Castellano
Un árbol de café necesita entre tres y cuatro años para alcanzar su mayor tamaño y florecer y seis meses más tarde aparece el fruto.
El árbol de café tiene características únicas. Los frutos maduran al mismo tiempo que las flores y cada árbol produce una libra o 455 gramos (mas o menos) de café en un año.
Cuando las cerezas alcanzan un color rojo intenso queda claro que están listas para ser cosechadas.
En ese momento cada cereza se siembra individualmente y cuando este proceso termina, las cerezas son puestas en sacos y luego transportadas a los consumidores.
English
From the time that the new coffee tree is planted, three to four years pass before it is mature enough to flower for the production of fruit. An additional six months passes before the coffee cherries appear.
Coffee trees have very unique characteristics where the cherries containing the beans mature simultaneously with new blossoming. Because of this, one can see mature fruit, deep red in color, green fruit still ripening as well as blossoms which will produce even more fruit all at the same moment. Each tree can produce about one pound or half of a kilogram of coffee each year.
Harvest of the cherries begins when they have reached a very intense red color. At that time each cherry is individually picked and processed with other beans prior to sacking and transportation to the ultimate consumer. (Starbuck's is one of the major importers of coffee from Guatemala).
