The best time to pick tea seeds is around late September (the fall equinox) to early November (winter).

The harvesting season of tea oil trees varies with different varieties of oil tea. Referring to the life habit of oil tea and the maturity period of oil tea fruits, the oil tea trees are categorized as follows: Autumn Equinox Seeds, Cold Dew Seeds, Frost Seeds, and Winter Seeds, and then linked to the twenty-four seasons, which means that the season for picking tea seeds is from late September (Autumn Equinox) to early November (Winter) around the same time. Tea seeds from oil tea fruits picked during the normal ripening period have an oil yield of about 30% or even higher.

The tea seeds must be picked before the frost, otherwise the harvest is not very good. After the frost, tea seeds certainly higher oil rate, but it is afraid of the cold, tea seeds will be in the tree skin open, black nuts will fall, fell to the flat ground okay, can be picked up or swept up in time. But the tea tree is usually grown in the mountains, everywhere is a bush, tea seeds fall down is very difficult to pick up.

Tea Seed Classification:

Tea seed, according to its growth is divided into the seeds of the oil tea tree and the seeds of the tea tree, that is, the oil tea seeds and tea seeds, both of which can be extracted oil for consumption. The nutritional value of tea seed oil can be comparable to olive oil, or even higher, is a high-grade edible oil. Because it is endemic to China, it is also known as the "Oriental olive oil".