Description of the Flavor of Coffee picking and growing process introduction to the Regional treatment of Coffee varieties

Coffee beans

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.

Grapes grow in clusters, which are mostly cut off when picked, while coffee fruits grow densely along each branch, and although they grow on the same branch, the ripening period of each fruit is different, some are still turquoise, some have slightly turned yellow, some are fully ripe bright red, some are dry dark brown. Because it is not mature at the same time, it must be done manually when picking coffee fruits, picking red or yellow fruits by hand, and skipping green ones. Workers have to check the ripeness of the fruit at the same place every day. Coffee fruits from the same branch often need to be picked back and forth again and again for several weeks before the harvest is complete.

For robusta varieties of coffee, which are not particular about quality and are cultivated on a flat ground, some people use shock harvesters to shake branches to harvest coffee fruits, which has no choice, so overripe beans and unripe beans will be mixed with ripe beans. The vast majority of farms that pay attention to quality are picked by hand.

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.

After two or three years, the coffee tree will grow to about 2 meters high, produce small white flowers with the fragrance of jasmine, and bear fruit in a few months. Arabica coffee fruit, from green to yellow to crimson, usually takes as long as 10 months. Ripe fruit sticks on the branches and looks like cherries in shape and color, so it is also called "coffee cherry".