What is the flavor of SL-34 coffee? What are the advantages and characteristics?

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What is the flavor of SL-34 coffee? What are the advantages and characteristics?

Tree type: high

Heart leaf: dark copper

Bean size: large

Suitable planting height:

Latitude 5 °N to S: over 1200 m

Latitude 5m 15 °between north and south latitude: over 900 m

Latitude 15 °N and 15 °S: over 700 m

Quality performance at high altitude: quite special, excellent, rare.

Output: high

Resistance to diseases and insect pests:

Coffee leaf rust Coffee Leaf Rust Disease: susceptible to infection

Coffee blight Coffee Berry Disease: susceptible to infection

Coffee root nematode Nematodes: susceptible to infection

First harvest: third year

Fertilizer demand: moderate

Fruit ripening: unknown

Yield from fruit to raw bean: high

Planting density: 1000-2000 trees per metric (using multi-stem tree pruning)

Other additions: SL-34 is suitable for planting in areas with high altitude and high average rainfall. Its characteristic is copper heart leaf, only a few are green heart leaf. The angle between the first lateral branch and the trunk is 45 degrees, and the old branch tends to droop.

System: Typica gene background.

It was originally selected in Scott Agricultural Laboratories, Kenya in the 1930s. Scott Laboratories in Kenya was selected from individual coffee trees between 1935 and 1939 and was named "SL". SL-34 is a single coffee tree selected from Loresho Manor in Kabete, Kenya. The coffee tree is marked "French Mission French Mission".

French missionaries like the Spiritans Holy Spirit established a missionary in Bura in the Taita Mountains of Kenya, introducing bourbon coffee seeds from La R é union island (Reunion Island). In 1899, coffee seedlings were brought from the village of Bura to other French missionary areas in Saint Austin, and these coffee seeds were scattered in the area to produce coffee beans. This is the allusion of the so-called French Mission coffee French Mission Coffee.

Coffee seeds from the island of Reunion have historically been spread through French missionaries, and the French Mission French Mission is considered a nickname for bourbon coffee. However, today's genetic assays have confirmed that SL-34 has the gene group of Typica. It turns out that the legendary SL-34 was selected from the French mission French Mission Coffee Group, which is probably not correct.

Attachment: SL34 is a variant between Typica and Bourbon, which is different from SL-28 in its copper heart leaves. It means that this variety is closer to the Typica variety. SL34 has a strong ability to resist heavy rain at high altitude. the coffee is of high quality with citrus acid and strong taste.