Picked after the cold dew festival, tea fruit maturity to dry time harvesting, different varieties of oil tea fruit should be the first mature first picking, after the mature picking, the same variety of mature oil tea should be in the last 7 days picking.
Must avoid picking too early, 10 days before maturity harvesting, the seed kernel oil content to be lower 7.12%, and the quality of the oil is poor. Large areas of oil tea mountain, often due to different conditions and maturity of the ground has a sequence, high mountains first, low mountains after the ripe; sunny slopes first, shady slopes after the ripe; barren mountains first, ripe mountains after the ripe, old trees first, young trees after the ripe.
Xiangnan region is mainly cold dew seed and frost seed Xining varieties, cold dew seed class in mid-October cold dew festival, frost seed class frost festival before and after harvesting. Sometimes often due to the impact of the year's climate delayed 5-10 days, high-temperature days of drought early maturity, low-temperature rain delayed maturity.
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Oil tea fruit picking should be handled in a timely manner. Fruit picking mixed with a small amount of lime, composted on the ping for 3 to 5 days, to complete the grease after maturation process, increase the oil, and then grasp the sunny days to push open and turn the sun 2 to 4 days later;
Tea fruits naturally cracked, most of the fruit of the tea seeds can be separated, not separated by artificial peeling, and then sieve扬净, and continue to dry, generally 1 to 2 days of the sun in order to make the starch and soluble sugar and other organic matter is fully converted into grease, sun Rapeseed to use soil ping or bamboo mat;
In case of rainy days can not be dried, tea seeds should be laid on a dry and ventilated floor, about 20 cm thick and evenly spread, turning 1 to 2 times a day, to prevent heat and mold, in case of sunny days in a timely manner to turn over the sun, sunshine, tea seeds should be in the collection of ventilated and dry places.