Re: Growing coffee
thanks cameron.
looking at those hartmann beans, i suppose their secret method involves some variation on a quick wash so that a fair bit of the mucilage is left.
next crop im going to try some dry processing as well as some sort of the hartmann system to compare them. ill just give the beans a swirl around in a bucket and take them straight out. that should get some of the looser mucilage off and may leave what hartmann calls the stickier, sweeter part.
since i had blossom coming on last year before i had picked even half the crop, i would have to stop watering when the cherries were full size and ripening if i was going to stop the trees blossoming whenever they got a bit of water. would that affect the ripening?
theres a picture on amina omaris blog of kenyan beans being processed, which leads to another page of more pictures. there is a fantastic shot of a tree in blossom. do your trees look like that?
i used to know a girl called amina omari, but it cant be the same one.
tony
thanks cameron.
looking at those hartmann beans, i suppose their secret method involves some variation on a quick wash so that a fair bit of the mucilage is left.
next crop im going to try some dry processing as well as some sort of the hartmann system to compare them. ill just give the beans a swirl around in a bucket and take them straight out. that should get some of the looser mucilage off and may leave what hartmann calls the stickier, sweeter part.
since i had blossom coming on last year before i had picked even half the crop, i would have to stop watering when the cherries were full size and ripening if i was going to stop the trees blossoming whenever they got a bit of water. would that affect the ripening?
theres a picture on amina omaris blog of kenyan beans being processed, which leads to another page of more pictures. there is a fantastic shot of a tree in blossom. do your trees look like that?
i used to know a girl called amina omari, but it cant be the same one.
tony


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