Section 445: Harvesting seeds

The island of Tortuga is located in the tropics.

It is suitable for the growth of tropical plants, but it is not suitable for the growth of subtropical plants, temperate plants, and cold plants.

According to the classification, botanists transplant temperate plants to areas in the nursery that simulate temperate climates, and frigid plants to areas in the nursery that simulate the cold climate.

Aquatic plants, for example, need to be transplanted into nutrient-rich ponds.

Shade-loving plants, which do not like sunlight, need to be transplanted into warm, moderately hidden natural environmental conditions.

Time sneaks away without people knowing.

The calendar hanging on the wall has been flipped to 2019, August 7, the beginning of autumn.

The beginning of autumn is the 13th of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar, the first solar term of autumn, marking the official beginning of the autumn season.

At the beginning of autumn, the sycamore tree begins to lose its leaves, and the fallen leaves know autumn.

It sprouts in spring, grows in summer, harvests in autumn, and stores in winter.

Autumn is a harvest season, with fragrant melons and fruits.

The same is true in the nursery, where the first batch of 187 prehistoric plants that successfully germinated, the second batch of 2,771 prehistoric plants that successfully germinated, and most of the annual flowering plants produced fruit.

The sun was shining, and the early autumn morning sun was lazy, and the breeze was blowing, mixed with the salty smell of the sea.

The weather is particularly intoxicating.

Scientists, farm workers can't hide the smiles on their faces. The fruit is harvested, the seeds are removed from the fruit and vacuum-packed. Classification is well kept.

The first batch of 178 plants that were successfully germinated, and the second batch of 2771 plants that were successfully germinated, a total of 2749 plants.

Among them, there were 1057 species of annual seed plants and 988 species of harvested seeds.

According to the most important classification of plants by botanists, there is 1 food crop, starch. There are 17 species of vegetable plants, 12 species of fruit plants, and 3 species of spice plants. There are no oil plants and sugar plants, 17 kinds of raw material plants, and 3 kinds of medicinal plants. There are 672 species of common flowering plants.

After harvest. Of course, I reported the good news to Chen Rui as soon as possible-

Chunhui Hall in autumn is one of the most beautiful places in Runyuan.

In front of Chunhui Hall is a lotus pond with an area of dozens of acres, the lotus leaves are connected together one by one, the whole sight is green, the pink lotus flowers cover the green lotus leaves, open extraordinarily brightly, this situation and this scene, just like a poem written, the lotus leaves are infinitely green, and the lotus flowers are different red.

Under the lotus leaves. Koi fish of various colors frolic in the water and jump out of the water from time to time. Pecking at flying insects on lotus leaves.

By the lotus pond, small bridges and flowing water, pavilions and pavilions, reflected in the water, coupled with the bright sunshine of early autumn, blow from the seaside with a salty breeze.

Sitting in the pavilion next to Chunhui Hall, there is a pot of tea brewed on the stone table, the aroma is fragrant, and you can look at the beautiful scenery in front of you.

Just like the leisure, free and easy of the ancient literati and writers in the poem, they love the life of mountains and rivers.

Chen Rui enjoys this life very much.

At this moment, the sound of footsteps was heard.

Carlson. Harry walked over with some papers.

"Mr. Chen, this is the document you need to deal with today." Carlson. Harry put the papers on the table and said.

These documents, involving the government of the Kingdom of Tortuga, the foreign affairs of the government, industry and commerce, important personnel appointments and other matters, as well as some business aspects of the Royal Assets Management Committee, these documents are available every day, some need Chen Rui's signature, some important documents need his decision, some documents have been processed by the Cabinet, the Royal Assets Management Committee, and need to be let Chen Rui know. Harry forwarded it to Chen Rui's desk, and if Chen Rui was on the island, he would normally deal with the documents in a timely manner.

After being the king for more than two years, Chen Rui has handled these things very skillfully.

Chen Rui nodded.

"Mr. Chen, one more thing, Professor Dai has just called the secretariat, and I hope to be able to report something to you personally." Carlson. Harry said.

Chen Rui nodded and said, "Let him come over." ”

"Okay, Mr. Chen." Carlson. Harry nodded and turned to leave.

Ten minutes later, Carlson. Harry walked over with Professor Day.

"Mr. Chen, if you don't have anything to order, I'll go and get busy first." Carlson. Harry said.

"Go ahead." Chen Rui, who was approving the documents, raised his head and said to Carlson. Harry said.

et al. Carlson. After Harry turned to leave, Chen Rui said to Dai Mingji, "Professor Dai, please sit down, wait for 10 minutes, and I will deal with these documents and then talk to you in detail." ”

"Okay, Mr. Chen." Professor Dai sat on the stone bench opposite Chen Rui and poured himself a cup of tea.

Looking at Chen Rui, who was concentrating on carefully reviewing the documents, he sighed a little, the person in front of him was very young, only 30 years old, and he was already dealing with the political affairs of a country, managing royal assets with assets of more than 60 billion euros.

Because of work, I have been in contact with him many times, and I feel that he is very amiable, very friendly, and talking to him is like a spring breeze, not at all like the king of a country and the manager and owner of the assets of the 60 billion euro royal family.

Ten minutes later.

Chen Rui closed the last document, put down the pen, and said to Dai Mingji, "Professor Dai, is there anything wrong?" ”

Professor Dai took a sip of tea, sorted out his thoughts in his head, and said, "This year's seeds have been harvested, and I am about to report to you about the harvest summary." ”

Chen Rui nodded.

Professor Dai continued, "The seed project was launched on March 11. On March 14 and April 15, two batches of seeds were sown, with a total of 28,578 seeds, and finally, 2,749 plants were successfully germinated, with a total germination rate of 10.31%. ”

Chen Rui nodded, "10.31% germination rate, Dr. Dai, you guys are doing a good job." ”

10.31% is 1 out of 10 prehistoric seeds that can germinate.

This germination rate exceeded Chen Rui's expectations.

You know, these seeds come from prehistoric civilizations and have been stored in the doomsday seed vault under Lop Nur for more than hundreds of thousands of years, if not millions of years.

Such a long time is enough for some changes to occur inside the seed, such as the activity of enzymes inside the seed is destroyed, the nutrients inside the seed are coagulated, and the embryo can no longer breathe and loses its vitality. (To be continued......)