One acre of land is planted with about 80 pepper plants.

Planting of Zanthoxylum bungeanum seedlings

Prepare the soil and make borders. When raising seedlings, you should choose sandy soil with leeward direction, deep soil, fertile soil and good drainage. Apply 2,000 to 3,000 kilograms of manure per acre, plow deeply and harrow, and then level the fields to make a border with a width of 1 meter.

Panthoxylum bungeanum seed treatment

Panthoxylum bungeanum seed shell is hard, oily and waxy, and moisture cannot penetrate the seeds, making germination more difficult, so it needs to be degreased. Before sowing in autumn, soak the seeds in an alkaline solution (25 grams of alkaline surface for 1 kilogram of seeds, add water to submerge the seeds), remove the seeds, soak them for two days, scrub away the oil on the seed coat, and remove them. sowing. You can also rub it with plant ash to remove the oil on the seed coat.

Sowing pepper seedlings in trenches

Sowing is usually done in late autumn before the soil freezes. Dig 4 to 5 rows of furrows in each border with a trench depth of 5 cm, and sow 10 to 12 kilograms of seeds per acre. After sowing, cover with a layer of fine soil 2 to 3 cm thick.