When is a good time to pick peppers?

It is better to pick peppers from August to September every year.

Picking peppers should be done on a sunny day after dew. Pay attention to whether the fruits are ripe or not when picking, so as not to affect the quality of peppers too early or too late. Zanthoxylum bungeanum grows on the top of the tree, and there are thorns on the branches. When picking, you can pick the ear from the root of the ear by hand or cut it with scissors. When harvesting with scissors, be careful not to damage the top flower bud, and don't cut it with twigs, which will also reduce the yield of pepper in the coming year.

After picking the pepper, choose a sunny day, spread the fresh pepper and dry it naturally. It takes about 2 days to dry, but pay attention to drying, otherwise it will be easy to get moldy during storage. If it rains in the middle of drying, you'd better collect the peppers in time. After drying, its shell will crack and the seeds inside will naturally fall off. At this time, it is ok to collect pepper particles.

Pepper planting techniques

Choose sandy land with fertile soil, good drainage, abundant water, a certain slope and sunny and leeward as nursery land. After selecting the seedling plot, it is necessary to turn over the land once and use 5000 kilograms of fully decomposed organic fertilizer every 667 square meters to improve the survival rate of pepper seedlings. Sowing can be carried out in spring or autumn, and drilling is usually used.

The depth of the sowing ditch is usually 5 cm, the amount of seeds per 667 square meters is 8- 10 kg, and the seed spacing is about 25 cm. After sowing, cover a layer of 2 cm fine soil, and then water it effectively, with the soil surface wet as the degree. After sowing 15 days, the seeds can emerge one after another, and it is advisable to fix the seedlings at one time after all the seedlings emerge, so as to keep the seedling spacing at about 10 cm.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Zanthoxylum bungeanum.