When does the coffee tree bear fruit?
The ripe fruit skin is red, and due to its shape and color similar to cherries, mature coffee fruits are called coffee cherries in many places. Beneath the bright red exocarp are the pericarp, pulp, and a sweet, sticky yellow substance that encases the beans.
Normally, each fruit has two coffee beans, flat faces facing each other. There are also coffee trees that sometimes produce smaller fruits containing only a single coffee bean, which has different names-peaberry, single bean or perla-and which has no flat face and is almost round. Because it is very small in quantity and must be specially selected and collected together, the price is much higher than ordinary coffee beans. Many people think that round beans taste particularly good, because their round bean shape can tightly wrap the original flavor of coffee in the beans, the taste is extremely strong, is regarded as the best coffee beans.
Most Arabica beans mature between June and August, and Robasta beans between September and October. Therefore, although in some countries where the dry and wet seasons are not obvious, such as Colombia and Kenya, there are two flowering times a year, that is, two harvests, but strictly speaking, there is only one harvest a year.
The harvest period of coffee varies from region to region. Areas north of the equator (such as Ethiopia and Central America) generally harvest once in September to November. South of the equator, in areas such as Brazil and Zimbabwe, the main harvest occurs in April or May, although it can last until August. Equatorial countries, such as Uganda and Colombia, harvest year-round, especially plantations that exploit a variety of altitudes. As a result, coffee beans may be newly harvested most of the year.
Coffee fruits are harvested immediately when ripe, and because fruits of different maturity periods appear on the same tree, harvesting is not easy. Generally speaking, it takes 4 - 5 months from initial harvest to complete harvest. If ripe and immature fruits are harvested at the same time, the quality of coffee will be reduced. Therefore, good quality coffee is hand-picked one by one to maintain the perfect coffee taste.
In one year, a typical Arabica coffee tree harvests less than 5 kilograms of fruit, making about 1 kilogram of coffee beans.
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The process from cherry fruit to raw coffee beans
A coffee tree can harvest 3-5 kg of fruit, and raw coffee beans account for 1. 5% of the fruit quality. Going from fruit to raw coffee beans is really a time-consuming and laborious task. Arabian coffee accounts for about 2% of the world's coffee production. The plant is not suitable for high temperature, low temperature, more rain and less rain. Coffee beans are oval and flat, with high quality and rich aroma. Robusta grows coffee.
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