Agriculture Idol

Chapter 86: You Cooked Corn ([-])

This cornfield is behind a forest, but I couldn't see it in the past. The most intuitive difference between this cornfield and the previous one is that it is more dense.

Anxi broke off a corn from the corn field and peeled off the wrapper.

"Hey, is it white corn?"

Li Chengxin was still holding the unfinished corn in his hand, and when the two corns were put together, the difference in color could be seen at a glance.

Under the camera, each of these white corn kernels is shining with the luster of pearls.

【Very beautiful! 】

[The white pearlescent feels very advanced. 】

[After looking at it for a long time, it feels like a bunch of pearls piled together...I really want to touch it! 】

"This variety of corn is called Pure White. The reason why it is surrounded by trees is to prevent the pollen of those yellow corns from flying over. I didn't pay attention to it when I tried planting it in the first year, but all the plants that grew out turned into yellow corn. yellow."

As he spoke, Anxi picked out another corn plant from the edge of the cornfield, broke it off, and peeled off the wrapping leaves.

"That's what happens when two types of pollen mix."

I saw that the corn grains of this corn were yellow and white, and the grain size was very irregular.

"Speaking of white corn, I remember that it should be from the southwestern grain production area. It's so rare in the north." Li Chengxin said.

Anxi nodded, pointed to a circle of trees and said, "Because there are very few places in the north that can isolate pollen like this, unless a large plain area is planted with white corn."

"Indeed." Li Chengxin nodded.

"Let me interject." Brother Xiaoyong broke off a piece of white corn from his side, "White corn can also be eaten raw, right?"

Brother Xiaoyong, who has always had a big appetite, is obviously not satisfied with the previous corn, and now he has his eyes on the white corn variety.

Anxi smiled and said, "Eat whatever you want."

With this permission, Brother Xiaoyong took a bite of the pearly white corn in his hand.

"This one is pretty sweet too!"

Li Chengxin still had half a yellow corn in his hand, so he dug a few kernels from the corn that Anxi broke off before to taste.

"If the sweetness of the yellow corn just now was 18, then I guess the sweetness of this white corn is 17."

Anxi also broke off a few corn kernels from the corn in his hand, squeezed out the juice and applied it on the test paper.

The data of the sweetness meter gradually stabilized, and the data showed 17.1.

[Zicheng is super god! 】

【Suddenly I really want to eat corn...】

[Unfortunately, I told the front that the corn in the south only started to go on the market in September. 】

"Xin Wa'er's tongue is really powerful!" Brother Xiaoyong finished gnawing the white corn in his hand before he could speak freely to praise Li Chengxin.

At this time, Brother Xiaoyong, who has a lot of research on the soil, discovered something magical when he was looking for the place where the corncobs were dumped.

He squatted down and picked out a white thing from the soil of the cornfield.

"Is this... a shell?"

"Shells?" Li Chengxin leaned forward and asked Anxi, "Did you spread the fertilizer?"

"No, no," Anxi waved his hand, "This area was the seabed hundreds of thousands of years ago, and these shell fragments can be seen everywhere in this area."

From the map, the cornfield in Anxi is less than 2000 meters away from the coast in a straight line.In this part of the ocean long ago, there are a lot of natural shells scattered, so the soil is very rich in minerals and very soft.

Brother Xiaoyong grabbed a handful of soil and squeezed it in his hands: "It feels like sand on the beach."

Li Chengxin also grabbed a handful and played with it in his hand: "It feels more comfortable than the sand on my artificial beach."

"That's right," Anxi said with a smile, "It rained early this morning, which just moistened the sand. When the sky is sunny and dry, it's really loose beach sand."

Plants grown on loose sand, because the sand drains well, are unlikely to absorb water if the root system is not deep enough.

Therefore, these corns need to take root deep in order to produce corn.It is precisely because the roots are deep and there is still only a small amount of water, so the sweetness is concentrated and the taste is strong, which makes it a delicious corn.

On the contrary, if the soil where the corn is grown has poor drainage, the corn will absorb the rich water in the soil. In this way, if there is too much water in the corn, the sweetness will be relatively light, and it will not be so sweet. delicious.

In addition, a question that netizens have been asking in the barrage was also raised by Li Chengxin.

"Why are these corns so short?"

The reason for saying this is that the average corn grows as tall as a person and is about two meters high. In an ordinary corn field, people have to push aside the corn stalks with both hands to see the front.

And these corns, including the previous yellow corn and the current white corn, are only about 1.2 meters high.

"Because we are close to the sea, there has been strong winds since early spring, and even trees can be blown down," Anxi explained, "so we usually choose shorter corn varieties."

While explaining this, a gust of wind blew away Li Chengxin's peaked cap.

The two-meter-high corn is easily blown down by the wind, and often falls in a large area, causing great economic losses to farmers. This is one of the reasons for the emergence of shorter varieties of "lodging resistance".

The lodging-resistant corn variety is not easy to be blown down by the wind, and because it is very short, only one corn can be produced on one corn plant, which is also one of the advantages of this variety.

Ordinary corn plants usually produce 3 corns, but the most delicious one is only the first one at the top, the second and third ones are often unsightly or malnourished, and in most cases will be processed into other Corn by-products.

The corn varieties grown in Anxi do not grow very tall, and most of them can only produce one corn, so the nutrients of the entire plant are supplied to this one corn, which is one of the reasons why his corn is so sweet.

The sign of corn maturity is that all the silks of the corn have turned brown. Taking this as a standard, Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong began to harvest corn.

The corn field in Anxi can harvest an average of [-] mature corns every day. When there are student activities in the corn field, although the harvest will be somewhat uneven, more corn can be harvested.

Here, Li Chengxin is still discussing the corn harvest information with Anxi, while Brother Xiaoyong can't wait to start breaking the corn. While advancing in the corn field, he put the broken corn on the other hand. Just broke off the corn cobs full of arms.

Anxi was stunned. He had long been accustomed to the efficiency of elementary school students breaking corn while playing around. This time he looked at Brother Xiaoyong's harvest efficiency and said: "This is the first time I have seen this method."

"Really?" Brother Xiaoyong was also surprised, "I used to help people with farm work in the countryside, and we have always harvested corn like this."

At this time, the corn in Brother Xiaoyong's hands had already piled up high and there were dozens of them.

Li Chengxin imitated Brother Xiao Yong and put the corn cobs in his hands. However, after a few bases, he dropped them due to poor balance. In the end, like An Xi, he dragged a small plastic basket in the corn field. Put the corn one by one into the basket.

With the morning dew corn, after taking it back to Anxi’s warehouse, they started to pack it as soon as possible, and the shipment was due before noon. In this way, it could be put on the shelves in supermarkets in Beijing at noon the next day.

(End of this chapter)