Planting conditions of Coffee trees

Coffee belt: coffee can not be grown in any environment, because it is originally a plant growing in a tropical rain forest, and in phylogeny, it forms the habit of requiring calm wind, cool, shaded or semi-shaded and humid environment. We call the strips on both sides of the equator between latitudes 25 degrees south and north suitable for the growth of coffee trees as coffee belts.

Temperature: the temperature requirements vary with the cultivated species, small seed species are more cold-resistant, like warm and cool climate, the average annual temperature is 19-21 degrees.

Rainfall: annual rainfall of more than 1250 mm, uniform distribution, especially in the flowering and small fruit development period, there is a certain amount of rainfall is most suitable for the growth and development of coffee.

Light: coffee trees are not resistant to strong light and need proper shade. The light is too strong and their growth is inhibited. If you add in the lack of water and fertilizer, there will be premature senility and even death. The shade is excessive, the branches and leaves are too long, the flowers and fruits are scarce and the yield is very low.

Wind: coffee likes a quiet breeze.

Soil: loam with well-developed roots and shallow absorption roots of coffee trees, requiring loose, fertile and well-drained loam.

The sowing time is from Qingming Festival to Grain Rain (mid-April), when the air temperature is 15-20 ℃, it is too early, the ground temperature is low, the seeds are easy to rot in the soil, and too late, the seeds can not mature, affecting the yield and quality. Sowing with strip sowing is appropriate, row spacing 50-70 cm, open 5-6 cm deep ditch, spread seeds evenly in the ditch, cover soil 3 cm, slightly suppress, and emerge about 10 days after sowing. If there is a drought in the north, it is necessary to irrigate before sowing, not to water after sowing, so as to avoid topsoil consolidation affecting seedling emergence. Third, field management to loosen the soil and weeding: when the seedling height is 3cm to 6cm, the weak or overdense seedlings are pulled out; when the seedling height is 10cm and 13cm, the seedling is fixed, and the plant distance is about 30cm. Loosening soil hoe between seedlings and fixed seedlings at the same time