What is the ideal growing environment for coffee trees? How to plant coffee trees?

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What is the ideal growing environment for coffee trees? How to plant coffee trees?

There are three main commercial varieties of coffee trees, and there are different classifications under these three varieties. Arabica coffee (arabica) coffee is the most important and the best quality coffee beans, derived from Isopia, is currently the most widely cultivated coffee. Lieberita Coffee (liberica) comes from Sabriano Basta (robusta), from the Congo. The name of the latter shows that it is stout, able to resist bad weather and disease, and allows it to grow in the wild in woodland without much manual care during soil preparation, weeding and pruning. Although it tastes more bitter than Arabica, its quality is much lower than that of Arabica. Most Africans drink Nobasta coffee. Because of its high output, it is used to make instant coffee. Arabica coffee is suitable for growing in mountains between 2000 and 6,500 feet above sea level-the higher the altitude, the better the quality, while Liburita and Nobasta are best grown below 2000 feet above sea level.

Coffee trees can only grow in the tropics and subtropics. Coffee trees can grow in different climates, soils, elevations and rainfall in the middle of the "coffee belt". In Africa's hot and humid canyons and forest rainforests, coffee trees thrive; in cold, foggy, windy Central America it still produces high-quality coffee beans; and in the Caribbean, where the climate is changeable, drought and torrential rain, it still blossoms and bears fruit. These factors are the secret that coffee beans have different flavors and a wide variety.

The ideal growth environment is a temperature between 65 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit, an appropriate altitude and annual rainfall (between 40 and 120 inches). The timing of rainfall is very important, it is best to have intervals of heavy rain and strong sunshine during maturity, and a period of dry weather is needed for harvest. Any form of soil is suitable, but the best soil is a mixture of decomposed volcanic soil, humic soil and permeable soil.

The sunshine time during the day is not very long, a few hours is enough. The hillside is an ideal location because of its short viewing time and good drainage. Coffee trees like wet roots, tall trees with most leaves planted in the coffee garden, on the one hand to protect against the wind, on the other hand shade.

As for the disasters of coffee trees, frost damage and leaf diseases are the most common killers.