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Black Pepper vs Ginger

Both are Spice. Each axis is a percentile across all 538 crops — 80 means higher than four-fifths of the table. Where an axis is missing, the crop genuinely is not measured that way.

Black Pepper Ginger

Measure Black Pepper Ginger
Season Perennial Kharif
Sowing window Jun–Jul (planting) Apr–May
Days to harvest 3–4 yr to bear 210–240
Spacing 3 × 3 m 25 × 20 cm
Soil pH 5.5–6.5 5.5–6.5
Water 2000–3000 1300–1800
Temperature °C 20–32 20–30
Seed rate 1,100 vines 1.5–2 t rhizome
Yield 2–3 t dry 15–20 t fresh
Watch for Quick wilt, pollu beetle Soft rot, bacterial wilt

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Everything in the same group, on the figures that decide what to plant.

Crop Sow Days pH Temp °C Yield
Cardamom (Small) Jun–Jul (planting) 2–3 yr to bear 5.0–6.5 15–28 150–250 kg dry
Long Pepper (Pippali) Jun–Jul 2–3 yr 5.5–7.0 20–32 0.8–1.5 t
Black Pepper Jun–Jul (planting) 3–4 yr to bear 5.5–6.5 20–32 2–3 t dry
Cardamom (Large) Jun–Jul (planting) 3 yr to bear 5.0–6.5 10–25 200–300 kg dry
Cinnamon Jun–Jul (planting) 3–4 yr to harvest 5.0–7.0 20–30 150–200 kg quill
Vanilla Jun–Jul (planting) 3 yr to bear 6.0–7.0 21–32 300–500 kg green
Cubeb Jun–Jul 3–4 yr 5.5–6.5 20–30 0.6–1 t
Asafoetida (Hing) Sep–Oct 4–5 yr 6.5–7.5 10–25 0.05–0.1 t
Allspice Jun–Jul 5–7 yr 5.5–7.0 20–32 1–2 t
Bay Leaf (Tejpat) Jun–Jul 5–7 yr 5.5–7.0 15–30 2–4 t
Clove Jun–Jul (planting) 6–8 yr to bear 5.5–7.0 20–30 1–2 kg/tree
Nutmeg Jun–Jul (planting) 6–8 yr to bear 5.5–7.0 20–32 500–1000 fruits/tree
Tamarind Jun–Jul (planting) 6–8 yr to bear 6.0–8.0 22–35 150–200 kg/tree
Star Anise Jun–Jul 6–8 yr 5.5–6.5 15–28 1.5–3 t

18 more in this list. All 538 crops, with every column → The sowing year →