QUEST FOR COFFEE

[...] hot. I wonder if that distinct and constant temperature change has had a positive effect? This new growth is cool, but it's not the big news of the day. Oh no, not the big news at all. I was admiring [...]

[...] into the leaves. I also thought that the mature leaves are probably taking away from the new growth. I let it go a few more days. I returned from a trip to see the remaining leaves wilting and [...]

There are some buds forming on the main plant. So far it looks like there are more than last year, but still no great amount. The plant is growing pre [...]

[...] So I was walking past the plant a couple weeks ago and wondered if the beans were okay. I thought that they were looking a bit like the green [...]

[...] attempt is still around. The way you see it in the picture is how it has been for a couple weeks now. The seed has not fallen off and there are no leaves yet, but it seems to be growing a bit [...]

[...] . So this has nothing to do with growing coffee, but I saw this neon sign in Manhattan a couple weeks ago. I love shit like this, it cracks me up. [...]

[...] control, and when it was said and done, 7 minutes and about 420 degrees later, Finca Nueva Berlin was roasted. I was a bit nervous at first, but the test roasts proved that the ol' [...]

[...] . I heavy dose of bone meal to encourage flowering, and fingers crossed for a new crop of Finca Nueva Berlin. Rest assured it would be a Microlot! There ya go, a new post. I want to apologize to all [...]

[...] are a coming. Well not in drought ridden North Carolina, but the wet season has begun at Finca Nueva Berlin. After several months of very limited watering I have begun a new regimen. I began watering [...]

[...] are safe, the dry 68 degree air is not conducive of new growth. Yet another reason to put the small plants back in a warm, moist environment. [...]

[...] if anything will sprout, but what the hey. Last year the same guy mentioned above gave away small plants from his sprouts at a local store. A couple of them made it to Counter Culture, but they got [...]

[...] , I choose to offer the trees a bit of organic love. A healthy dose of organic blood meal and organic bone meal were their first feedings of any kind since last fall. I am looking forward to outdoor [...]

[...] in the jungle, so a quick spraying of the leaves a few times a day is now the norm. Organic bone meal in a nice heavy dose, along with some compost, were mixed into the soil to promote [...]

[...] is over! I don't want to do anything that may cause trauma. I have seen on pictures of coffee plants at source that often the branches with beans lose many (or all) of their leaves. This [...]

[...] I noticed a week or so ago that some of the precious leaves on the propagated coffee plants were turning yellow around the edges and falling off. I was a bit concerned at first, but then [...]

[...] I remember the challenge in the mid-nineties when the coffee roaster I worked for began our blanket conversion to thermal insulated servers for drip coffee in our [...]

[...] , so that was nice to hear in the conversations I participated in. One shining star was Caffe Medici Espresso and Coffee House. The beautiful La Marzocco FB-70 draws your eye the moment you walk in [...]