When are chili peppers harvested, why do they grow pointing upward, and what pesticides to use for pests and diseases before and after flowering?

Facing heaven pepper, also known as small chili pepper or skyward pepper, has white flowers, with a flowering period from early May to late July. The whole plant is used as medicine; the rhizome is warm in nature and sweet in taste, and can dispel wind and cold, relax muscles and activate collaterals, and also has insecticidal and anti-itching effects.So when are planted facing heaven peppers harvested? Why do they grow pointing upward? What pesticides to spray for pests and diseases before and after flowering?

When are planted facing heaven peppers harvested?

1. Facing heaven pepper is generally grown as an annual, planted in spring and harvested in autumn. The sowing season is March to April in spring.

2. Facing heaven pepper can flower and fruit multiple times and be harvested multiple times. It should be picked when the fruit is fully mature and capsaicin, lycopene, and vitamin C have reached their highest content, with the fruit skin appearing bright red and glossy. This is the best time to pick! After picking, apply topdressing, and you can harvest continuously!

3. From flowering to commercial fruit maturity (green ripe stage), the fruit needs 25~40 days. Different varieties require different numbers of days: early-maturing varieties need 25~30 days, while late-maturing varieties need 35~40 days. From flowering to physiological maturity takes 45~60 days, but in protected cultivation in winter when temperatures are very low, it takes 60~100 days from flowering to physiological maturity, and some late-maturing varieties take as long as about 110 days.

4. Fruits of five-color peppers grown in open fields generally begin to mature successively in mid to late August. They should be harvested and cut in time to promote growth and improve economic returns. The cut mature peppers can be sold on the market or strung up and hung in a ventilated and dry place to dry into dried peppers, to be kept for consumption or sold as commercial peppers.

Why do facing heaven peppers grow pointing upward?

The flowers of facing heaven pepper are at the tips of the branches. Because this is beneficial for pollen dispersal, its fruits are also at the branch tips. It is also a sun-loving plant, so it grows pointing upward. The fruits are light, and the fibers of the branches and leaves are highly tough, so the fruits grow pointing upward and do not droop. Ordinary peppers droop because they have high water content and heavy fruits.

What pesticides to spray for pests and diseases before and after facing heaven pepper flowering?

1. Common diseases include phytophthora blight, which can infect both seedlings and adult plants. When seedlings are affected, the stem base shows dark green water-soaked soft rot and damping-off. Spray or drench in time with 50% metalaxyl wettable powder at 800 times dilution, or 64% oxadixyl wettable powder at 500 times dilution for control. Cottony leak, which can occur in both seedlings and adult plants.

2. Viral disease. In the early stage of occurrence, use virus A, virazole, agricultural streptomycin, etc. for spray control, and at the same time add insecticides such as imidacloprid, acetamiprid, veratrine, and kung fu.

3. Pepper anthracnose. You can use prochloraz manganese salt, procymidone, dithianon, difenoconazole + azoxystrobin, picoxystrobin plus foliar fertilizer for spray control. Spray once more at an interval of 5 days.

4. Pepper stem base rot. You can choose fludioxonil, or copper ammonia complex, or hymexazol, or metalaxyl-hymexazol, Bacillus subtilis, ethylicin, or thiram to spray and drench the roots for control, once every 5~6 days, alternating medications, for 2~3 consecutive treatments.

5. Facing heaven pepper little leaf disease. Choose morpholine guanidine hydrochloride, ningnanmycin, morpholine guanidine copper acetate, mushroom polysaccharide, amino-oligosaccharin + cell division agent + zinc for spray control, then spray again at an interval of 5-7 days, for 2-3 consecutive sprays.