Song Tian looked at the tools in his hands and surprised there"s an electric toothbrush."Toothbrush? What are we going to do with this?" he couldn"t help but ask.
Pedro Costa laughed, "We"re going to pollinate these tomatoes, that toothbrush can also be used for that," he said.
Song Tian furrowed his brows, "Isn"t pollinating had something to do with the wind, bees and other animals?" he said.
Pedro Costa shook his head, "That"s not the only way, we can also pollinate the plants manually," he said.
Pedro Costa continued, "While it"s true its depend on those things you mentioned, we have to prepare the worst scenario," he said as the pollinators are slowly declining.
Pedro Costa started to guide Song Tian to find a yellow flower in the tomato plant, "There, try to shake it gently to distributes the pollens," he said.
Song Tian gently shakes the stem behind the flower, and he saw several pollens are falling down.
Pedro Costa looked at Song Tian, nodded, "Now, let"s try using the electric toothbrush on another plant to vibrates it," he said.
Song Tian started doing that, as the toothbrush touched the stem, he saw more pollens are coming out.
Several moments later, Song Tian already tried the pitch pork method and looked at the small containers Pedro Costa just handed to him.
"What should I do with this?" he asked.
Pedro Costa answered, "There are pollens inside, use a cotton swab and rub the flower stigma gently, watch me," he said as he started to demonstrate it for Song Tian.
Looking at Pedro Costa gently rubbing the flower stigma with a cotton swab, Song Tian also started to follow him.
Song Tian looked closer at the flower stigma as he slowly rubs it with the cotton swab, he"s started sweating, afraid of putting too much force in it.
"So you do this every day?" he asked.
Pedro Costa shook his head, "No, we usually do this for every two days," he said.
Pedro Costa continued, "While this method works, using pollinators are way much better as they"re doing it thoroughly," he said.
Song Tian asked, "Are any bees good for this tomato?" he said.
Pedro Costa shook his head, "No, we need the b.u.mblebee because the pollens on tomato are held firmly inside the anther," he said.
Pedro Costa continued, "b.u.mblebees can use their flight muscle rapidly, vibrating their whole bodies while attaching itself to the anther and makes pollens coming out from that," he said.
Pedro Costa told Song Tian the vibrating method is called buzz pollination, it"s a technique used by some bees such as solitary bees and b.u.mblebees.
Song Tian found out that honey bees can"t do the buzz pollination.
There are several plants pollinated by buzz pollination such as eggplants, tomatoes, potatoes, blueberries, and others.
Song Tian also learned about the self-pollination, cross-pollination, how to attract bees and other stuff.
Pedro Costa slowly explained as he didn"t want Song Tian to get overwhelmed by a lot of information.
After that, Pedro Costa led Song Tian to prune some of the crops on the field and surprised to find Song Tian is already know how to do it efficiently.
After both of them finished pruning some crops, Pedro Costa led Song Tian to harvest some cocoa beans.
Looking at the pod on his hand, Song Tian sighed, "I can"t believe the chocolate is coming from this," he said.
Pedro Costa laughed, "I also used to think that. Anyway, follow me," he said as he picked the containers.
After handing the containers to Pedro Costa"s worker, both of them went to the chocolate factory.
Song Tian surprised to see the factory turned out to be the huge building on the right side near the entrance he saw earlier.
As he walked inside, Song Tian saw a lot of workers processing the cocoa beans.
He saw the workers pressing the b.u.t.ton on a huge machine he didn"t even know about, and he also saw some of them are maintaining the machine next to it.
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Pedro Costa led him to a table with lots of cocoa beans on top of it, he told him those are the beans scooped out from the pods they harvested earlier, and it"s already fermented and roasted.
Song Tian poured the beans on the top of special juicer to crack the cocoa bean and separates the sh.e.l.l from the nibs. The nibs are small crushed pieces of cocoa beans.
After that, the nibs get refined and poured into a grinding machine.
"Now these should be run overnight, and we can add sugar after that, you can come tomorrow if you want to see the process," Pedro Costa said.
Song Tian smiled bitterly as he feels he"s not ready for these huge machineries yet and it also needs a lot of workers in it.
Several moments later, Pedro Costa brings Song Tian to his barn.
Song Tian saw several breeds of cows, from Holstein, Brown Swiss and others.
As he milked the cows, Song Tian is surprised as he saw the milk had quality on it.
"Xiao Yi, why is my cow"s milk had no quality on it?" he asked.
Song Yi answered, "After you got the ability of it, your cows need to give birth on the Integrated Barn to show its stats," she said.
Song Yi continued, "You can see the stats of other cows because it"s not yours," she said.
Song Tian nodded, "So I need to breed them as soon as possible, huh?" he thought.
At 4 PM, Pedro Costa and Viviana Esparza looking at Song Tian, they seem to be reluctant for him to leave early.
"We haven"t even had dinner yet," Viviana Esparza said.
Song Tian smiled apologetically, "I need to milk my cow this evening. I"ll come to visit again," he said.
Pedro Costa laughed, "Great, just let me know if you want to come," he said.
Song Tian waved his hand to them and started to leave.
At the road, Song Tian pondered, "Since the cow"s milk had quality on it, does that mean the chicken"s egg also had it?" he thought.
Song Yi replied, "I don"t know about that, I have no access to that information vault," she said.
Song Tian asked, "How about your father? Isn"t your father also a farmer?" he said.
Song Yi giggled, "Yes, but there"s no chicken in our world," she said.
Song Yi continued, "In our world, there"s a beast similar to chicken, but it rarely produces an egg and my dad only rear it for its meat," she said.
Song Tian surprised, "Beast? It must"ve been awesome to rear a beast," he said.
Song Yi chuckled, "It"s not easy as it seems, the beast itself is very aggressive as it"s known to eat the human in our universe," she said.
Song Tian gasped, "Eat human? Darn, I hope I never go to your world," he said.
After driving for a while, Song Tian immediately milked his cows and went to his cabin to feed Song Li and Xiao Yu.
Sitting on the couch, Song Tian opened the [Farm Interface] to use his new Transplant Ability to organize his farm.
On the interface, Song Tian saw his farm from bird"s view, and he can see a lot of his crops on the field.
He can even see the crops inside the greenhouse.
"So, I can just click the crops and trees to move it, right?" he asked.
Song Yi answered, "Yes, you can also press the icons on the right side to select all of it," she said.
The icons on the right side are all the crops and trees Song Tian planted on his farm.
By pressing the icons, Song Tian can select all on the specific type of crops or trees and move them simultaneously.
Song Tian started to separate the fruit trees and move them to a new land, and Song Yi told him that he can select the area and naming it.
Song Tian started to name it orchard field.
He didn"t name the specific trees yet as he only had a total of 30 trees with extra four apple trees on his backyard.
Song Tian keeps the [1 Star High-Quality] as it"s already planted on the new field, he also named the area beside it for higher quality crops.
After looking through, Song Tian didn"t know what else to do with it, and suddenly he remembers he needs to plant orange trees for Fujiwara Ayame to trust him.
Song Tian actually can just move already planted orange trees inside the greenhouse, but he finds it wrong.
"I"d rather late for several days than doing that stuff," he muttered, and he went to order some orange saplings from Global Marketplace.
Not long after, the saplings arrived, and Song Tian immediately plants ten of them inside the greenhouse.
After watering all the saplings, Song Tian heard Song Yi"s voice rang in his mind.
"Congratulation master, for completing the Sixth Main Quest: Observe and Organize," Song Yi said, and a scroll appeared in front of Song Tian.
- Sixth Main Quest: Observe and Organize.
- Rewards: Book of Basic Crafting for Farm Volume 2, Dimensional Room, and New Items in Song Yi"s Shop.
- (Claim Now).
Song Tian eyes lit up as he saw the rewards, especially the Dimensional Room.
"This is the easiest quest I"ve ever done," he muttered.
But he still found it weird because he got the Book of Basic Crafting for Farm Volume 2 when he didn"t even read all the contents inside the volume 1 yet.