As one of the most popular beverages in the world, almost everyone is familiar with coffee, but not many people realize the amount of time and work required to produce it.
While normally referred to as a tree, the coffee plant is actually a variety of evergreen shrub. These trees can grow to a height of up to thirty feet, but are typically pruned to be ten feet or less in order to make it easier to harvest the beans.
Coffee plants generally require skilled cultivation, as they can be extremely susceptible to pest and frost. They grow best in altitudes above 1,000 feet, in areas where frost is unlikely. Coffee plantations will often be made up of thousands of trees, and the trees do not reach full maturity until they are about six years old. While they can live for around sixty years, they generally only produce substantial amounts of coffee for around ten years. Each tree will yield, on average, one pound of roasted coffee per year.
Once the berries on the coffee trees are ripe, they turn a bright red color. The recommended method for harvesting is to pick them by hand, thus ensuring only the ripe ones are chosen. A tree can have both ripe and unripe fruit at the same time, so handpicking is normally the method employed by coffee growers.
Coffee plants can be grown indoors as well, and some people make a hobby of growing their own coffee tree from a seed, and then harvesting the ripe beans.
While normally referred to as a tree, the coffee plant is actually a variety of evergreen shrub. These trees can grow to a height of up to thirty feet, but are typically pruned to be ten feet or less in order to make it easier to harvest the beans.
Coffee plants generally require skilled cultivation, as they can be extremely susceptible to pest and frost. They grow best in altitudes above 1,000 feet, in areas where frost is unlikely. Coffee plantations will often be made up of thousands of trees, and the trees do not reach full maturity until they are about six years old. While they can live for around sixty years, they generally only produce substantial amounts of coffee for around ten years. Each tree will yield, on average, one pound of roasted coffee per year.
Once the berries on the coffee trees are ripe, they turn a bright red color. The recommended method for harvesting is to pick them by hand, thus ensuring only the ripe ones are chosen. A tree can have both ripe and unripe fruit at the same time, so handpicking is normally the method employed by coffee growers.
Coffee plants can be grown indoors as well, and some people make a hobby of growing their own coffee tree from a seed, and then harvesting the ripe beans.
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