Show coffee planting unique As agricultural process coffee plantations are interesting places especially to americans who are accustomed to seeing only american style production of ordinary agricultural crops coffee seeds are thickly sown in carefully prepared beds the seeds sprout in about 40 days showing two small leaves the plants then are transferred to the nursery plots in rows about a foot apart during two years in the nursery the plants grow about two feet then they are ready for transplanting into permanent holes when the roots take hold firmly in their new location the j young a trees are bent over and clamped to the ground by forked pins this breaks the skin or bark some eight or ten inches from the from these breaks many little sprouts shoot upward As soon as the healthy ones can be distinguished thy they am pruned down to t four this thia prow makes for bushy trees about five years later the trees 2 are re ready to produce in the mean ioime time the soil must be kept clean and the shade trees at a correct foliage density the grown coffee tree is about eight feet high and will last 30 to 40 years if cared for properly all soil maintenance is by hand band with hoes hoer and machetes plows are taboo because they aid soil erosion the coffee heap when ripe is red and if of good grade hat hall an inch in diameter the trees resemble cherry trees in good food seasons |