As the preliminary collection team went through one exploration point after another, Fouquelin and her professional team collected quite a lot of detailed data on the growth status of Vosbello's specialty plants in spring.
From these data, it is not difficult to see that there is a reason why the Forsbarrow people cannot support these northern plants.
For example, the Cassidorosia plant has relatively normal growth conditions. Whether it is humidity requirements or climate requirements, Forsbarrow can meet them, but the problem is that its germination and overwintering conditions are too harsh.
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As a three-year-old herbaceous plant, Cassidorus flowers need to go through two winters, and if they want to survive the winter successfully, they must be blown by strong winds, and the winds are mixed with ice elements - that is, Anivia.
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Without the breath of Anivia, a protective layer of ice elements cannot be created under the stem surface of the Cassidoros flower to maintain the shape of the stem and lower it to the ground.
Without this layer of protection, the Cassis rose flower will raise its head stubbornly in the winter and then snap off without exception.
Other northern plants also have their own various characteristics. Some of them have extremely high requirements for temperature and humidity, some require special elemental environments, and some are even only adapted to the soil of the Longji Mountains...
Without the environment of the Longji Mountains, these conditions are almost impossible to meet, so the people of Fosbarrow tried for a long time but failed to successfully grow these plants. In addition, there are few people in Fosbarrow, and the trade is blocked and the mountain products sold are also difficult to grow.
There were so few, so in the end, I simply chose to collect herbs in the Longji Mountains.
Now, as Fouquelin's team has completed the field experiment, they will return to Forsbarrow with the seeds picked during this trip and conduct simulated cultivation again in an artificial environment. If the experiment goes well, Fouquelin will
Lin will convene other groups to discuss how to create large-scale conditions for artificial cultivation.
Field experiments-condition screening-experimental cultivation-environmental modification-small-scale planting-promoting planting, this is the plan that Kalya taught Fouquelin to quickly carry out artificial cultivation of special species.
The entire process would have taken at least seven growth cycles without the presence of Fouquelin, a little girl who can speed up the plant growth cycle. The field experiment step would have taken an unknown amount of time - just relying on controlled variables to observe.
The conditions for plant production and the workload are simply prohibitive.
But with Fouquelin here, she can greatly reduce the time for field experiments and experimental cultivation. Only small-scale planting and promotion planting require the normal time of the plant growth cycle!
After the field experiment was completed and they returned to Forsbarrow, Fauquelin and her team members held a very serious meeting. During this period, Lux and Kalya, as well as Granny Nadine, the president of the herb collectors' guild, also attended.
meeting.
There is only one topic at this meeting, and that is which northern specialty plant to choose as a choice for Forsbarrow's experimental planting.
Because there is only one Fauquelin, and there are only a few people who can accurately cooperate with her, it is completely impossible to conduct artificial cultivation experiments of multiple plants at the same time.
Just choose one of them to cultivate.
As for which kind of plant to cultivate, this question not only involves the difficulty of the experiment, but also needs to consider economic issues - if this kind of plant flows into the market in large quantities, will the market be able to eat it?
How to cultivate plants that require special growth environments under artificial conditions is an academic issue; but which plants to choose for cultivation is an economic issue.
In addition, considering that in order for the people of Fosbello to believe that plants can be cultivated according to the experimental results, subsequent experimental plantings may need to attract people to visit, which is also an issue that needs to be considered.
Among the northern plants that Fauquelin had studied, Cassidorosia had the clearest growing conditions, but after a brief discussion, it was the first one to be eliminated.
There is no way. For three-year-old plants, even if Fouquelin helps complete the preliminary experiments, the plants will have to grow naturally in an artificial environment starting from the small-scale planting step of creating artificial conditions.
Subsequent promotion of planting will also take a lot of time, and planting this kind of plant will take a lot of energy. The current Forsbarrow people do not have enough time and savings to plant flowers for three years - and even if they do, currently Lack
Silk's appeal is not enough to make them put aside all their worries and give it a try.
Therefore, even if the growth conditions of Cassidorus flower are very clear, even if its sales and price are very attractive, even if its field experiment results are the best, you still cannot choose it.
Among the remaining plants, after three hours of intense discussion, everyone finally decided on Fragrant Red Soil as the first plant to be cultivated artificially.
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Fragrant red sage is a specialty plant in the northern region and the southern foothills of the Longji Mountains. Its useful parts are its red leaves.
Whenever spring comes and flowers bloom, the plants at the southern foot of the Longji Mountains will seize the precious time to bloom and compete with each other.
The flowers of fragrant red sage are not very showy, but at this time, its leaves will turn bright red, and they will emit a wonderful fragrance and secrete oil.
Due to the low overwintering temperatures in the northern region, the local boreal bees need more beeswax to build their nests than bees elsewhere, so they like the oil of fragrant red sage very much.
After collecting nectar, these northern cold bees rub their bodies on the leaves of fragrant red sage, bring back this fragrant oil, and mix it with beeswax to build nests. In the process, they hide among the leaves.
The small flowers will complete the pollination by the way.
Herb collectors in Fosbello also pick a lot of fragrant red sage leaves to take home in the spring. The leaves of this plant can be pressed for oil, and they are the main component of the "Northern Essential Oil" that is popular in the capital.
Although some corrupt nobles in the capital use it in strange places, in fact, the oil of fragrant red sage is a very good cooking oil. It is not only very fragrant, but also quite durable in storage. It can also be used as antifreeze oil in winter.
The body and economic value are extremely high.
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The fragrant red perilla leaves are back - for the same volume, the price of the fragrant red perilla leaves is less than one-twentieth of the Cassidorose flowers.
For medicinal collectors, red sage is a useless plant. When there is nothing to pick, people usually pick some red sage leaves and go home, squeeze the oil themselves, and then sell the oil residue to hunters to dye their fur.
However, from the perspective of artificial plant cultivation, fragrant red sage leaves are the best choice for Fosbairo!
Although fragrant red sage leaves are also perennial plants, their leaves can be picked in the spring of the first year. According to herb collectors, as long as more than two-thirds of the leaves are not picked, subsequent fragrant red sage leaves can be harvested.
It will continue to grow.
In addition, due to its easy pollination, fragrant red sage often grows into a large area and is densely stacked on top of each other. The yield per unit area is amazing!
Moreover, although the results of field experiments on Fragrant Rose are not as clear as those of Cassidorus flowers, they are still relatively obvious. The main reason why the Forsbarrow people were unable to grow Fragrant Rose in the past was because of its impact on the land.
Fertilizer rate has very high requirements. In addition, with different growth cycles, this plant also has extreme temperature requirements. It needs to be very cold in winter and very hot in summer.
(Regarding this, Fouquelin, who conducted the experiment, was actually a little strange, because the area where the fragrant red suspense is located, even in summer, does not have a temperature that meets the requirements for the growth of the fragrant red suspense in the summer cycle, but it happens to grow in the mountains.
Very good.)
For Forsbarrow, controlling the soil's fertility and temperature is the easiest thing to do.
Taken together, Fragrant Red Suzhou has the advantages of high planting density per unit area, high commodity output rate, easy to achieve growth conditions, and complete subsequent processing industries (oil extraction, printing and dyeing). It is the best artificially cultivated economic crop!
After completing the field experiment process, Fouquelin will lead her team to start further experiments on the artificial cultivation of fragrant red sage in the experimental area in Forsbarrow City.
Since it is early spring now, the Fragrant Red Seeds have not even bloomed, let alone planted seeds. Therefore, in order to conduct the experiment, Nadingson will have to make another hard trip to the Longji Mountains to dig up a few Fragrant Red Seeds intact and bring them back.
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After the meeting, Fauquelin happily went to arrange her laboratory.
Lux took the initiative to invite Granny Nadine to have tea with her.
Although she is a paragon of nobility, and although she is drinking the Ionia treasure that Ogesha specially brought to Lux, Lux's style of drinking tea is no different from Granny Nadine's - both of them brew a large cup in one go.
Then wait for the tea to cool down a bit, then drink it directly.
"It's really good tea." After drinking half a cup of tea, Granny Nadine smiled and narrowed her eyes, "Drinking a cup of tea in early spring makes the cold of spring disappear, and my old bones and joints don't hurt anymore.
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"If you like it, I still have quite a few." Lux also smiled, "I can't tell if it's good or bad, just have some flavor in the water."
Grandma Nadine blinked her eyes when she heard this, her expression a little subtle.
In fact, Granny Nadine had heard many stories about Lux's "paragon of nobility" from her friend Grandma Ling. However, as she gradually came into contact with her, she found more and more that this Earl seemed to be similar to the paragon of nobility.
It had nothing to do with it. Every time she thought of the title "Paragon of Nobles", she would subconsciously think that it was Lux who pretended to be one.
But the strange thing is that Lux is obviously a very direct and honest person - from the perspective of Granny Nadine's age, this kind of sincerity cannot be deceived.
In this case, she could only regard the stories about her friends as lies spread by the nobles of the capital.
"Does Granny Nadine have any other ideas about the cultivation of fragrant red sage?" After talking about the tea question, Lux finally brought the topic back to the topic, "In the previous meeting, you never spoke and just nodded.
——Is there anything you can’t say that’s inconvenient to say?”
"No." Grandma Nadine's answer was very straightforward, "Not at all. You have already thought of everything I can think of."
"..."
"This is not an unintentional compliment." Looking at Lux who suddenly didn't know what to say, Granny Nadine put down her tea cup, "This is the truth."
Lux nodded, indicating that she understood.
"In the eyes of outsiders, we herb collectors can pick plants like Cassidorus that are worth gold when dried, but they don't know that the flowering period of Cassidorus is less than ten days."
Speaking of the life of a herb picker, Grandma Nadine sighed helplessly, "And they all grow in the steepest and most dangerous places. Every year, there are many good guys and girls who come here to pick more herbs."
Cassie Dorothy fell to her death."
Lux continued to nod silently.
"My father lost his footing and fell into a deep valley while collecting medicine." She raised her head slightly and sat upright with her tall body, making it difficult to see the expression on her face. "People traveling with me said that it was just for a
Cassiopeia flower."
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"So after I heard that farmers in other places can farm, I was wondering if I could grow some plants like them, even if it requires more work to take care of." Grandma Nadine rubbed the edge of the teacup with her dry fingers.
, continued, "What I chose at that time was fragrant red solanum."
Lux was a little surprised.
"But I'm not a mage, and I can't control the temperature." Granny Nadine's expression gradually became bitter, "I opened up a place at the top of the city and used the most fertile soil I could find to build a flower bed.
A lot of fragrant red persimmons were planted inside.”
"In the first spring, the fragrant red sage sprouted, and a layer of thin seedlings with light red leaves were particularly beautiful in that flower bed." While recalling the past, Grandma Nadine continued to tell,
"At that time, many people were like me. They would look at those fragrant red berries every day when they had nothing to do, watching them grow little by little and attract bees - my neighbor was even stung by wasps in the flower bed."
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"Then in the summer, they all died." Grandma Nadine shook her head, as if feeling pity, "One by one they withered. I was so anxious that I lost my hair, but not even one of them survived until autumn."
Lux pursed her lips.
"Later, I didn't give up and dug up a batch of old plants in autumn and planted them in the flower bed." Grandma Nadine continued in a stubborn tone, "I took care of them more carefully than I took care of Nadineson."
Lux didn't say anything because she already knew the ending.
"Then, one winter, they all died." Having said this, Granny Nadine finally lowered her head and looked directly at Lax with a pair of cloudy eyes, "I know why you came to me, I know."
Lux was a little surprised.
"I'm not that old hunter who can't see the situation clearly. I just hope that the herb collectors can live a better life." Granny Nadine's expression was very complicated, with a mixture of unwillingness and relief, loss and expectation. "Herbal collectors don't know how to live a better life."
We are sad because we can’t pick them. If we could, we would actually prefer to plant them safely instead of going to the mountains and risking our lives to get those precious flowers and plants.”
"If planting can help herb collectors get better results, then Fosbairo can have no herb collectors!" Granny Nadine stretched out her arm and put her rough and withered hand on Lux's hand, "I
I don’t understand magic, so I can’t grow fragrant red sage, but you do, so you must grow it and find a way for everyone to grow it!”
"The old woman's words still have some weight among the herb collectors." Granny Nadine pursed her lips and promised in as strong and airtight voice as possible, "As long as there is a way to plant fragrant red sage,
No matter what magic is used, there is absolutely no little brat among the herb collectors who would dare to say anything wrong!"
Lux did not speak after all. She looked directly into the eyes of the old man opposite and nodded solemnly.
