Chapter 6 Successful Seedling Cultivation

  The noisy grain selling incident, Jiang Feng was also very helpless, but he had no way to solve it, this wasn't something that could be solved overnight. After the meeting, he returned home and devoted himself to cultivating longan tree seedlings, in his opinion, this was the key to Wolong Village's future development.

  So he went back home, took a hoe and ran to his own land to start preparing for planting. He cultivated the soil, dug holes, then carefully took out the longan tree saplings from his pocket and planted them.

  Looking at the already withered longan tree sapling, he was very satisfied, but he knew that this was only the first step and could not be considered a successful planting. Suddenly, he had an idea, and he concentrated his mind, pulled out his intention, and directed a thread of spiritual energy towards the planted longan tree. Instantly, colorful light radiated from the longan tree sapling. The longan tree sapling was originally unsuitable for survival in this land, but Jiang Feng used his knowledge of biological genetic modification to modify the sapling's gene arrangement with his spiritual energy, making its genes more perfect. He busied himself for over an hour before completing the transformation of this experimental product.

  He was amazed to see that the longan tree saplings seemed to have absorbed enough nutrients and burst forth with astonishing vitality. After a period of time, some prominent buds burst forth on the branches, which was too amazing for him to realize that his divine power had an extremely strong effect on plants, which was indeed an incredible ability, and it was a surprising thing for Jiang Feng.

  For several days after the saplings were planted, Jiang Feng stayed in the ground, closely observing the growth of the longan tree saplings. His efforts paid off, and on the third day, he saw that the buds on the branches had begun to sprout, revealing a hint of green.

  The trial planting of the sapling was undoubtedly successful, but only one strain could not solve the big problem and could not meet the needs of large-scale cultivation. Jiang Feng used his divine consciousness to scan Longfeng from afar and found that the dragon eye fruit trees were sparse on Longfeng, but there were still many. In the following days, he went to Longfeng one by one to transplant those saplings to his own land. Moreover, he used his divine yuan force to genetically modify those saplings. After a week's time, Jiang Feng had planted about 40 or 50 saplings, and the original saplings on Longfeng were already very few. Jiang Feng gave up transplanting, leaving the remaining ones as specimens for nature, which could also be compared with his own cultivated ones in the future.

  He then spent another week using the cut branches for experimentation. He used his divine power to alter the genetic structure of the branches, allowing them to grow roots. After switching between over a dozen different nutrient solutions, the longan tree branch finally grew roots. Using the branches to cultivate seedlings was a success, and there were many of them. All that was left to do now was to convince his old man to give him more land to try planting on.

  When Jiang Feng was busy, Jiang Dajun also went to the field several times. At first, he didn't believe that Jiang Feng could cultivate it successfully. In the face of reality, he had no choice but to believe that those green and oily saplings with a height of one foot had already grown new leaves. He had also eaten this kind of fruit before, which was a rare occurrence. When Jiang Feng proposed large-scale planting of these saplings, he agreed without hesitation. Anyway, there were many grains harvested this year, so even if they didn't plant them this year, it wouldn't matter. If they could cultivate the fruits successfully, he also believed that this kind of fruit had good market prospects.

  The process went very smoothly, and Jiang Feng transplanted the successfully cultivated branches into the ground. Every day, he carefully watered and fertilized them with Jiang Dayuan, meticulously nurturing the new hope.

  The days in Wolong Village are as calm and peaceful as ever, two months have passed, the tree seedlings planted by Jiang Feng have all sprouted leaves, and some of them have even produced flower buds. It seems that it won't be long before they bloom and bear fruit.

  One day, Jiang Feng was taking a nap when he felt someone shaking him awake. "Fengfeng, go take a look, the fruit tree's flowers have fallen," Jiang Dayuan said anxiously, jumping up and down in front of the kang.

  "What's wrong? The flowers have fallen. Has something gone wrong?" Jiang Feng realized the severity of the situation. He quickly got up from the bed and rushed out of the door without even putting on his clothes. Jiang Dayuan also followed closely behind and hurried to the longan fruit experimental field.

  The leaves of the longan tree saplings are growing very well and can be said to be very lush. Although there are many flowers, those mature flower buds have not formed fruit. After blooming for a period of time, they begin to fall off. Jiang Feng looked at these saplings and fell into deep thought, even Jiang Dayuan's calls were unheard.

  What causes the flower buds to fall off? He scanned the seedlings with his divine sense. The seedlings were very lively and there were no pests disturbing them. Jiang Feng had set up a segment of genes during genetic modification, which made the seedlings emit a smell that could avoid pest disturbance.

  "What's going on? Why did the flowers fall?" Jiang Dajun couldn't figure it out and anxiously asked Jiang Feng.

  "Dad, don't worry for now. I'll go take a look at the situation with those plants on Dragon Peak." Jiang Feng came back to his senses and said to Jiang Dayuan.

  "Let's go together," Jiang Dajun said to his son, still having a lingering fear from the last time he went out.

  "It's okay, Dad, I know where it is. You go back first, and I might be late for dinner." Jiang Feng persuaded Jiang Dayuan.

  "Be careful, come back early." Jiang Dajun knew he couldn't help much either, so he didn't bother Jiang Feng and just walked home after reminding him a few words.

  "Don't worry, Dad," said Jiang Feng, turning around and walking towards the mountain. When he arrived at Longfengxia, Jiang Feng looked around and saw no one. With a flicker of his mind, he instantly moved, leaving behind a residual shadow. In an instant, he arrived at the place where the original tree species grew. Jiang Feng used his divine sense to scan the original tree species.

  "It's strange, those transplanted saplings have much better genes than the ones here, but why can't they grow normally? Is it a problem with the surrounding environment?" Jiang Feng stopped scanning and muttered to himself.

  He carefully observed the surrounding environment. Although these seedlings did not grow as well as those in the ground, and their branches and leaves were not as lush, each flower could form fruit.

  "What's going on?" Jiang Feng fell into deep thought again. The fact that the perfectly modified genetic manuscript couldn't produce any results was really frustrating.

  "Is it a matter of competition?" Jiang Feng shifted his perspective to think about the problem, which is a common sense in biology. Between organisms and within each organ, there is always competition.

  Nature is a diversified system, with necessary connections between species. Just like humans, if one function is good, the other will be relatively poor. Maybe the lush branches and leaves hindered the flower buds from continuing to absorb nutrients, causing them to fall off early. Once the reason is found, we need to find a way to solve the problem.

  I think it's because I didn't prune correctly, when I was pruning, I only removed the diseased and dead branches of the seedlings, but didn't deal with those longer flowering branches. Originally, I thought that not pruning the flowering branches would result in more fruit, but things didn't go as planned, the tree's nutrients are limited, so if there are many flowers, they will be smaller and the blooming period shorter; on the other hand, if there are fewer flowers, they will be larger and the blooming period longer. Plants also have their own limits, just like humans do.

  Thinking of this, Jiang Feng instantly appeared in his own yard. He scanned the nutrient supply situation inside the seedlings through his divine sense and carefully observed that indeed, the nutrient supply had become very scarce by the time it reached the flowers, causing the flower buds to drop due to the mismatched combination.

  Jiang Feng ran back home and briefly told Jiang Da Yuan about the situation. The two of them took pruning shears to the field. Under Jiang Feng's guidance, they pruned the extremely lush branches on the seedlings. Although the branches were much sparser than before, Jiang Feng could feel that the nutrient transport within the plant was more reasonable.

  "Alright, Dad, it's fine now." After finishing all this, Jiang Feng let out a sigh of relief. However, Jiang Dajun still looked disbelieving.

  "Hehe, Dad, just observe for a few days and you'll know," said Jiang Feng, pulling Jiang Dayuan back to eat.

  The next day, Jiang Dayuan arrived at the field early. Not seeing the fallen flowers phenomenon again, he felt extremely puzzled. He just cut a few more and sighed: "It seems that not understanding science is not enough, it looks like all these years of farming have been in vain."

  Just as Jiang Feng and his family were trying out the longan fruit, the annual autumn sowing began in Wolong Village. Due to the painful experience of selling grain, the villagers didn't know what to do this year, the harvested grain couldn't be sold at all, many families' granaries were overflowing, and some had nowhere to store them, planting wheat again, that enthusiasm has been severely hit.

  These days, Wolong Village is filled with gloomy clouds, and groups of people are discussing what to plant this year. This phenomenon has been going on for several days, and Jiang Fugui has already reported the situation to the township government. This year, there was a bumper harvest of grain nationwide, and counties like Linshui, which rely mainly on agriculture, have many granaries overflowing with grain. The country is also unable to find a good solution, only calling for local governments to make arrangements according to market demand and reasonably plan this year's farming. Wheat is the country's most fundamental staple food, so it must be planted, but how to solve the problem of farmers selling their grain has not been fundamentally resolved.

  Jixiang Town Party Committee and government are also holding meetings to discuss this year's autumn harvest issue, repeatedly discussing it many times, organizing relevant personnel to conduct research in various places, and consulting with experts from the Municipal Agricultural Bureau, gaining a lot of experience. For example, some places have vegetable agriculture exhibitions, while others have fruit and wood exhibitions. In short, we need to decide on the direction of the exhibition based on our own regional characteristics and market demand.