Chapter 77: Pollination of the Flower
Harold returned to the laboratory and immediately started his research. He opened the iron door that locked Ada, glanced at Ada, and Ada followed him timidly.
After being sliced by Haroldt for the first time, its fear of this man reached a new level, but it knew that if it did not cooperate it would be beaten and dragged away, so it had to obey Haroldt's arrangements.
Haroldt fixed Ada on the experimental bed and knocked him unconscious with a brick (book) when he was not paying attention. This time he was going to dissect the head, so he had to give Ada physical anesthesia.
Then he used a knife to make a small cut on the side of its head. The head was hollow but the walls were thick, so he cut it like he was cutting a melon.
After making a small incision one finger long and four fingers wide, Haroldt held up a small flashlight and looked inside through the incision.
There actually is a stamen inside, which means that the flower may really be able to reproduce sexually!
"...There is only a stigma. Does this mean that the lily of the valley is actually a unisexual flower? And Ada is a girl?" Harold whispered to himself.
Then he used tweezers to hold a cotton swab and touched the stigma of A Da's style through the incision. In order to complete artificial pollination, the pistil and pollen must be mature.
He didn't know how to judge the maturity of the reproductive organs of the flower, so he could only use a general method: observe whether the stigma of the pistil secretes mucus.
After taking out the cotton swab, a layer of transparent mucus was clearly seen on it. Haroldt put Ada back with satisfaction, and then called out Aer, Asan, Awu and Aliu and tied them to the experimental bed to perform the same operation.
A Da, A Er, and A Wu are female flowers with only one style in their heads. A San and A Liu are male flowers with hundreds of stamens in their heads. The anthers on the stamens are cracked, which means that the pollen is mature and can be pollinated.
So Haroldt used a small brush to gently sweep the pollen of Asan and Liu into a paper cup, then disinfected their wounds, applied protective agent on the wounds, and taped the cut pieces back with adhesive tape. This would speed up the healing of the wounds. He started using this method to graft broken branches for the Pianpian flower a month ago.
Then he used a brush dipped in pollen to brush the stigmas of Ada, Aer and Awu, making sure they were fully pollinated before sewed up their wounds.
Although after carefully observing the structure of the head of the Phantom Flower, Harold believed that most of the pollen of the Phantom Flower entered the corolla through the tubes close to the head and mixed with the Phantom Flower nectar and would not diffuse in the air. The stamens of the female Phantom Flower were not exposed. The gender of the only Phantom Flower with thunder attribute had not been confirmed, and it was far away from the cage of Ada and the others.
But for the sake of the rigor of the research, Haroldt still wrapped their corollas in fire-proof bags after pollination and wrote the pollination date on them.
There were too few experimental materials, Harold thought helplessly. He used five of the flowers to extract nectar, and five of the flowers to study "the impact of nectar accumulation on the flowers."
As for Xiao Shiba, that is the only Deceptive Flower with thunder attribute and high IQ. Without confirming that his actions are harmless to the Deceptive Flowers, he cannot take action against Xiao Shiba, so he can only conduct pollination research on these five Deceptive Flowers first.
It seemed that he needed to purchase another batch of Pian Pian Flowers. It happened that he had just received a large sum of Mora, so it was no problem for him to buy twenty Pian Pian Flowers at a time, which cost one million each.
Haroldt planned to observe for a while. He didn't know whether the Lippodium would bear fruit and produce seeds after pollination, nor did he know whether they would die after that. He needed to confirm the number of Lippodiums he needed to purchase based on these data.
Then, he took out some of the remaining pollen, mixed it with feed, and fed it to ten mice. He then fed the nectar of A Da, A Er, and A Wu to three groups of mice (ten in each group). These three nectars are female flowers and do not produce pollen, so their nectar does not contain pollen.
Through this experiment, he wanted to confirm whether the mutation of the mice was related to the pollen.
After a week, Haroldt found that the size of the first group of mice had indeed increased three times, while there was no change in the other three groups.
He recorded this phenomenon and experimental data, and then took the remaining pollen of the lily of the valley mixed with water.
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Through his own experiments, he confirmed that the pollen of the bee could be used to make a drug that could improve the happiness of Xumi couples, and he also recorded this phenomenon.
During this week, he would use a flashlight to shine on the three pollinated flowers every day and observe the changes in the flowers in the bag through the light. After being pollinated, the three flowers no longer maintained their mimicry and their movements became noticeably slow. Sometimes they would stand in the same place for three or four hours, and even their natural swaying would stop. Harold suspected that they would turn back into plants.
Two weeks later, this suspicion was overturned, although their corollas gradually fell off, and the stamens in the head, or receptacle, began to swell and gradually grew into a green spherical object.
The movements of the lily of the valley became more rigid, and it remained motionless almost all day, only occasionally shaking its leaves.
After another week, the fruit turned red and expanded to three times its original size, with flame-shaped lines on it. At this time, the fruit stopped expanding. Haroldt recorded the entire process and accompanied it with a hand-drawn picture.
He did not pick the fruits immediately, but waited another week. By then, the receptacle could no longer bear the weight of the fruits, and three basketball-sized fruits fell naturally one after another.
Harold examined the three Liarflowers that had completed their breeding mission, and he kept a close eye on the flow of elemental forces in their bodies.
Although they no longer produce nectar during their reproduction period, have lost the vitality of elemental plant life forms, and no longer eat, they have not degenerated into plants. Instead, they work even harder to absorb elemental power in order to supply the development of fertilized eggs.
Harold supplies them with his elemental power every day to ensure that they get enough nutrition.
Now, elemental power is still flowing in these three flowers, which means they are not dead.
Looking at the flower that had lost its head (receptacle) but was still alive, Harold once again felt the absurdity of this world.
He continued to water and fertilize the three flowers and supply them with elemental energy. It would be great if they could recover.
After collecting the fruits and measuring their volume and weight, Harold stood in front of the laboratory table, staring at the three Liar Flower fruits and fell into deep thought.
So what should we do with these fruits? Plant them directly in the ground or wait for them to naturally develop into new flowers?
After all, the reason why the liar flower evolved into its current structure is to prevent the ovary from developing, right? Maybe in a hundred years, the liar flower's reproductive organs will completely degenerate.
I really did conduct an experiment that went against nature.
However, the fact that Hana-chan is a monster does not violate the rules of Amiribo Academy.
Haroldt thought so and tried to cut a fruit open to observe the flesh, seeds, and fruit of the deceptive flower. The fruit also has the structure that a plant fruit should have.
One seed is as big as an orange, but the number of seeds, three, is a little too little.
Forget it, three pills are not bad, at least it’s not just one, which would be the extreme one-for-one.
Haroldt thought for a moment, then took out three suitable transparent glass jars as culture dishes, mixed mud and vermiculite as the culture medium, soaked the three seeds for twelve hours and then placed them on the surface of the culture medium, and placed the culture dishes near the window so that the seeds could get sunlight.
Three days later, one of the seeds broke open and white roots sprouted from it.
Harold saw the tiny root twitched twice, and he suddenly no longer felt sleepy. He stood up, picked up the notebook beside him, and started recording, taking a few pictures with his camera from time to time.
The thing inside the seed pushed open the softened seed coat bit by bit like a snake breaking out of its shell, and crawled out with difficulty.
A mini lily flower.
The newly born Liar Flower looked very fragile. Harold didn't dare to touch it. He just watered it with some water. When it first came into contact with the rain and dew, the little Liar Flower curled up its body a little unaccustomed, but soon it stretched out its leaves to enjoy the sunshine and soil.
"June 01, was born, cm tall, g in weight, with roots left under his feet that will probably fade away as he grows, leaves are orange-yellow, corolla closed..."
Harold opened a new notebook to record the situation of the little liar flower, then cut open the remaining two fruits and obtained eight seeds. He cultivated them in a glass jar using the same method.
In the next two days, 02,03 and were born one after another. Haroldt also recorded various data of their bodies and temporarily placed them in glass tanks for cultivation and observation.
At the same time, the Dun Dun peaches he planted in the laboratory ripened. Harold picked the fruits as dessert after dinner, and then planted a few more Dun Dun peaches as potted plants.
A week later, the roots under 01's feet fell off, and the color of the leaves turned light red, making it look more like a mini fiery lily. Because he continued to supply elemental power to Ada, Aer, and Awu, they did not die, and they regrew the receptacle and corolla.
After they have fully recovered, Harold will dissect them again. He needs to confirm whether their reproductive systems are recoverable. As the owner of the Eye of God, he can save the female flowers after the Deceitful Flower reproduces, but ordinary Xumi residents certainly can't do it. Artificial breeding of Deceitful Flower is almost a 1 for 3 exchange.
If the Deceptive Plant can only reproduce in this way, their reproductive ability is too weak.
Harold looked at the mini lily plants swaying happily in the glass jar and shook his head helplessly. If the growth cycle of young lily plants is very long, it will be too difficult to artificially breed a large number of lily plants.
After a few more days, 02 and 03 also shed their roots. The growth rate of the three little flowers was extremely slow, and Harold began to try to supply elemental power to 01.
01's growth rate has accelerated to a certain extent.
During this period, he went to the port of Omos and ordered ten lily flowers from Dolly. Dolly generously gave him a 20% discount, and the total cost was 8 million Mora.
The first slime character popularity ranking list has been released. The first place in the overall list is Navirayato (Prince of Water), the second is Zhongli (Prince of Rock), and the third is Dotorei (Prince of Ice). The same rankings are placed on the male list.
The first on the female list is Fulinghua (Water Princess), the second is Kaeya (Fire Princess), and the third is Qiqix2 (Grass Princess).
"Dotore, you've made it big. You can actually be on the same list as Mr. Zhong... Our association is really like that, whoever you support becomes popular. Who is the president? It's time to buy a lottery ticket." Harold couldn't help but sigh in a low voice.
"... Princess Kusa, who didn't even have a line in the first chapter, made it into the top three? It turns out there are a lot of lolita lovers everywhere."