Taking out a bag of grain seeds from the seed bank, Chen Mulin returned to the farm again, and brought a bucket with him by the way.

He then poured all the seeds into a bucket and added the released water.

This is a process of awakening the grain seeds, which takes at least ten hours.

After soaking the grain seeds, Chen Mulin went to see the irrigation situation.

[Barrage: You can raise fish!]

[Barrage: It looks pretty good, and planting rice shouldn't be a problem.] 】

[Barrage: It's about the same as the acre of land at the foot of my mountain!]

[Barrage: It turns out that Mars can't play with fire, but it can play with water and increase knowledge. 】

[Barrage: Do you need pesticides? Focus on pesticide wholesale for 20 years, Tong Su is not bullied, a piece of free shipping, Mars can be delivered. 】

[Barrage: I'm from the city, is the rice grown in the pond?]

......

In half an hour, a layer of mud had been completely submerged in water, and it really looked like a small pond.

Chen Mulin first went to measure it, and the depth was about five centimeters.

Not sure if it was enough, Chen Mulin immediately asked the water friend: "Five centimeters of water, should it be enough?"

[Barrage: It is said that you can raise fish. 】

[Barrage: Enough, remember to put two carp down......]

Carp......

I've got a yarn carp!

Chen Mulin complained secretly.

In fact, Chen Mulin felt that the depth of the water was almost the same, and since the sailors also said enough, he also closed the water valve.

In fact, the soil that has just turned into black dirt has not been trampled, and it is still soft, and after blisters, it does not need to be bothered, and it forms mud on its own, but it is ready for the machine in vain.

Now that the seeds are not soaked well, and there is nothing else to do, Chen Mulin simply returned to the base to be lazy, and spent the second half of the day like this.

Until the next morning.

Chen Mulin started the live broadcast and returned to the farm, and the seeds had been soaked at this moment.

"Brothers, this is the 106th Martian day of life on Mars, and there is nothing else to do today, mainly rice seedlings. ”

"You see, after a night of soaking, the seed has been awakened and is soon ready to germinate. ”

Chen Mulin said as he zoomed in the camera, focusing on the grain seeds.

It is clear from the footage that the chaff has been soaked and fluffy, as if a bud will emerge at any moment.

Perhaps some of the people who watched the live broadcast also helped farm at home when they were young, and probably knew something about this.

But it's safe to assume that most of the people who watched the live stream didn't experience it.

And now Chen Mulin wants to show it to them, so that some people who have not experienced it can also experience it when watching the live broadcast.

Therefore, Chen Mulin wants to restore what he has experienced before as much as possible.

"You can see it all? This is the soaked grain seed, and now we are starting to grow the rice seedlings. ”

Chen Mulin came to a steel frame with a bucket, pointed and said, "This is the steel frame used to cultivate rice seedlings." ”

The steel frame is divided into three layers, each layer has three one-square-meter steel plates, and there are dense grooves on the steel plates that are larger than peanut grains.

Chen Mulin sprinkled the seeds in the bucket and evenly distributed two and three seeds in each groove.

After filling the bucket with mud and mixing it into a slurry, he poured the mud directly into the steel plate, then brushed it flat and buried the seeds with the mud.

In this way, the preliminary work of seedling cultivation is completed.

"That's it!"

Chen Mulin washed his hands and said to the sailors: "The preliminary work has basically been completed, and now all we have to do is wait, it will take more than a week before we can plant seedlings." ”

[Barrage: Is that so? I thought I could just just sow the seeds in the field. 】

[Barrage: There is an inner taste, I miss it so much!]

[Barrage: An earthy sci-fi live broadcast room. 】

[Barrage: I have increased my knowledge, and I thought it was sown directly like potatoes!]

......

"Of course it's not directly sown!"

Chen Mulin had long guessed that some of the sailors watching the live broadcast would not understand, but he didn't expect so many things that he didn't understand.

It seems necessary to explain.

Chen Mulin had no choice but to contribute what he knew and guessed.

"Rice is different from potatoes, the main reason is that the grains are too small, and if they are thrown out, they tend to grow together, resulting in insufficient nutrients and low yields. ”

"That's why I have grooves in the steel plates when I grow them, just to avoid sparseness. ”

"Similarly, seedling planting is also conducive to the rapid growth of rice seedlings, and when they grow to a height of about 15 centimeters, they can be transplanted to the field, that is, transplanted seedlings. ”

[Barrage: The anchor knows a lot, do astronauts still work part-time in agriculture?]

[Barrage: In fact, agriculture is also very high, and its professional name is "botanist"!]

[Barrage: Didn't you say that botanists can even move bricks on the construction site?]

[Barrage: I already knew, and you people in the city think it's strange. 】

[Barrage: Rice grown on Mars is not rare enough?]

[Barrage: After all, the Martian potatoes have been planted.] 】

......

In the following week, the rice seedlings grew well, faster than expected.

After planting rice again, Chen Mulin was not idle.

In fact, he was too idle, so he planted some wheat, corn, and some vegetables and beans on the second floor to enrich his food on Mars.

On the third floor, he turned it into a tropical orchard, and even built a small beach pool, next to several coconut trees, and a large piece of glass on top, so that you can enjoy the sun and beach here when you have nothing to do.

After nearly a month of being so chic, when Chen Mulin was about to fall, an emergency signal came back from the No. 2 unmanned probe.