The evolution of Pacamara coffee beans and the characteristics of Pacamara coffee beans.

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Many years ago, most buyers in the boutique coffee industry avoided large-grain coffee, such as Maragogype and Pacamara. Large-grain coffee grown in low and middle elevations usually showed less pleasant vegetable or woody flavors. At that time, most coffee farmers had not yet tried to grow in high altitude areas. It was not until Incht Manor won the championship of Cup of Excellence with Pacamara variety many times that boutique coffee lovers slowly realized that the original Pacamara produced at high altitude had such a rich and varied flavor.

Pacamara (Pacamara) has a peculiar plant shape and raw bean shape-huge leaves, tall trees, huge raw beans. It is known as the strange variety of Saudi Arabia.

He was so unknown that he even made his debut in the COE competition in 2003 and 2004, because the judges thought the flavor was too strange to give high marks. Until 2005 COE began to shine, in 2006 directly arranged to host the top four COE in Saudi Arabia, and in 2008-10 Guatemala COE was directly won by the Pacamara direct champion of Incht Manor for three years! From then on, he established the position of being the leader of the raw beans.

Unlike naturally evolved varieties such as geisha, bourbon and iron pickup, Pacamara is not naturally evolved or crossed naturally, but is bred by a group of excellent coffee breeders in El Salvador!

In 1958, more than half a century ago, the Department of Genetics and breeding of the Salvadoran Coffee Research Center (ISIC) crossed for the first time a variety of bourbon, the variety of Pacas, and a variety of Tibica, such as elephant bean and giant bean (Maragogype). Since the crossing of two pure lines will produce F1 progenies with a large number of heteroconjugated gene pairs (in short, very impure lineages), the next step is to carry out multi-generation self-crossing in order to separate traits and purify genes. The self-pollination of each generation should start with artificial pollination, and raise seedlings, plant plants, and grow up. This part will take at least 3-4 years! At the same time, it is even more time-consuming and laborious to measure the individual performance of a large number of mutant offspring and select potential strains whose traits meet the requirements. And then self-hand-in, nurture and grow up, select. In this way, after five generations (F5), it has been 30 years, almost consuming the life of a young breeding expert before this variety can be bred! In fact, however, after only five generations of self-purification, the new variety still has a small number of heteroconjugated gene pairs, so some of the traits of Pacamara are still occasionally separated from Pacas or elephant beans or giant beans (Maragogype). If it is to be completely purified, it will take another five generations.