In fact, Malin didn’t know that sweet potatoes have seeds. Not only sweet potatoes have seeds, but potatoes also have seeds. However, most farmers do not choose seeds to reproduce when planting sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Because, after long-term dicing and asexual reproduction, the seeds of sweet potatoes and potatoes have degenerated. Even if they are kept, the germination rate is not high.

Moreover, it is easy to change when propagate with seeds. For example, the originally high-yield sweet potato varieties are likely to become low-yield. However, if they are diced and asexually reproduced, the yield and quality can be stably guaranteed.

How to say, seed reproduction is similar to the marriage between humans and men. The children born may look like the man or the woman, or they may be a little bit like, but they inherit the shortcomings of the man and the woman...

Asexual reproduction is similar to cloning technology. The cloned offspring is very similar to the mother's family, has the same gender, and looks similar. Of course, cloning people is contrary to morality, while sweet potatoes and potatoes that are reproductive asexual are fine. After all, that is food, what do you think of sweet potatoes and potatoes?

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In fact, sweet potatoes and potatoes will also blossom and bear fruit. However, when Malin's parents cleared the weeds in the sweet potato field in the previous life, they pinched off the blooming flowers.

Why? Because flowering and fruiting consumes the nutrients of the plants. Let’s put it this way, rice blossoming and fruiting, and finally gathers all the nutrients into the rice, while rice straw turns yellow due to nutrient depletion, and the same is true for wheat...

Many people think that rice is the seed of rice, but it is not. In fact, the seed of rice is the small pinnacle of rice. As for rice, it is actually a gathering of nutrients of the entire rice, which is used to provide nutrition to the small pinnacle on the husk.

In other words, the entire rice grain is actually equivalent to the nutrient solution in the small sharp culture medium on the rice husk, providing sufficient nutrition for the small sharp sprouting and growth.

The same is true for wheat. The seeds of wheat pellets actually have the inconspicuous small bulge on the top of the sagged strips, which is the core of the wheat seeds. The whole wheat pellet, like rice, is a nutrient solution in the culture medium that provides nutrition for seeds, also called endosperm. In other words, the flour we often eat is actually mainly the endosperm of wheat seeds.

Therefore, rice cannot grow when planting rice. Only by planting it in a row can rice grow. The sharp tip on the rice husk is the real rice seed.

When storing grains, you also need to pay attention. If rice or wheat grains are wormed, they may not be used as grain seeds. Because these insects are very treacherous, they specifically ate the small tips of rice and the small bulges on wheat grains. If you are done like this, even if the seeds are scrapped, they will never grow rice and wheat. Therefore, farmers hate these insects very much. Because they specifically ate the core part of rice and wheat seeds, they will "break their children and grandchildren". If you plant this rice and wheat grain that have been harmed by insects, you will definitely not be able to harvest them. Fortunately, in modern times, it would be the end of the whole family starving to death in ancient times...

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However, sweet potatoes are different from potatoes. Because, sweet potatoes and potatoes, what people want is not their seeds, but their stems. Therefore, it is okay not to bloom and bear fruit.

Moreover, flowering and fruiting will absorb most of the plant's nutrients and affect the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes. Therefore, farmers who are familiar with it will not allow sweet potatoes and potatoes to bloom and bear fruit. They often pinch the flowers when weeding.

Although Malin was a rural child in his previous life, most of them received education in schools. He would only help when the busy farming seasons such as spring plowing and autumn harvest (also known as big busy). Rural schools also have a special holiday called "busy vacation". That is, during the summer harvest and autumn harvest season, children will go home to help.

Because, for rural areas, rice and wheat are "snatched to harvest", for fear that it will rain during the harvest season, which will cause the crops to rot in the fields. Although children cannot participate in the harvest when they go home, they can help cook. In this way, a laborer can be freed to participate in the harvest. In addition, rural teachers also need to work on vacation and go home to participate in the harvest. Especially those male teachers, they are the main force in farm work. The real thing to work on vacation is actually those rural teachers. When children go home, they can help cook at most, or pick up wheat ears in summer.

Of course, this happened in the 1990s. Because at that time, most farmers used manual harvesting. After entering the 21st century, they used harvesters, which were faster, and some imported harvesters also had their own drying functions. In addition, after the 21st century, most of the young and middle-aged rural people went out to work, and most of the elderly stayed at home were elderly people, and they were unable to harvest manually, so they could only rely on machines.

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In other words, although Malin was a rural child in his previous life, he would only help when he was busy. When his parents went to the fields to pull out weeds and pinched off sweet potato flowers, he could not see them. Therefore, he had never seen sweet potato flowers and seeds. After he became an adult, he went to college and went to work in the city, so he was even more invisible. It was not uncommon to have never seen sweet potato seeds.

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

So, he frowned and asked:

"How are those sweet potatoes that bear seeds growing?"

Gollard thought about it, but Aben, who had not yet set off, replied:

"It seems... it seems that the yield of sweet potatoes with seeds will decrease... The sweet potatoes produced are relatively shriveled... but they will harvest them before the seeds are finished. Instead, the yield is higher and the sweet potatoes are fuller..."

Aben was the earliest governor of Panama City, and there were also many sweet potato fields around Panama City. Aben used to visit the fields, but he knew a little.

Marin immediately understood - it seems that flowering and fruiting will really affect the yield of sweet potatoes and potato tubers. He was wondering why the yield per mu of sweet potato is only about a thousand kilograms, even if he used three fertilizers. It turned out that the nutrition was stolen by seeds...

So he ordered:

"In the future, plant sweet potatoes and pinch them off when they see them bloom!"

"Ah? Isn't it impossible to bear seeds after pinching off the flowers?" Goulard was a little shocked. Because it was a bit shocking to prevent seeds from being formed. After all, Europeans have not had this habit yet.

"If you ask you to pinch it, what are you talking about?" Marin said dissatisfied.

Then, he added:

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

Golard had no choice but to nod. He had decided to take out half of the sweet potato field and test the flower to see the effect. He didn't dare to take risks. After all, the Panama region now relies on sweet potatoes as staple food. Although Golard himself and some colonists don't have to eat sweet potatoes every day, those black slaves rely on sweet potatoes to maintain their lives...
Chapter completed!