How did you get the coffee beans? The growing period of coffee? When is the coffee harvested?

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Do you know where coffee beans come from? What process does its beans have to go through? Qianjie Coffee comes to tell you that it takes 5 years for coffee trees to grow to 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.