Black Pepper Cultivation – Calendar of Operations from August to September

Plantation

• Continue new-planting / replanting
• Undertake slash – weeding
• Tie growing shoots of young plants to the standards.
• Prune the branches of support trees to regulate shade.
• Apply 5 kg of decomposed coffee manure and 1 kg neemcake per vine with the onset of north east monsoon.
• Apply balance half dose of the recommended fertilizers (Urea-50g : Rock Phosphate-150g : MOP 125g).
• Apply second round of biocontrol agents (AMF, Trichoderma Pseudomonas fluorescens and Pochonia chlamydosporia) along with organics.
• Apply Azospirillum (50 g/vine) and P. solubilizer (50 g/vine along with decomposed cowdung.
• Spray the foliage with Bordeaux mixture 1% and drench the basin of the vines with copper oxychloride 0.2% @ of 2-5 litres/vine.
• Avoid copper oxychloride drenching if biocontrol agents are applied. OR
  Spray foliage and drench the soil with potassium phosphonate 0.3% or metalaxyl mancozeb 0.125% (@ 2-5 litres per vine).
• Undertake foliar spray with quinalphos (0.05%) or check pollu beetle and top shoot borer infestations.