Only healthy plants 40 cm to 60 cm high with at least 12 good mature leaves and of pencil ( 0.5 cm) thickness at ( collar ) should be taken for planting in the field. In general 9 – 12 month old plants attain this stage. Sub standard plants should be discarded, before plants are removed from nursery, they should be hardened by gradual exposure to full sun. Transportation of the plants to the planting site in field should be done with utmost care and only after proper labeling. The best way for good quality tea planting should be up root from the nursery and plant on that very same day any tea planted more than three days out of the nursery will never give good quality and better yields of green leaf.
There are two types of planting: 1- Pit planting, 2- Trench planting.
PIT PLANTING IN TEA FARMING
This method is followed when spacing between plants is wide enough to allow digging of individual pits of proper size and without much difficulty. Pits should be about 45 cm wide and 45 ...
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Bheti Planting in Tea Farming:
Here the plants are lifted along with the bheti and the roots intact from the nursery bed. This is convenient with plants grown in polythene sleeves, which reduces root damage and gives a very high percentage of survival. The polythene is removed carefully by sli...
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About 14000 – 16,000 ( up to 17,000 in hilly areas) plants per hectare have been found to be I deal bush population with spacing of 105 -110 cm between rows and 60 – 70 cm between plants. The planting can be done either as single or double hedge....
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Pruning is an important task and should be carried out to maintain the proper shape of tea bush to a height of about 1 metre with about same diameter. The objective of pruning is to have new shoots bearing soft tea leaves in plenty and to make comfortable plucking of tea leaves from the ground...
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Tea picking should always be two leaves and a bud. Tea picking should never be compromised because it affects the quality and grade of tea if not properly observed.
Specific teas have different ways how to be picked for countries like Kenya which introduced a new type of tea called purple tea.
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