I am farming in the real world.

Chapter 113 Super Black Technology Targeted Cultivation! (Subscription Request)
"Is this embarrassing for you?"

Chen Jue saw some disdain for online seed purchases from this big-nosed old farmer.

The big-nosed old farmer, who was a [breeding expert], nodded and began to explain: "Yes, boss, the quality of your seeds is too low. If you want to breed the dual top attributes of [prosperity] + [excellent], it will take a lot of time to iterate."

"The best way is to crossbreed and select vigorous + excellent male and female parents, which can greatly shorten the number and time of iterations."

After listening to the words of the big-nosed old farmer, Chen Jue also looked thoughtful.

Although he was not an agronomy major, he had done well in biology in high school and knew the advantages of hybrid breeding.

Take hybrid rice, which Yuan has specialized in all his life. In the early days, he discovered "natural male sterile plants", the so-called "natural hybrid rice", in the rice fields of Dongting early indica rice by chance. This started the cultivation and research of hybrid rice.

This is also true for animals in nature. In order to reproduce, they usually choose strong opposite sex to mate with, so as to produce offspring that are healthier and better adapted to the environment.

Take dogs for example. Expensive purebred dogs are far inferior to the native rural dogs such as Ah Huang, which have been hybridized for countless generations in terms of survival ability and adaptability.

In other words, if you want to get excellent next-generation crops, it is best for both the father and mother to have high-quality and complete genes.

However, the batch of seeds purchased online by Chen Jue had enough varieties, covering almost thousands of different economic crops, from vegetables, fruits, fungi, flowers, staple foods, etc.

However, since the order was placed randomly online, Chen Jue could not use the MC system's identification subtitles to check the quality of these seeds and living organisms in advance.

As a result, most of the items delivered with free shipping are of moderate quality with attributes of [Healthy] + [Ordinary].

It is obviously a bit wishful thinking to want to breed excellent hybrid offspring that break the limit based on such parents.

Even if Chen Jue had a ripening artifact like [bone meal], he would probably have to spend a lot of time on it, relying on luck, to have a chance of cultivating [prosperous] + [excellent] top quality crops.

……

After listening to the old farmer's explanation, Chen Jue temporarily gave up the idea of ​​quickly cultivating top-level crop varieties.

As the saying goes: more haste, less speed.

Without sufficient conditions, even MC villagers like [Breeding Expert] cannot produce top-level seeds for Chen Jue out of thin air.

"Except for using emeralds to buy seeds in MC."

"Then all that's left is to spend a lot of time to slowly conquer it."

Although Chen Jue is not good at scientific research, he knows that it will take a lot of time to truly cultivate excellent and high-yield crops.

In addition, under current conditions, if you want to get better parents, you have to start from domestic agricultural research institutes and agricultural universities.

Because the best seeds in the country, except for those commercial seed companies, are basically concentrated in these scientific research institutions.

"Some time ago, I remember a Japanese commercial spy came to our country to bribe an insider and tried to steal news about our hybrid rice parents, but he was caught red-handed."

"The Japanese are suffering from a rice shortage right now, and they are probably jealous of our hybrid rice technology."

"It would be impossible to buy the experimental parents from scientific research institutions by purchasing them alone. I wonder if sponsorship is feasible." Chen Jue touched his chin and took out his notebook to write down the two prerequisites for obtaining top-level varieties.

When he came to his senses, he found that the old farmer, the [breeding expert], had already started to demonstrate how to breed in the experimental field with the seeds that Chen Jue bought online. According to the big-nosed old farmer, many of the crops on the real earth that Chen Jue bought online were unfamiliar to him.

It is necessary to rotate the crops one by one to understand their habits and characteristics before proceeding to the next step of breeding.

"This setting is very similar to Lao Shang!"

"Then can you absorb the knowledge in books quickly?" Chen Jue continued to ask.

Seeing the old farmer nod, "Okay, boss!" he immediately combined all the agricultural books purchased online into a [bookshelf] and gave it to the other party for quick absorption.

After completing this step, the old farmer, who had a preliminary understanding of the plants and crops on Earth, continued, "Boss! Learning from books is shallow. I still need to plant them myself to understand them more deeply."

When Chen Jue saw that this big-nosed old farmer was more dedicated to farming than himself, who had just changed his career path, he vacated the underground base and let the other party perform.

It took out its own enchanted [Iron Pickaxe], and quickly opened up a large piece of MC farmland, and then sowed the seeds.

No matter whether it was vegetables, fruits, or flowers, they would just take the [bone meal] and pour it gently. Their movements were very skillful, and there was even a hint of elegance that was different from the brute force of the Iron Golems!
When the sown seeds began to glow green and skipped the first growth stage, the big-nosed old farmer put away the [bone meal] and began to use the [brush] to clean the paired crops.

According to the other party's description, it is not possible to skip all growth stages by relying solely on [bone meal] for breeding. Doing so will only be affected by the rules of MC farmland and produce offspring that are highly similar to the parent seeds.

It doesn't help much in improving the properties of the seeds.

The plant needs to be carefully cultivated during its second growth stage, which is the flowering and fruiting stage.

For example: watering and fertilizing, pruning branches, pest control and weeding, artificial pollination, directional cultivation and other basic operations, the big-nosed old farmer patted his chest and said that these are his specialties.

"What is targeted training?" Chen Jue asked curiously.

Chen Jue did have some impression of other farming techniques and felt that they were all very basic farm work.

The only thing he had never heard of was the last one, 'targeted training'.

So the big-nosed old farmer reached out and picked a half-ripened soybean, then patiently explained: "Directed breeding is to cultivate a plant variety in the direction of desired characteristics."

"Your agricultural experts have tried to adapt rice to salinized land, which is very similar to the targeted breeding I have mastered."

"Take this soybean plant in my hand as an example. If you want it to develop the characteristic of drought tolerance in a normal soil environment, you need to gradually reduce and drain the water in the soil until its offspring are fully adapted to the dry growth environment and produce soybeans of the same yield and quality. This means that the targeted breeding is successful."

"WTF??? Can you play like this?"

When Chen Jue heard about this incredible technology, he immediately said with a trembling voice: "If we extract the moisture from the soil to the desertification state, can we also cultivate similar soybeans?"

The big-nosed old farmer gave Chen Jue a mysterious smile: "Boss, growing soybeans in the desert is theoretically possible for us [breeding experts]."

"But I just came to my world, and I don't know much about the soil, light, and climate here. If I want to cultivate the desert soybeans you mentioned, I need to conduct a lot of desert field experiments, and I also need high-quality parents and a lot of [bone meal] as supporting aids."

Upon hearing that there was a certain chance of the ‘Desert Soybeans’ being realized, Chen Jue's face showed ecstasy!
This is indeed agricultural breeding technology produced by the MC system, it is truly black technology that has reached the top of the world!
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