When is the right time to pick peppers?

Zanthoxylum bungeanum is usually harvested from July to September.

Mature characteristics of Zanthoxylum bungeanum: When the leaves of Zanthoxylum bungeanum appear bright and shiny, the fruit turns red or purple, the epidermis is covered with warty protrusions with obvious oil spots, transparent and shiny, the seeds turn black, the epidermis is easy to crack and the fragrance is strong and spicy, it can be picked.

Choose sunny days to pick peppers.

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Picking method of pepper

When picking the whole ear, you should pay attention to cutting off the ear stalk by hand or scissors to avoid picking pepper particles by hand, so as not to crush the oil cells on the pepper fruit and reduce its color, aroma and taste, and affect its economic value. After picking, gently put it into the basket, and at the same time, it is not advisable to put too much, so as to avoid the oil cells on the peel being squeezed and collided, which will affect the quality.

When picking, hold the fruit branch with one hand, and pick the ear from the base of the fruit branch with the other hand, so as to keep the total axis of the ear as much as possible. The second is to protect the leaves. After the pepper is harvested, all the nutrients produced by the leaves are converted into nutrient accumulation. During the period from pepper picking to overwintering (the end of 10), we should try our best to keep the leaves intact, enhance photosynthesis and accumulate more nutrients.

After picking, pay close attention to drying, and do the following:

1. Sunny weather should be selected for picking, and rainy days or dewy picking should be avoided.

2. Sun while harvesting, harvest in the morning, sun at noon and try to sun on the same day in the afternoon. When drying in the air, spread it out in the house and don't pile it up, otherwise it will increase the breathing intensity and be easy to get moldy.

3. When drying, be sure to spread reed mats and support them with wooden sticks to facilitate ventilation. Don't spread it too thick in the air, about 3 cm is the most suitable, and stir it with bamboo every 0.5- 1 hour.

4. Don't directly expose to the sun on the cement floor, which will easily burn the embryo seeds and affect the emergence rate and oil yield.

5. In case of continuous rainy weather during harvesting, the fruit must be spread out, the doors and windows should be opened, the air should be turned frequently, and ventilation should be paid attention to. If necessary, it can be baked with refractory materials. At present, the pepper dryer has been used in production, which basically eliminates the harm caused by rainy weather.

Wonderful use of pepper

1. Treatment of toothache: Put one or two liquors into the boiled pepper water, dip them with a clean cotton swab, and then put them into the toothache to take a bite, which will soon relieve the pain. However, the cause of toothache cannot be removed, and medical treatment is needed in time.

2. Prevent rice worms: first prepare a paper towel, then beat a spoonful of peppers, then wrap the peppers with paper towels, and finally put the paper towels into the rice pile. In this way, the effect of preventing rice from being infected by insects can be achieved.

3. Cure cold diarrhea: Blow air conditioners, eat cold drinks and drink beer with several people in summer. When abdominal pain and diarrhea are caused by catching cold or eating too much cold, pepper can be used to treat them.

Methods: 6 grams of Zanthoxylum bungeanum and 3 grams of nutmeg were decocted in water and applied quickly in the morning and evening. 1 dose per day 1 5 days, basically nothing will happen. Zanthoxylum bungeanum can dispel cold, remove dampness and stop diarrhea, while nutmeg has the effects of warming the middle warmer, astringent intestine, promoting qi circulation and promoting digestion. This method can eliminate dampness and stop diarrhea, and it can also treat wind-cold diarrhea in summer.

4. Reduce the number of mouse hands: "Mouse hands" not only have swollen wrists and inflexible fingers, but also severe pain will be transferred to arms, shoulders and neck. At this time, you can try soaking pepper water. The volatile oil contained in Zanthoxylum bungeanum has the function of local anesthesia and analgesia, which can alleviate the pain caused by "mouse hand" to some extent.

Methods: Take a proper amount of pepper, add water to boil it into pepper water, cool it to the temperature that your hands can bear, and then soak and scrub it.

5. Increase appetite: Zanthoxylum smells fragrant, and many meats have a fishy smell. When cooking these meats, you can put some pepper, which can remove the fishy smell, promote saliva secretion and increase appetite.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Zanthoxylum bungeanum

References:

People's Network-Zanthoxylum bungeanum is not just a condiment. These five uses are wonderful.