Chapter 98, The Golden Crow Potatoes That Absorb Heat
Well, actually in Fang Xiaoyue’s world, in large-scale cultivation under scientific management, it is common for potato yields to be as high as 4,000 to 5,000 kilograms per mu.
In some major potato counties, it has been possible to achieve yields of 6,000 or even 10,000 kilograms per mu by using detoxified potatoes, special potato fertilizers, and adapting the fields.
Of course, in a place like Taoyuan Valley, it is easy to produce a thousand catties per mu. In addition, the fields are already very fertile, and perhaps even more is possible.
Since they could still plant for one season, Fang Xiaoyue did not waste any time. The next day, she had people move the potatoes out of the stone chamber, cut them into seed pieces according to the size of the sprouts, and put them in the sun to warm.
Potatoes have a certain period of dormancy during harvest.
It can take as long as four or five months, as short as one month, and some can germinate right after harvesting.
During the dormant period, potatoes will not sprout, which also gives the potatoes time to reserve.
However, no matter how long the dormant period is, the dormant period will be lifted quickly when the temperature is high.
This is also the key reason why when Fang Xiaoyue bought potatoes and put them in the kitchen, they sprouted in a short time.
After some high-temperature treatment, some seed pieces began to germinate after a few days.
These seed blocks were quickly planted in the newly cultivated fields by the eager villagers.
According to the regular seeding rate, more than 240 kilograms of seed blocks are needed per acre of potatoes.
But in order to plant more potatoes next year, these seed blocks were sown evenly in the Taoyuan Path.
With the efforts of hundreds of people, Taoyuan Trail was able to cultivate 200 acres of new farmland in just a few days, and then successively cultivated another 300 acres of new farmland.
This is also their limit.
The total area of Taoyuan Trail is 1.5 square kilometers, but after excluding swamps, streams and some wild plants that need to be preserved, there is only 0.7 square kilometers left for cultivation, which is about one thousand acres.
Fang Xiaoyue feels that there is no need to cultivate the remaining 500 acres. When the potato vines grow, they will cut the vines into sections and plant them directly.
Anyway, this potato has a strong vitality and can grow happily on uncultivated land. At most, the yield will be lower.
Of course, even if the vines are cut into sections, it will take some time to plant the entire 500 acres.
The remaining 500 acres will probably only last next year.
The potatoes are planted and managed by the hard-working villagers. Fang Xiaoyue only needs to tell them some management methods of fertilizing and watering.
What really requires his energy is the rice and wheat that are about to be harvested in Taoyuan Valley.
No matter how large the potato output is, it cannot compare to the deliciousness of rice and flour.
If you want to quickly harvest, thresh, dry and store rice and wheat in the sunny and rainy Shiwanda Mountain climate, you will definitely not be able to just rely on the old methods of the villagers.
To this end, Fang Xiaoyue personally made more than ten wood threshing machines.
As for the harvester, he can do it, but it will be very troublesome. After all, this thing is no better than potatoes. Potatoes can be said to be a crop that has never been seen in the mountains. This harvester is too far ahead of the historical process of this place.
Besides, with the number of people in the valley, it would not be appropriate to use a harvester to harvest while others stand aside and watch the fun.
For more than a week, Taoyuan Valley worked together to harvest all the rice and wheat and put them into warehouses.
With the new grain, the voices in Taoyuan Valley were filled with joy.
While everyone was preparing for the unique local harvest festival, Fang Xiaoyue returned to the wooden house leisurely, took out a small pot, filled it with water, put it on the fire, and then took two golden black potatoes, washed them, threw them in, and covered them.
Cover the pot and simmer.
While waiting for the potatoes to be boiled, Fang Xiaoyue sat down and meditated.
This is necessary. If you want to quickly raise the level of a monk, you cannot rely solely on fate points.
Besides, he only has 60 destiny points left now. It's okay to use them to gamble on dice luck, but it's impossible to do anything else.
After meditating for about a moment, Fang Xiaoyue slowly opened her eyes and focused her gaze on the small pot.
What surprised him was that the water in the small pot had long been boiled dry and the pot was burning red, but the golden black potatoes inside were still red and showed no signs of burning at all.
this?
After thinking for a while, he picked out a potato with chopsticks and looked at it.
This golden black potato still only emits a faint heat, no different from before putting it in.
Just touch it with your hand, and the information about Golden Crow Potato comes into your mind.
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Golden Crow potatoes that have absorbed a little heat: Potatoes that contain a trace of Golden Crow blood. Eating this potato has a very small chance of obtaining Golden Crow blood.
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Hmm? The name of the potato has changed.
After thinking for a while, Fang Xiaoyue simply put the two Golden Crow potatoes into the fire, and then added some firewood.
Obviously, this potato can absorb heat, and he guessed that the Golden Crow potato may undergo some changes after absorbing heat.
Of course, whether there will really be any changes remains to be seen in the future.
After the fire burned fiercely for half an hour, the fire gradually weakened. Fang Xiaoyue dug out one of the potatoes, stretched out his hand on it, and got new information.
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Golden Crow potatoes that have absorbed a lot of heat: Potatoes that contain a trace of Golden Crow blood. Eating this potato has a slight chance of obtaining Golden Crow blood.
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It is indeed consistent with what I guessed!
After absorbing a lot of heat, not only did the name of this Golden Crow potato change, but even the introduction information also changed.
If you eat the original Golden Crow potatoes, there is a very small chance of acquiring Golden Crow bloodline.
The current Golden Crow Potato has a slight chance of obtaining the Golden Crow bloodline.
The probability of obtaining Golden Crow bloodline has been increased!
If he wasn't worried about attracting too much attention, Fang Xiaoyue would have wanted to send these golden black potatoes to the small blast furnace for calcination.
After all, compared to firewood, which only has a high temperature of three to four hundred degrees, the temperature in a small blast furnace is at least thousands!
There is no doubt that the efficiency will be much higher.
Of course, the temperature is not enough, time will come up.
In order to save firewood and avoid having to go out constantly to find firewood, Fang Xiaoyue dug a pit, put all the Golden Crow potatoes in it, and lit a bonfire on it.
In the next three days, he did not leave except for asking his sons to carry firewood.
Even after nightfall the next day, there was a sudden heavy rain, so he quickly built a tent for the bonfire.
Of course, it is very worrying for his various behaviors to fall in the eyes of his own son.
Is daddy sick? Is there something wrong with his brain?
If Fang Xiaoyue hadn't behaved more strangely, they might have called the doctor in the valley for a consultation.
Well, maybe the dignity that Dad established in the past made them dare not act rashly.