What I mean is that coffee blossoms are abundant today. After a good few days of rain last week we were expecting this. Perhaps it'll be biggest plantation blossom of the year. Oh, we have had several sporadic blossoms in various parts of the field but this one is the largest so far. The gauge is that coffee cherry will ripen in 210 days after a blossom. This is give or take a week or so on either side depending on spring/summer weather conditions. We had a few very early blossoms from Nov-Jan so picking will start slow near the end of July but it looks like our heaviest picking will be in October this year, much later than has been recorded for this farm in recent years. In fact in the 2005 season they had a very early pick and had new season parchment ready in August.
We had a good season last year and dried all our cherry. This is contrary to this farms practices from earlier years. They sold quite a bit of cherry. So we now believe we have enough parchment to continue with our green bean supply until the new season comes in this year. Having green bean available to our customers means that we'll be able to roast fresh Kona coffee for our customers weekly for our market and on demand for our internet customers. For that we are greatful and for todays blossom we are also greatful. Always feel free to contact us at www.konalisacoffee.com for updates.
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Hi Mary -- Good to hear from you in a comment on my blog. We are spending 6 months in San Diego, and haven't been organized enough to order coffee -- soon, I hope.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to find out about your blogs and will read through them. It's great that your coffee trees are apparently doing well. We enjoyed our tour of the farm last summer!