Chapter 0075: Cultivating Fungus Soil
From the feedback he got from Wen Yanran, Kang Mingsong knew that if he wanted to grow rare edible mushrooms such as matsutake mushrooms and truffles, it was likely that he would have to wait for the Super Breeder to upgrade to level 7.
At that time, the super breeder could extract the strains on their own, so that they could be re-cultivated and then planted.
Of course, in the current situation, it is not entirely impossible to achieve small-scale cultivation, for example, he can go to the production area of these two edible mushrooms, collect some soil containing matsutake and truffle spores, and put this soil into the super breeder to cultivate, so as to obtain cultivated matsutake and truffles.
However, the uncertainty is too great, and who knows how many spores are in the collected soil?
Of course, it is also possible to cultivate on a larger scale by collecting a large amount of soil containing spores. However, with the current anxious breeding ability of the super breeder, this method is also declared unfeasible.
After all, even if you upgrade the Super Breeder to Level 3, you can only grow 1000 grams at a time. This does not vary depending on the species, which means that even if the soil containing matsutake and truffle spores is cultivated, only 1,000 grams can be cultivated at a time.
Through a careful study of the cultivation ability of the super breeder, Kang Mingsong knew that because of the opening of the cultivation authority after upgrading to level 3, the cultivation interval of the super breeder has not changed, and it still takes 3 days.
In this way, 10 kilograms of soil can be cultivated in one month.
Therefore, the idea of cultivating soil containing matsutake mushrooms and truffle spores was rationally rejected by Kang Mingsong as soon as he appeared in his mind.
This trick may be tried after the Super Breeder has been upgraded once or twice again. Because at that time, the breeding capacity of the super breeder will be further improved.
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Although it is not possible to breed truffles and matsutake mushrooms in a short period of time, Kang Mingsong is very happy to learn that after the Super Breeder is upgraded to level 3, it can breed spore organisms such as fungi, ferns, algae plants, and bryophytes, because there are still many precious and rare ingredients in these species. For example, morels, bamboo, white fungus, etc., which are ranked among the "eight treasures of grass".
Although yield is a fatal problem in the current artificial cultivation of these ingredients, it is likely that the yield will be greatly increased given the strength of the super breeder.
In other words, he can double or even more morels and bamboo sunflowers, which currently produce only about 20 kilograms. In this way, the economic benefits of growing these rare edible mushrooms are stronger than those of ordinary vegetables.
Moreover, considering the special growth law of these two strains, the method of interplanting can be completely adopted. That is, morels or bamboo sunberries are planted in early spring, and after harvesting, other vegetables are planted.
Even, as long as the planting plan is reasonably planned, it is completely possible to plant two seasons of ordinary vegetables in the case of planting one season of morel mushrooms or bamboo sunflower.
After all, generally speaking, the cultivation season of morels is around December, the harvest season is in March and April, and the whole process is only three or four months, and the remaining eight to nine months are no problem to plant two seasons of other vegetables.
Of course, this is only a theoretical possibility, and the real feasibility of operation still needs to be known in practice.
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The matter of planting morels or bamboo sunflower is still relatively far away, and it is also a matter of the end of the year at the latest, and Kang Mingsong's attention is focused on the current planting problem of the vegetable base, after all, this is directly related to how much he earns this year.
After more than half a month of cultivation, the tomatoes, peppers and cucumber seedlings in the seedling greenhouse are three or four inches tall, and all of them have reached the point where they can be transplanted.
After more than half a month of intensive construction, the remaining nearly 60 acres of greenhouses have also been successfully completed and can transplant seedlings.
So, on the first day of late March, that is, on the day of the vernal equinox, Kang Mingsong hired 20 people from the fourth and sixth groups of residents in the backing community and began transplanting seedlings of three kinds of vegetables.
Transplanting seedlings is not a physical task, but it is a job that requires a lot of patience. After all, the seedlings are very delicate, and if you don't pay attention to the transplantation process, it is easy to damage the seedlings, which is a big loss.
Considering the gap between men and women in this regard, most of the people hired by Kang Mingsong this time are middle-aged and elderly women in their forties and fifties, with only a few strong laborers, and they are responsible for the work of carrying seedlings and transporting manure and other manual work.
In order to improve the survival rate of the seedlings, Kang Mingsong specially purchased manure from some farmers around the market town who feed pigs at home.
This kind of manure is not the kind of dry manure, but water manure from the thatched pit of the pigsty, just one tomato, pepper and cucumber seedling, drizzled with some water manure, the survival rate will be greatly improved.
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I don't know when I sleep in spring, and I smell birds everywhere. The sound of wind and rain comes at night, and the flowers fall to know how much.
The great poet Meng Haoran of the Tang Dynasty wrote "Spring Dawn", which depicts a beautiful picture of a spring morning, which can be said to be the best portrayal of this spring morning in the mountain village.
In March and April, it can be said that it is the most beautiful season of the year in the mountain village, when the spring flowers bloom and the grass grows and the warbler flies. Because the ecological environment is very good, there are many birds in the mountain village.
However, sometimes if there are too many birds, it will also cause trouble to people, such as Kang Mingsong, a particularly poor student at the moment.
Recently, Kang Mingsong not only has to worry about the planting base, his own new villa, he also has to pay attention, in addition, after learning about the artificial cultivation technology of morel mushrooms and bamboo sun, Kang Mingsong has been working on the cultivation of these two precious and rare medicinal and edible fungi.
Artificial cultivation generally adopts two methods: fungus soil inoculation and fruiting body inoculation. Among them, the mushroom soil inoculation needs to be frozen in late April and May, and these work needs to be done now, otherwise the season will be missed.
Specifically, a 10 cm square and 7 cm thick clod of soil is dug up on a plot where morel mushrooms grow well, transplanted into a hole similar to the one taken from the soil, and then covered with 30 cm square plastic film to remove the mulch during the rainy season.
After learning about this method, Kang Mingsong went to the place where morels were found in the mountain forest behind his newly built cottage, dug up a piece of soil, and tried to cultivate the fungus soil.
This work is not simple, but when it comes to operation, it is a delicate job.
In addition, there are all kinds of things at home, and he has to update the code words at night, which makes him very tired, and it is difficult to get up early in the morning.