Tea Plant in Munnar

When the tea plant is to allow to develop without barriers and wild becomes 10 m tall.To simplify the culture and encourage outbreaks leaf production, are regularly carved and formatting in a flat shrubs of one metre in height.As the plant grows to a height of approximately half of a metro on top of the soil will reduce - delete in a period of a few inches on the floor - to establish the courses to be transformed into a Bush a dish

Generally, a tea bush is 1 to 1.5 meters in height. Regular 2 to 3 year pruning cycles encourage the supply of shoots, the flush which is plucked every week to ten days, depending on where it is cultivated. Your browser may not support display of this image. The tea leaves are mostly hand plucked. The tea plant is plucked every 5- 10 days, depending on where it grows. The length of time needed for the plucked shoot to redevelop a new shoot ready for plucking varies according to the plucking system and the climatic conditions. Intervals of between seventy and ninety days are common.When the tea plant is plucked two leaves and a bud are cut. An experienced pluckier can pluck up to 30 kg tealeaves per day. To make one kg black tea, approx. 4 kg tea leaves are needed. One tea plant produces about 70 kg black tea a year. In a warm climate the plant is plucked for the first time after four years and it will produce tea for at least 50 years. A suitable climate for cultivation has a minimum annual rainfall of 1,140 to 1,270 millimeters. Tea soils must be acid; tea cannot be grown in alkaline soils. A crop of 11,650 kilograms per hectare requires 3.7 to 4.9 workers per hectare to pluck the tea shoots and maintain the fields. Mechanical plucking has been tried, but because of its lack of selectivity, cannot replace hand plucking. Since 1900, advancements in tea cultivation have increased the average yield per acre in India from 180 to 450 kilograms, with many estates producing over 680 kilograms.