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Maintenance of the Coffee Plantillos - Pruning
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Pruning of the shade trees involves a lot of work, since most of the shade trees at Selva Negra are centennial native trees, and therefore tall and sturdy. Some of the shade trees require climbing and pruning using special equipment. Note the size of some of these trees in the coffee plantation, in the bottom right hand side of the picture, you see a young man that serves as reference to the size of the trees. Prunning involves the cutting down of all ivy and dead branches of all shade trees all over the plantation. We have 80% to 60% of shade during the summer and 60% TO 40% shade during the rainy season. Prunning is done selectively all over the farm, an area is picked because of excess shade and it is pruned. Usually we come back to this same area in about 6 years. Aproximately 20% of the shade of the plantation is pruned each year.
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