Survival on Mars Live

Chapter 45

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

Then, he poured all the grain seeds into the bucket and added the released water.

This is a process of waking up the grain seed, and it will take at least ten hours.

After soaking the grain seeds, Chen Mulin went to check the watering situation.

[Barrage: You can raise fish! 】

[Danmaku: It looks pretty good, growing rice should not 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 he can play with water, increasing his knowledge. 】

[Barrage: Do you need pesticides?We have been focusing on the wholesale of pesticides for 20 years. We are honest and trustworthy. Free shipping for one piece will be delivered to Mars. 】

[Bullet screen: I'm from the city, may I ask if the rice is grown in the pond? 】

……

In half an hour, the first layer of soil was completely submerged, and it really looked like a small pond.

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

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

[Barrage: They say that you can raise fish. 】

【Bullet screen: Enough, remember to put two carp down...】

carp……

I have a woolen carp!

Chen Mulin complained secretly.

In fact, Chen Mulin felt that the water depth was about the same, and since the water friends said it was enough, he turned off the water valve.

In fact, the soil that has just turned into black soil has not been trampled on, and it is still soft now. After being soaked in water, it does not need to be fiddled with, and it forms mud by itself, which is useless to prepare the machine.

Now that the seeds were not soaked and there was 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. The seeds had already been soaked.

"Brothers, this is the 106th Martian day of living on Mars. I have nothing else to do today, mainly rice seedling cultivation."

"Look, after a night of soaking, the grain seeds have been awakened and will soon be able to germinate."

As Chen Mulin spoke, he zoomed in on the camera and locked the focus on the grain seed.

It can be clearly seen from the lens that the chaff has been soaked and fluffy, as if a bud will emerge at any time.

Perhaps some of the people who watched the live broadcast helped plant land at home when they were young, so they probably know something about it.

But you can be sure that most people watching the live broadcast have not experienced it.

And now Chen Mulin wants to show it to them, so that some people who have no experience can experience it while watching the live broadcast.

Therefore, Chen Mulin wanted to restore as much as possible what he had experienced before.

"You can see it clearly? This is the soaked grain seed. Now we start to cultivate rice seedlings."

Chen Mulin carried the bucket to a steel frame, pointed to it and said, "This is the steel frame for cultivating rice seedlings."

The steel frame is divided into three layers, each layer has three steel plates the size of one square meter, and there are dense grooves on the steel plates that are about the size of a peanut.

Chen Mulin sprinkled the seeds in the bucket, evenly distributing two or three seeds in each groove.

Then he filled the bucket with mud, stirred it into mud, poured the mud directly onto the steel plate, then brushed it flat and buried the seeds with the mud.

The preparatory work of raising seedlings has just been finished like this.

"nailed it!"

After washing his hands, Chen Mulin said to the water friends: "The preliminary work has basically been completed. Now all we have to do is wait. It will take more than a week before we can plant rice seedlings."

[Barrage: Is that so?I thought it would be good to just scatter the seeds in the field. 】

[Barrage: It has an inner taste, so nostalgic! 】

[Barrage: Earthy sci-fi live broadcast room. 】

[Barrage: I have gained so much knowledge, I thought it was sown directly like potatoes! 】

……

"Of course it wasn't directly sown!"

Chen Mulin had already guessed that some water friends watching the live broadcast would not understand, but he did not expect that there would be so many people who did not understand.

It seems necessary to explain.

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

"Rice and potatoes are not the same. The main reason is that the grains are too small. If they are thrown out directly, they will easily gather and grow together, resulting in insufficient nutrients and low yield."

"This is also the reason why I have grooves on the steel plates during cultivation, just to avoid density."

"Similarly, the seedling cultivation method is also conducive to the rapid growth of rice seedlings. When they grow to a height of about fifteen centimeters, they can be transplanted into the field, that is, transplanting rice 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 a botanist can even move bricks on a construction site? 】

【Bullet screen: I knew it a long time ago, so you people in the city find it strange. 】

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

[Barrage: After all, Martian potatoes have been grown. 】

……

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

After transplanting rice seedlings again, Chen Mulin was not idle either.

In fact, he was too busy, 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 swimming pool, with several coconut trees planted beside it, and a large piece of glass on the top. Enjoy the sun and sand here.

It's been so cool for nearly a month, when Chen Mulin was about to fall, an emergency signal came back from the No. [-] unmanned exploration vehicle.

(End of this chapter)