Black pepper

Black pepper — 5Crop stages

  • Training and spike shedding

    Weed twice, in June–July and October–November. Train vines onto the standards; prune excess foliage of the standards and keep them about 6 m high. To reduce spike shedding, the source lists a 1% diammonium phosphate foliar spray four times (May, June, July and August).

    Pending expert review
    Source
    Crop Production Guide – Horticulture Crops 2020 (Directorate of Horticulture and Plantation Crops, Tamil Nadu & Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU)), Pepper – Aftercultivation; fruit drop, pp. 165–166
    Region
    Tamil Nadu
    Last updated
    2026-11-05