Comments on: Understanding the Geisha Cultivar http://blog.coffeereview.com/green-coffee-origins-and-issues/understanding-the-geisha-cultivar/ The world's leading coffee buying guide Fri, 17 May 2013 19:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: http://greencoffeecleanse.net http://blog.coffeereview.com/green-coffee-origins-and-issues/understanding-the-geisha-cultivar/comment-page-1/#comment-2752 http://greencoffeecleanse.net Sun, 12 May 2013 12:42:23 +0000 http://blog.coffeereview.com/?p=249#comment-2752 It's the best time to make a few plans for the long run and it is time to be happy. I've read this publish and if I may just I wish to recommend you some interesting things or tips. Maybe you can write next articles referring to this article. I want to learn even more issues about it! It’s the best time to make a few plans for the long run and it is time to be happy. I’ve read
this publish and if I may just I wish to recommend you some interesting things or tips.
Maybe you can write next articles referring to this article.

I want to learn even more issues about it!

]]> By: R. Miguel Meza http://blog.coffeereview.com/green-coffee-origins-and-issues/understanding-the-geisha-cultivar/comment-page-1/#comment-159 R. Miguel Meza Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:38:35 +0000 http://blog.coffeereview.com/?p=249#comment-159 i should mention their are 4 farms in Panama that have geisha from plantings in the 1960's -Hacienda La Esmeralda, Mama Cata, Don Pachi Estate, and La Esperanza. all of these farms within a certain elevation range have excellent examples of this cultivar. the coffee was originally sent to CATIE in Costa Rica in 1953 as Geisha. there were a couple different accessions i believe. forget the #'s at the moment. the coffee came to CATIE from either Tanzania or Kenya, can't remember which. it was originally collected in an area of southwestern Ethiopia called Geisha forest in 1931. there were several plants presumably of different phenotypes noticed in the area collected. all called geisha or Abbysinian (Ethiopia was called Abbysinnia back then and many early varietals collected from Ethiopia were simply called Abbysinian. there exists one in Indonesia today brought there by P.J.S. Cramer early in the 20th century called abbysinian which was one of the first arabica cultivars that was noticed to provide rust resistance (that particular plant also seems to have some resistance to coffee berry disease and was re-discovered in the research station in Cameroon and widely distributed in that country under the name Java) and it is perhaps because of this varietal why expeditions like the one that yeilded the geisha in 1931 were commissioned. i should mention their are 4 farms in Panama that have geisha from plantings in the 1960′s -Hacienda La Esmeralda, Mama Cata, Don Pachi Estate, and La Esperanza. all of these farms within a certain elevation range have excellent examples of this cultivar.

the coffee was originally sent to CATIE in Costa Rica in 1953 as Geisha. there were a couple different accessions i believe. forget the #’s at the moment. the coffee came to CATIE from either Tanzania or Kenya, can’t remember which. it was originally collected in an area of southwestern Ethiopia called Geisha forest in 1931. there were several plants presumably of different phenotypes noticed in the area collected. all called geisha or Abbysinian (Ethiopia was called Abbysinnia back then and many early varietals collected from Ethiopia were simply called Abbysinian. there exists one in Indonesia today brought there by P.J.S. Cramer early in the 20th century called abbysinian which was one of the first arabica cultivars that was noticed to provide rust resistance (that particular plant also seems to have some resistance to coffee berry disease and was re-discovered in the research station in Cameroon and widely distributed in that country under the name Java) and it is perhaps because of this varietal why expeditions like the one that yeilded the geisha in 1931 were commissioned.

]]> By: R. Miguel Meza http://blog.coffeereview.com/green-coffee-origins-and-issues/understanding-the-geisha-cultivar/comment-page-1/#comment-158 R. Miguel Meza Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:16:02 +0000 http://blog.coffeereview.com/?p=249#comment-158 it really wasnt something planted by anyone one on any scale outside of Boquete. the geisha cultivar(s?) has been experimented with in many hybridization programs around the world because of it's rust resistance but to my knowledge no cultivars with it as a parent were ever widely distributed. it was planted on at least one farm in guatemala, which i have tried and it shows of the distinct characterisitcs of the varietal well. i know there is a farm in Costa Rica that has it as well. havent tasted so can't comment on that one. it seems to be a very tempermental plant. at just slightly lower elevations even in the small area of boquete panama it is a considerably less distinctive coffee. very good still but lacking the explosive aromatics and flavors that brought the Esmeralda geisha fame. it wasn't anything ever considered much by other farmers until Hacienda La Esmeralda made it famous. it is a very low yeilding plant and a weak plant that is easily adversely affected by inclement weather. but it is now being planted all over central america as well i have heard in Colombia, Sulawesi and likely a couple other places as well. within a couple years these coffees should be coming to the market as well as many more geisha varietal coffees from Panama that have been recently planted. i suspect only a small handful of these will really shine though. we'll see soon enough though. it really wasnt something planted by anyone one on any scale outside of Boquete. the geisha cultivar(s?) has been experimented with in many hybridization programs around the world because of it’s rust resistance but to my knowledge no cultivars with it as a parent were ever widely distributed. it was planted on at least one farm in guatemala, which i have tried and it shows of the distinct characterisitcs of the varietal well. i know there is a farm in Costa Rica that has it as well. havent tasted so can’t comment on that one. it seems to be a very tempermental plant. at just slightly lower elevations even in the small area of boquete panama it is a considerably less distinctive coffee. very good still but lacking the explosive aromatics and flavors that brought the Esmeralda geisha fame. it wasn’t anything ever considered much by other farmers until Hacienda La Esmeralda made it famous. it is a very low yeilding plant and a weak plant that is easily adversely affected by inclement weather. but it is now being planted all over central america as well i have heard in Colombia, Sulawesi and likely a couple other places as well. within a couple years these coffees should be coming to the market as well as many more geisha varietal coffees from Panama that have been recently planted. i suspect only a small handful of these will really shine though. we’ll see soon enough though.

]]> By: Andrés Castro http://blog.coffeereview.com/green-coffee-origins-and-issues/understanding-the-geisha-cultivar/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Andrés Castro Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:09:21 +0000 http://blog.coffeereview.com/?p=249#comment-157 Hello Miguel Thank you for writing this article. I wonder if you know any other place in Panama or Central America where the Geisha was reproduced with the same success of La Esmeralda. In adition, Do you know what is the original varietal name of the current Geisha plant. Hello Miguel

Thank you for writing this article. I wonder if you know any other place in Panama
or Central America where the Geisha was reproduced with the same success of La Esmeralda. In adition, Do you know
what is the original varietal name of the current Geisha plant.

]]>