SPECIES OF COFFEE TREES
- Bourbon and Typica Original Arabic Species
- Caturra and Catuai are Hybrids
- 60% of the World's Coffee is Arabica
- Grows Best at High Altitudes
- Species Name Coffea arabica
- Bourbon Trees require higher maintenance and are lowest yielding
- Typica grows well in all types of topography and is higher yielding
- Hundreds of years ago as the first pure coffee trees were moved and transplanted around the world from Africa and Arabia to the French Caribbean Islands of Latin America
GROWING COFFEE
- A Coffee Tree is a fruit tree related to the woody gardenia. It's a evergreen shrub that flowers once a year, producing cherries nine months later
- Coffee Trees can live up to a hundred years, but their productive fruit bearing life span typically ranges from 20-25 years with pruning.
- Week 1 Seed Planted
- Week 2 Seed Germinates
- week 6 The stem rises from the soil, at this stage the plant is called a matchstick or solider because of the rounded cotyledon
- Month 2 The Cotyledon separates into two embryonic leaves that nourish the plant
- At this stage the plant looks like a butterfly, and it is strong enough to move to a nursery. Seedlings are transplanted into plastic bags and monitored daily for temperature.
- Month 4 The plant will produce the first branches. At this point the plant is monitored for plant size, leaf color, plant structure and distance between branches.
- 1 Year The young plants develop dark green color and healthy foliage and root system are transplanted into a field.
- 3 to 4 Years Coffee Trees mature and produce its first commercial harvest.
- At 3 to 4 in some cases fewer years when the coffee tree has reached maturity, it begins a yearly cycle of producing coffee cherries.
- A coffee tree is typically pruned at 5-6 feet (1.5-1.8meters) to make them easier to harvest.
- Pruning increases a tree's productivity or the amount of fruit it will yield.
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