How to plant prickly ash seeds

Zanthoxylum bungeanum is an indispensable seasoning when making spicy dishes in our daily life. Many people want to know whether small prickly ash seeds can grow pepper. How to plant prickly ash seeds?

How to plant prickly ash seeds

1. The soil for planting Zanthoxylum bungeanum should be deep, loose and fertile, with good drainage conditions, and can accept sufficient sunlight, preferably sandy soil. The rabbits were ploughed deeply before planting and applied with rotten organic fertilizer and urea, and the beds were made after finishing.

2. Zanthoxylum bungeanum seed shell is hard, oily, impervious and difficult to germinate. Skim treatment and storage should be carried out before sowing. Sow in autumn, soak the seeds in alkaline water, 1kg seeds with alkaline 0.025kg, the added water should not exceed the seeds, soak for 2 days and start scrubbing the seed coat oil, then remove it and rinse with clean water to sow the seeds.

3. Spring sowing can use several methods to deal with seeds, such as stratified sand storage, mixing of cow dung, mixed pile of horse manure or small cellar storage. Stratified sand storage is the conventional treatment method; cow dung mixed with 6 parts of fresh cow dung and 1 part of prickly ash seeds, mixed evenly, buried in a pit with a depth of 30 cm for winter storage, taken out and broken before sowing in the second spring, and sowed together with cow dung; horse manure mixed pile from mid-March to mid-April, put the water-selected Zanthoxylum bungeanum seeds and 3 parts of horse dung in the sun, turned and exposed, and sowed seeds; small cellar storage is dug cellar irrigation for winter storage.

4. In the spring drought area, it is better to sow before the soil is frozen in autumn. The seedlings in small beds can be sowed with trench strips, 4 rows per row, 20 cm in row spacing, 5 cm in depth, 1 cm in soil cover, sowing 4-6kg per mu, covering the bed with grass to keep moisture after sowing, and peeling off the seedlings in stages after emergence. The method of ridge cultivation can also be used to raise seedlings.

5. The seedling seeds of Zanthoxylum bungeanum bungeanum were unearthed for a long time in autumn, which is earlier than that sown in spring, so in arid areas or where the soil of the seedling bed is heavy, plastic film or wheat straw can be used after sowing, and water can be sprayed during drought, but it can not be flooded, and the soil of the seedling bed can be kept moist. When the seedlings grow to 3-4 cm high and have 3-4 true leaves, the seedlings are fixed when the seedling height reaches 10 cm, and the seedling spacing is about 5 cm, leaving 20-30 thousand seedlings per mu. At the same time, timely irrigation and topdressing, ploughing and loosening soil, improving soil permeability, removing seedbed weeds, controlling diseases and insect pests, and ensuring the healthy growth of Zanthoxylum bungeanum seedlings.

It is not difficult to plant prickly ash seeds, mainly to pick out the seeds in the early stage and do a good job of accelerating germination, so that they can germinate smoothly.