Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 277 (revised)

After the two hunting expeditions involving compound bows were over, the snow season arrived again.

Before the snow season, Jiang Luoluo collected the last batch of seeds.

Several plants that could normally grow into a batch in a month now take three months to grow and be harvested due to Jiang Luoluo's artificial growth-inducing methods.

Previously, we could harvest five or six times a year, but now, we can only harvest twice a year at most.

The advantage is that even though Jiang Luoluo did not deliberately develop the quantity, the number of seeds of several plants that could not detect natural enemies and had no competitors "exploded" in terms of seed quantity.

Of course, it could also be because they no longer need to compete with other plants for nutrients, so they can focus all their energy on reproduction.

The increase in the number of fruits has, to some extent, compensated for the longer growing period.

However, compared to other crops, the shamans still preferred the kind that grew quickly. They believed that growing quickly meant a quick harvest, and that the quantity was far more important than the taste.

Jiang Luoluo was used to the quick planting and harvesting experience before, and she also felt that the growing time was too long, which was a bit annoying.

He then began to think about whether there was any way to improve the taste of these plants while also increasing their growth rate.

The first solution that came to Jiang Luoluo's mind was hybridization, but hybridization had too many drawbacks—for Jiang Luoluo, there were too many disadvantages to her in achieving hybridization.

For example, if there isn't enough time, special personnel are needed to observe and record the data, and various control groups are required. It would take at least a decade, if not decades.

However, who in the tribe would have so much free time to help her complete this task? Even Jiang Luoluo herself probably couldn't do it.

She would go crazy if she had to do only this one thing for more than ten years.

Fortunately, this world was not the one Jiang Luoluo was familiar with, so she came up with another solution.

It is known that these plants developed their rapid growth rate due to fierce competition, and their growth rate slowed down because they lacked competitors and obtained a sufficiently safe and stable living environment.

Is there any possibility?

We artificially create competitors for them, stimulating their predatory instincts to grow, while controlling those competing plants to prevent them from posing a real threat.

To think even further, what if... their competitors weren't those "weed" plants, but another kind of useful plant?

This results in both sides competing for the same land, but neither can gain the upper hand, leading to continuous competition and efforts to grow.

Of course, this is a challenge for those who care for plants. They need to have a deep understanding of the relationships between plants and be able to see their relative strengths and weaknesses. They need to be able to provide timely support to the weaker plants without letting them turn the tables.

However, the advantage of this method is that it does not require a long period of trial and error; results can be seen after only a few trials.

Jiang Luoluo thought that every world has its own way of living, and she couldn't completely replicate and copy everything she knew from her previous world. She needed to learn new methods that were in line with the understanding of this world.

However, with the snow season approaching, Jiang Luoluo could only store the plant seeds and wait for the weather to warm up next year before trying them again.

As for the candidate, Jiang Luoluo also had a choice—happy.

happy awakened her beast form this year, but she is not the type who is good at fighting or likes fighting. Her next path is to learn about various plants and herbs from her father and become a member of the shaman's herb-gathering team.

When the shaman needs something, he goes to the Taz Forest to collect herbs. When he doesn't need something, he takes turns looking after the shaman's herb garden and helping to manage it.

Unlike hunting and mining teams, members of the herb-gathering team must first undergo a year of training to learn the habits of most plants and know the processing methods of most herbs before they can go to the Taz Forest.

Unlike a hunting team, where hunting is a form of learning, or a mining team, where you have to arrive at the location before you can start learning, a herb-gathering team is actually a place that relies more on "brains".