Chapter 56 Chapter 56 Peppers in the 20th Century

I suddenly felt a kind of sadness. Now that I think about it, I really want to eat the chili pepper I had when I was a child. It was only the chili pepper in the late 1960s. At that time, the small bell peppers had thin skins and tender seeds, and when they matured, they were soft and green. Yes, if you want it to be spicy, wait for a while. Once the pepper is white...it will be very spicy when it turns red, although it is still a green pepper. If I have a little bit of thinking and keep the chili seeds from the 1960s, in another 10 or 20 years, they will become cultural relics. I can buy a piece of land and separate it from the outside world, and plant an acre of 1960s Friends please try the chili.The thought was just a flash in my head, and I didn't have a single 1960s chili on hand.The current agricultural technology also tends to aim at yield and profit, instead of giving priority to quality and the original taste of pepper.The peppers grown by people are mutating every year, and the situation is getting worse. The soul of the pepper is lost, and the peppers that can be encountered are all the faces of an engineering academician who is fattened and thick.

Here, I only want to record the botanical characteristics of peppers in the 20th century, because the Israeli peppers and Dutch peppers introduced today grow vines, from the traditional tree-shaped peppers to the vine-shaped ones. Ah, let me collect some seeds today. It's not impossible. The root group of pepper is distributed within 30 cm of soil layer, the stems are erect, yellow-green, with dark green longitudinal stripes, purple veins can be seen occasionally, and the base is lignified.Peppers bloom forked and grow while blooming. Generally, they are bifurcated branches, and there are also trifurcated branches. Small fruit varieties have more branches and tall plants.There is also a very small ground pepper, about 20 centimeters high, long and small linear Chaotian pepper, which is extremely spicy.

Between the branches of the pepper, the internodes are more obvious. When the main stem grows to 5-15 leaves, the terminal buds differentiate into flower buds, and the first flower blooms.The side buds under the flowers are branched out, and the top buds of the side branches are differentiated into flower buds, and the second flower is bloomed... After that, one or more flowers will bloom at each fork.Clusterflowers are two or more flowers that bloom at a fork.The single leaves of pepper are alternate, ovoid, lanceolate or elliptic, with a sharp apex, smooth and slightly shiny leaves.Complete flowers, small, solitary or clustered with 1-3 flowers, corolla white or greenish white.The base of the calyx is connected into a calyx tube, which is bell-shaped, with 5 teeth at the apex.Corolla connate at base, 5-lobed at apex, nectaries at base, 5-6 stamens, 1 pistil, 2-chambered ovary.

Peppers are very outcrossing crops. Different types of peppers should be planted with a 500-meter isolation zone, otherwise they will automatically outcross, and as a result, anomalies will occur. If it is not intentional, it must be highly guarded.Berries, pericarp fleshy; septa arise at sutures of carpels.Fruit body straight curved or spiral, smooth surface, usually with ventral grooves, depressions or transverse folds.The fruit shape depends on the number of carpels, generally two carpels, with cone, short cone, horn, horn, elongate, cylindrical, prismatic, linear, etc.The top of the fruit is pointed, blunt, blunt and other shapes.The fruit hangs down, or upwards, or somewhere in between.Seeds reniform, light yellow, ovules curved.The thousand-grain weight is 4.5-7.5 grams.The seed life span is 3-7 years.

The lifespan of this seed is only seven years. If it is to be preserved, it must be planted once every seven years. The frequency of planting should be as little as possible to prevent unclean seeds from outcrossing with it.I found that the biological nature of this era is declining, the species of plants are degraded, and animals are degrading on a large scale. Based on the fact that a new era of collection has arrived, it is the collection of seeds.Yes, maybe it is a psychological effect, maybe it is true. I went back to the south to climb mountains on May 1st Labor Day in 2000, and suddenly found that the asparagus in the mountains was growing a little crazy. I was going to accuse those who used chemical fertilizers to persecute plants People, but think that asparagus is a wild thing.But there is one plant that I have not seen, and that is cress.Cress is a kind of wild celery that I like to eat. It grows by the river or lake.Cress is very warm in nature and slightly sweet. I always picked it up and ate it when I was a child.The current water...is gone!

Regarding peppers, I think there must be a specimen plan, and I want to save the small bell peppers that I loved as a child.In addition, I also hope that the peppers in the northwest can enter the axis of the peppers in the Yangtze River. The peppers are so beautiful, circled in a circle, it looks like a neon light that is about to flash.