighty plants that can grow up.
The devil grass has a very tenacious vitality. It is not really a domestic crop like the purple sweet potato. It is a truly self-reliant wild plant. Considering that it may directly occupy the entire back mountain when it grows in the future, this number is already very exaggerated.
After processing the tubers, Xia Tian packed them all in a backpack, took a stone knife and went to the back mountain.
It is just dawn now, which is around six o'clock if converted to Earth time.
In order to prevent the seeds from being dried out directly due to high temperatures, sowing generally needs to be done in the cool mornings or evenings. At this time, the temperature changes little and the water is more easily absorbed by the soil and roots.
Before formal planting, seedlings need to be raised.
Although the rhizome itself has sprouted, it is still uncertain whether it can successfully take root and grow crops after being buried in the soil.
Therefore, in order to save the time cost of replanting in the future, it is necessary to grow seedlings in advance.
Xia Tian picked a shady and ventilated edge of the field, half squatted down, observed the surroundings, and decided to choose this place as the base for seedling cultivation.
She put down the backpack on her shoulder, took out a stone knife, used it as a small shovel to dig a small hole in the ground, put the tubers in one by one, and then filled it with soil.
Because it is seedling cultivation, the seedlings are transplanted as soon as they emerge from the soil, so there is no need to consider the subsequent growth space and soil fertility. The planting can be carried out as densely as possible without affecting the growth, thus saving land.
Just when she was halfway through, Xia Tian heard a familiar voice coming from behind her——
(End of this chapter)
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