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Common sense of Coffee Tree planting

Coffee trees grow in the tropics between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Cancer and near the equator. There are also great differences in appearance among the so-called world coffee growth zones, caffeine varieties and regional factors. With long green leaves ranging from yellowish green to dark green or even to brass, these shiny trees are wavy, which is more pronounced in Robasda than in Arabica.

Although coffee trees need irrigation, pruning, weeding, fertilization and root protection, if the soil is not the best condition for coffee trees, it will not bear fruit for several years. The coffee tree grows most luxuriantly in the soil full of nitrogen, potassium carbonate and phosphoric acid. When the tree is 4-5 years old, the first fruit will soon reach the yield peak, and will continue to bear fruit if it is well cared for in 20-25 years.

One of the characteristics of a coffee tree is that its fruit can bear fruit several times a year, and another is that flowers and fruits (also known as cherries) coexist at different stages of ripening. The style of the whole coffee industry is influenced by the fickle nature. If the fruit is too ripe, the beans in it will rot. If it is not ripe enough, the beans picked will not ripen by themselves. So bean pickers often go back to the same tree several times to look for ripe fruit-trying to get only 2 pounds of green coffee beans, usually an average of 2 pounds a year. Keep this in mind the next time you buy coffee.

Coffee farmers who produce low-grade coffee beans like to use labor-saving methods to harvest beans, but in this way, because the quality is not pure, it impairs the flavor of coffee and lowers the grade of coffee. The way to pick coffee beans in some parts of Africa is to shake coffee trees, shake the fruit off the ground, and pick it up from the ground before the fruit is injured and rotten. Secondary coffee is produced in most parts of Brazil, where coffee is picked by plucking all the leaves, flowers, overheated and green fruits from the branches at a time, and it takes two years for such damaged coffee trees to return to normal.

The delicate white flowers of coffee trees are a rare spectacle, which smells like oranges and jasmine. Sometimes it is just a tree blooming alone; for example, a young bride, sometimes the whole coffee garden is in full bloom, looking like a sea of white flowers, beautiful and intoxicating, but the flowering period is fleeting. Within two or three days, the petals dispersed with the wind, leaving only the remaining fragrance to spin around in the air.

Before long, small fruits appeared in piles, first green, then yellow, then red and tapestry red. When they were almost black, they could be harvested in Jamaica. Bats were the first to know whether the fruit was ripe or not. They sucked coffee pulp at night, telling farmers that the fruit was ripe and ready to be harvested. The oval fruit gathers tightly around the branches, with slender, smooth dark green toothed leaves on both sides of the branches. The leaves on the sunny side are harder and the back is softer and paler, and the edges are fan-shaped. The branches are also opposite from the trunk.

Evergreen trees are usually bred in a nursery, grow into seedlings, and then move to a coffee farm a year later, in full compliance with the way the early Arabs planted and cultivated coffee trees. In the first four or five years of its growth, the coffee tree will continue to take root downward, develop its trunk upward, and develop its branches into an umbrella shape so that it can bear rich fruit in the future.