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How and when to plant black pepper
Pepper seedlings with medium roots should be planted in the prepared pits during planting. The vines should be supported to climb the vine support tree. From time to time they need to be supported, twisted and tied with a rope to climb the tree, until the small pepper vine climbs to the base tree. Vines should not grow more than four to five meters.
Profitable production begins three years after the planting of pepper vines. Peppers are usually harvested in May-June and bunches are ready for harvesting from January to March. When one or two seeds in a green bunch turn yellow or orange, break the bunch, then separate the peppercorns from the bunch by hand or dry the bunch in the sun on the prepared soil. This method is used only when a large number of bunches are formed at the same time. To make black pepper from green pepper, the seeds should be collected in a bamboo basket or wrapped in a thin cloth. Then keep the water boiling in a separate pot.

Once the water starts to boil, soak the pepper wrapped in a pan or phadkara in the boiling water for about a minute. Peppers soaked in boiling water should be dried in the sun on a mat or clean bed. The advantage of this method is that the seeds dry in two to three days. The seeds come in an attractive black color. No fungus. Improves pepper copy. Panniyur-1 variety yields an average of five to six kg of green chillies and weighs 1.5 to 2 kg after drying.