How do coffee beans grow? The process of a seed from a coffee tree to a bean

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It takes 5 years for coffee trees to grow and bear fruit. Coffee trees in 6-10 years are the easiest to bear fruit. In about 15 years, it was a bumper harvest.

When planting coffee trees, we should first use the soil mixed with fertilizer as a seedbed and plant the coffee beans one by one. After 3 months, when the double leaf becomes the original leaf, it will be cultivated in the basin. 6Mel 10 months later, move into the coffee garden, preferably in the early rainy season. In order to avoid direct sunlight, high-dry plants such as mango, banana, sunflower and poplar can be planted to shade.

Small white flowers with the fragrance of jasmine come out and bear fruit after a few months. Arabica coffee fruit, from green to yellow to crimson, usually takes as long as 10 months. Ripe fruit forms sticks on the branches, resembling cherries in shape and color, so it is also known as "coffee cherry".

Coffee cherry, there will be two closely linked seeds, or a round bean, this is the raw bean of coffee.

The harvest of coffee

Coffee trees begin to bear fruit about three to five years after sowing, and the next 20 years from the beginning to the fruit will be a high-yielding period. In order to facilitate harvesting, farmers usually control the pruning of coffee trees to about 2 meters, because if they grow too high, they have to climb a ladder to pick, which is not only time-consuming, but also may damage the tree by bending branches. Coffee trees need some tall shade trees to be planted together, shading and cooling during the day and heat preservation at night, so Wangwang in the coffee garden can see the staggered arrangement of low shrubby coffee trees with banana or mango trees. The temperature is between 15-25 ℃, and the annual rainfall must reach 1500-2000 mm. At the same time, the rainfall time should match the flowering cycle of the coffee tree. Of course, in addition to the seasonal rainfall, there should be fertile soil with good drainage and fertile soil containing volcanic ash. In addition, although sunlight is an indispensable element for the growth and fruit of coffee, too strong sunlight will inhibit the growth of coffee trees. Therefore, various producing areas will usually cooperate with the planting of some shade trees, and the ideal altitude is 500 to 2000 meters. It can be seen that the conditions for the cultivation of high-quality coffee are quite strict: sunlight, rainfall, soil, air temperature, as well as the way coffee beans are harvested and the production process will affect the quality of coffee itself.