How to harvest Zanthoxylum bungeanum after it matures?

Pepper harvesting should be carried out in sunny weather and avoid rainy days to avoid difficulty in drying and affecting the color and flavor, resulting in a decrease in quality. When picking Zanthoxylum bungeanum, there will be a full bud between the first leaf axils under the large pepper ear. This bud is the fruiting bud for the next year. Please protect it and do not remove it. Under the weak branches and ears of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, the first bud is not fully developed, but the second or third bud is strong. When picking, the first bud is wiped out and the second and third buds are retained, which serves as a small pruning effect. effect.

When there are no strong buds on the leaf cluster branches, but only thin buds, it is difficult to develop into flower branches. Therefore, when picking, it is appropriate to remove most of the leaf cluster branches, generally leaving one third of the missing branches. The leaf cluster branches should be appropriately retained to cultivate strong fruiting branches, enrich the space, and expand the fruiting part. Try to avoid breaking the oil glands on the surface of Zanthoxylum bungeanum fruit, so as not to affect the quality of Zanthoxylum bungeanum.

Manual hand-picking of Chinese prickly ash is currently the most important collection method at home and abroad. It can pick those that are ripe first and those that are ripe last. Its main disadvantages are that the thorns can easily prick your hands during picking, the speed is very slow, and the work efficiency is low.

After harvesting Zanthoxylum bungeanum. The tree begins to make full use of the nutrients produced by the leaves to accumulate nutrients. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the protection of leaves. In addition to the necessary prevention and control of pests and diseases, foliar fertilization can also be carried out to increase the chlorophyll in the leaves and increase photosynthesis.

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Methods of Zanthoxylum bungeanum:

(1) Pick at the right time. The maturity period of Zanthoxylum bungeanum fruit is greatly affected by the variety, climate, and region. It is difficult to determine the harvest period due to different varieties, ecology, management level and maturity period. Generally, July to September is the harvest period.

(2) Mature external characteristics: When the leaves of Zanthoxylum bungeanum appear oily and shiny, the color of the fruit turns red or purple, the peel has wart-like protrusions with obvious oil spots, is transparent and shiny, and the seeds turn black , the peel is easy to crack, and the fragrance is strong and spicy, choose to pick on a sunny day.

(3) Harvesting method: Determine the harvesting period according to the characteristics and uses of the variety, and choose to harvest on a sunny day in the morning. During harvesting, the whole ear should be picked, and the ear stems should be carefully cut off by hand or with scissors. , be careful not to pinch the pepper grains with your hands to avoid crushing the oil cells on the pepper fruit and reducing its color, aroma, taste and other qualities, affecting the economic value.

(4) After picking, place it gently in the picking basket. At the same time, the pepper fruits in the picking basket should not be packed too much to avoid squeezing and collision, which will cause the oil cells on the peel to rupture and affect the quality.

(5) Protective branch group. The biggest feature of Zanthoxylum bungeanum is that the fruiting branches have a strong ability to continuously bear fruit. The medium-long fruiting branches are basically at the top of the fruiting branches. If you use scissors to cut the flower spikes during harvesting, they can be easily cut off. The main axis of the flower spike affects the emergence of new flower spikes. The correct way is: hold the fruit branch with one hand, pinch the fruit ear from the base of the fruit branch with the other hand, and try to keep the main axis of the flower ear.

Protect the leaves. After the pepper is harvested, all the nutrients produced by the leaves are diverted to nutrient accumulation. From the time after picking the pepper to before overwintering (the end of October), the leaves should be kept as intact and dark green as possible to enhance photosynthesis. , accumulate more nutrients.

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