Chapter 261

Chapter 261 Universal Super Rootstock Magic Plant

In front of the magic field in his botanical garden, Locke transplanted a seedling grown from a seed obtained from the giant blue owl banana onto a branch of a sycamore tree using the grafting method.

Locke used a medium-level magical item covered with runes, a grafting knife specially used by formal breeders for grafting, cultivation, and cutting magical plants, to cut open the trunk of the sycamore tree, which had almost all its branches and leaves cut off, leaving only a few main trunks.

He carefully cut a V-shaped wound just below the bark.

Then, Locke carefully inserted the seedling of the big blue banana into the V-shaped cut of the sycamore tree and tied it up with a thin wire. This is the “skin bud grafting method” in the grafting cultivation method.

At present, Locke has mastered the ten common grafting methods under the general category of grafting cultivation.

These ten common grafting methods correspond to the grafting methods between different types of magic plants.

The Great Blue Owl Banana is a perennial herbaceous magical plant, in other words, a kind of grass. To graft the grass onto a tree, the most common grafting method, the [cut grafting method], cannot be used.

A special [skin-bud grafting method] must be used.

Only in this way can the large green owl banana, which is a grass, be grafted onto this sycamore tree.

If the average breeder does not realize this, the grafting will fail from the beginning.

Therefore, the theoretical level of breeders also largely determines the speed and quality of their results.

Locke used a [Secondary Grafting Healing Technique] and sprinkled high-quality nutrient solution, high-quality nutrient soil and high-quality fast-growing agent gel on the roots of the magic plant.

The bark of the sycamore tree glowed slightly, and it actually grew together with the seedlings of the big blue owl banana. It soon became smooth without any scars.

The seedling of the big blue owl banana grew rapidly on the trunk of the tree, and soon grew from the size of a thumb to a magical plant seedling the size of an adult’s palm.

“It actually worked this time.”

Locke was stunned for a moment, as if he couldn’t believe it himself.

In the past three months, I have synthesized countless common rootstock magic plants. After the synthesis, I began to try to graft the seedlings of the big blue owl banana onto these rootstock magic plants using the [skin bud grafting method].

The result was failure every time.

On the contrary, he became more and more proficient in using his own [skin-attached bud grafting method].

Rootstock-type magic plants that can be used as rootstocks for rare magic plants are not so easy to develop.

But this time I succeeded.

Locke looked at the sycamore tree in front of him, and at the entry on it—[Two-Ball Plane-Bell Plane Tree, a level 7 synthetic item, crafted from one medium-level Magic Plant Two-Ball Garlic Sprout and two medium-high-level Magic Plant Plane-Bell Plane Trees.]

[Rootstock-type demonic plants possess haploid, diploid, triploid, and tetraploid plant essences within their bodies. They naturally possess multiple sets of plant essences. If the juice of a certain demonic plant is injected into them, and the demonic plant does not experience a severe rejection reaction, its internal adaptability will develop.]

The interior of the two-ball plane tree will produce a variety of natural magical structural components of the “Secondary Grafting Healing Technique” to adapt to the different magical plants grafted onto it.

[The growth of the two-ball plane tree requires a large amount of magic tide. The richer the magic tide, the faster it grows.]

[Its root system is strong, its immunity is powerful, and it contains multiple natural magical components that can resist various diseases and pests. It has extremely strong vitality.]

[It requires a lot of space to grow, and it needs a specific type of sunlight labradorite to provide nutrients. It has low requirements for temperature and humidity, and will not die even if the magic tide is low. However, its growth rate is extremely slow.]

Locke put down the grafting knife, let out a breath, and felt happy.

No matter what, I have succeeded now. I grafted the seedlings of the big blue banana onto the two-ball plane tree.

This means that the large blue owl banana, which was originally afraid of a bunch of insect diseases, demonic fungal diseases and other diseases, had a lot of requirements and even could not meet some of the requirements and could not grow successfully, can be directly grafted onto the two-ball plane tree, which has strong vitality, relatively less harsh growth conditions, and has multiple disease resistance.

This is equivalent to turning the difficulty of cultivating a large green banana tree into the difficulty of cultivating a two-ball plane tree.

Although the difficulty of cultivating the two-ball sycamore tree is still above average among the middle and high-level magical plants.

Because it’s a woody magical plant, it grows relatively slowly. But using it as a rootstock would allow for mass production of both the Great Green Owl Banana and the Great Green Leaf Banana!

Locke could even extract essence from rare magical plants like the Morass Amorphophallus, Clivia, and Black Lock Sword Bamboo, and inject it into the Two-Ball Plane Tree to see if it could adapt.

As long as it can be adapted, the two-ball plane tree can also be used as the rootstock for their production.

Rootstock-type magic plants are magic plants that are naturally suitable for grafting.

For example, the two-ball sycamore tree, this magical plant actually contains multiple sets of plant essences naturally.

One set of plant essence contains all the genes of a magic plant; a magic plant with two sets of the same plant essence is a diploid magic plant.

A magic plant that possesses three sets of the same magic plant essence is called a triploid magic plant.

Similarly, those who have four sets are quadruple magic plants.

Most animals are diploid (having two sets of identical blood essence, so that if one set is damaged, the other can be repaired), otherwise they will be unable to reproduce or will mutate.

But the magic plant is special. It can have polyploidy, so its mutation ability is also strong.

But even if it is an ordinary magic plant, you are either diploid, triploid, or haploid.

However, the two-ball sycamore tree is actually a mixed ploid, which provides a basis for it to be used as a universal rootstock magic plant in terms of plant essence.

At the same time, after adapting to the plant essence of a magical plant, the two-ball sycamore tree can secrete a variety of magical structural components for secondary grafting and healing, which will make it easy to become a rootstock.

Locke was in a good mood. In this way, he was equivalent to providing a method for mass production of rare magical plants.

“We can start breeding multiple large blue owl bananas right away, and at the same time, try grafting other rare magic plants I have.” Locke said, “We need to make these rare magic plants something that anyone can buy.”

“Then I will have a vast resource of magic.”

“But now that I have a direction, I need a lot of manpower to quickly expand and strengthen and harvest resources,” Locke pondered. “This will be a super project.”

“At the same time, the very existence of this universal super-rootstock magical plant signifies immense value!”

The gray dwarf servant walked into the botanical garden, saluted Locke, and told Locke that a powerful wizard was coming to visit.

Locke frowned and ordered the servant to put his grafting knife back to the tool storage room. Then he left the plantation and went to his residence.

Locke actually saw the first-class wizard apprentice Carrie Ackerman in front of his residence. She was Angron’s first-class wizard apprentice assistant in Angron’s studio and his junior sister.

At this time, Carrie Ackerman was still dressed beautifully, and the wizard robe on her body had been specially modified to be graceful and fit her body curves.

Moreover, Carrie Akerman also painted her nails, drew eyeliner, and dressed very fashionably. She looked more like a socialite in the circle of noble ladies than a wizard.

But this time, when Carrie Ackerman saw him, she didn’t make sarcastic remarks or pretend not to see him. Instead, she gave him a flattering smile, which was very fawning, as if she was very close to him.

“Senior Locke, hello.” Carrie Ackerman gave Locke a slight bow, giving him the proper respect. “Senior, you’re still as charming and wise as ever. I learned a lot from you back at the treatment center.”

“Today, I came here specially to invite you to a banquet.”

Locke frowned slightly.

Carrie Ackerman quickly said, “My teacher, Harlan Vera, and the academy’s senior advisor, Francis, invite you to dinner in the witch kitchen. Harlan Vera will be treating.”

Locke looked at Carrie Ackerman strangely, not understanding why this woman treated him like this.

Although Carrie Ackerman had respected her extremely before and didn’t dare to be arrogant, she wouldn’t be as flattering as she is now.

Her current attitude towards him was exactly the same as her daily attitude towards Angron. The way she looked at him was full of admiration and respect.

Locke’s brows twitched. Could it be?

(End of this chapter)