The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, Marin didn't know that sweet potatoes have seeds. Not only sweet potatoes have seeds, potatoes have seeds too. However, most farmers do not use seeds to propagate sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Because, after long-term cutting and vegetative propagation, the seeds of sweet potatoes and potatoes have degenerated. Even if the seeds are kept, the germination rate is not high.

Moreover, propagation by seeds is prone to mutations. For example, sweet potato varieties that were originally high-yield can easily mutate into low-yield varieties. However, if vegetative propagation is performed by cutting, the yield and quality can be guaranteed stably.

How to put it, seed reproduction is similar to the marriage of a man and a woman. The child born may resemble a man, a woman, or both, but they inherit the shortcomings of both men and women...

Asexual reproduction is similar to cloning. The cloned offspring are very similar to the mother parent, with the same gender and similar appearance. Of course, human cloning is against morality, but sweet potatoes and potatoes that are reproduced asexually are fine. After all, that's food, and who cares what sweet potatoes and potatoes think?

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In fact, sweet potatoes and potatoes will also bear fruit. It's just that when Marin's parents cleaned up the weeds in the sweet potato field in their previous life, they pinched off the flowers that bloomed by the way.

why? Because flowering and fruiting consume a lot of nutrients for the plant. Let's put it this way, rice blossoms and bears fruit, and finally gathers all the nutrients into the rice, while the rice straw becomes withered and yellow due to the exhaustion of nutrients, and the same is true for wheat...

Many people think that rice is the seed of rice, but it is not. In fact, the rice seed, that is, the little point of the rice grain. As for the rice, it is actually the aggregation of the whole rice nutrition, which is used to provide nutrition for the little point on the chaff.

In other words, the entire rice grain is actually equivalent to the nutrient solution in the medium of the small point on the rice husk, providing enough nutrition for the small point to germinate and grow.

The same is true for wheat. The seeds of wheat grains are actually the inconspicuous little bumps on the top of the sunken strips, which is the core of wheat seeds. The whole wheat grain, like rice, is the nutrient solution in the medium that provides nutrition for the seeds, also called endosperm. In other words, the flour we often eat is actually the endosperm of wheat seeds.

Therefore, planting rice will not grow rice. Rice can only be grown if the husks are planted together. And the point on the rice husk is the real rice seed.

When storing food, you also need to pay attention. If you fiddle or the grains are infested with insects, you may not be able to use them as grain seeds. Because these bugs are chicken thieves, and they specialize in eating the small spikes of rice and the small bumps on wheat grains. If it is done like this, the seed will be considered useless, and it will no longer be able to grow rice and wheat. Therefore, farmers hate this kind of bug very much. Because they gnaw the core part of the rice and wheat seeds specifically, so that the rice and wheat seeds "cut off their children and grandchildren". If this kind of rice and wheat grains that have been plagued by insects are planted, there will be no harvest. It's okay in modern times, but in ancient times, the whole family would starve to death...

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Sweet potatoes are not the same as potatoes, though. Because, for sweet potatoes and potatoes, what people want is not its seeds, but its stems. Therefore, it is okay to not bear fruit.

Moreover, flowering and fruiting will absorb most of the nutrients of the plant, affecting the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes. Therefore, knowledgeable farmers will not allow sweet potatoes and potatoes to bear fruit. Usually when weeding, the flowers are pinched by the way.

Although Ma Lin was a rural child in his previous life, most of them were educated in school. He would only help when the busy farming seasons such as spring plowing and autumn harvest were the most busy (also known as busy). Rural schools also have a special holiday called "busy holiday". That is, during the summer and autumn harvest seasons, children are allowed to go home to help during the holidays.

Because, for the rural areas, rice and wheat are all to be "rushed to harvest", because they are afraid that the rain during the harvest season will cause the crops to rot in the ground. Although children cannot participate in harvesting when they return home, they can help with cooking. In this way, a labor force can be freed to participate in the harvest. In addition, rural teachers,

I also need to take a busy vacation and go home to participate in the harvest. Especially those male teachers, they are the main force doing farm work. Those who really need to take a vacation are actually those rural teachers. When the children go home, at most they help cook, or glean wheat in summer.

Of course, this is a thing of the nineties. Because, at that time, farmers mostly still harvested by hand. After entering the 21st century, harvesters are used, which is faster than others, and some imported harvesters also have a drying function. What's more, after the 21st century, most of the young and middle-aged people in rural areas have gone out to work, and most of those who stay at home are old people, who are unable to harvest manually and can only rely on machines.

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In other words, although Marin was a rural child in his previous life, he would only help when he was busy. Usually, when his parents went to the field to pull out the weeds and pinch off the sweet potato flowers, he couldn't see them. Therefore, he has never seen sweet potato flowers and seeds. As an adult, he went to college and went to work in the city, so he was even more invisible, and it was not uncommon for him not to have seen sweet potato seeds.

Although Marin has never seen sweet potato seeds, he also knows a lot of agricultural knowledge. For example, when rice and wheat mature, nutrients will gather in the seeds, and then the plants will turn yellow and die.

So, he frowned and asked:

"How are those seed-bearing sweet potatoes doing?"

Goulard thought about it, but couldn't figure out why. But Ah Ben, who had not set off yet, replied:

"It seems... It seems that the yield of sweet potatoes with seeds will be reduced... The sweet potatoes that are produced are relatively dry... But they are harvested without waiting for the seeds to end, but the yield is higher, and the sweet potatoes are fuller..."

Aben was the earliest governor of Panama City. There are also many sweet potato fields around Panama City. Aben used to go to the fields to inspect the fields, so he knew a little bit about it.

Marin understood in an instant-it seems that flowering and fruiting will really affect the yield of sweet potatoes and potato tubers. He was wondering why the yield of sweet potatoes per mu is only about 1,000 catties, even with the use of three fertilizers. It turned out that the nutrition was taken away by the seeds...

So he ordered:

"In the future, when you plant sweet potatoes, you will pinch them when you see the flowers blooming!"

"Ah? If you pinch off the flowers, won't you be able to produce seeds?" Golard was a little surprised. Because it is a bit shocking not to let the seeds grow. After all, Europeans haven't had this habit yet.

"You can pinch it if you want, what's the point?" Marin said dissatisfied.

Then he added:

"After pinching the flowers, count the latest yield per mu of sweet potatoes!"

Goulard had no choice but to nod. He had already decided to take out half of the sweet potato field and conduct a flower pinching test to see the effect. He didn't dare to take risks. After all, Panama now relies on sweet potatoes as its staple food. Although Gollard himself and some colonists did not need to eat sweet potatoes every day, those black slaves depended on sweet potatoes to maintain their lives...

After arranging these things, Marin took the troops who needed to go to Daming, boarded 10 warships, sailed into the Pacific Ocean, and headed west all the way to the Ming Empire...

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