Waiting To Get Bored, This Takes A Long Time For Coffee Trees To Reach Retirement

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YOGYAKARTA Coffee is currently still considered a profitable agricultural product. No wonder many farmers switch to planting coffee trees. If you are interested in growing coffee from seeds, there are many things to know about the maintenance of the tree. One thing to note is how long coffee trees reach maturity and are ready to harvest.

In a book entitled Cultivation and Post-Penen Kopi, it is explained that coffee plants can be reproduced by means of vegetative and generative. How to multiply coffee trees with vegetation is done using part of a coffee plant, while the generating method is to use seeds or seeds. However, planting in a generating way is considered easier and shorter in producing ready-to-plant seeds.

After planting, coffee trees require a fairly large series of treatments. Some of the treatments farmers need to take on coffee trees are as follows.

Coffee harvesting needs to be done after cooking seeds. It should be noted that coffee trees reach the maturity of seeds with a varied age, ranging from 2.5 to 3 years old. There are also farmers who estimate their own harvest time. They will pick good fruit in ripe seeds and those that are not ripe from trees simultaneously. Unfortunately, this harvesting sometimes produces low quality coffee beans.

It should be noted that coffee trees have a fairly long productive age. On the site cybex.pertanian.go.id, it is explained that the productive age of coffee plants can reach 20 years. However, each type of coffee tree has a different time of grain maturity. In Arabica coffee, for example, will bear fruit at the age of 3 to 4 years with a peak point at the age of 7-9 years. Meanwhile, robusta coffee can bear fruit at the age of 2.5-3 years.

The characteristics of cooked coffee can be seen from the color of the skin. If the skin is dark green, it is a sign that the coffee is still young. However, if the skin is yellow, it is still half cooking. The ripe copu fruit is marked by red on the skin. However, if the skin is red, it is dark, it is a sign that the fruit is over cooking.

To get high quality coffee products, pick-up must be done when the fruit is fully red. In addition, coffee is considered too young or too mature so that it will damage the quality of the coffee. The quality of the fruit will also have an impact on the taste of coffee after processing. A quality coffee criterion is when the fruit is picked in ripe condition.

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