Timeline for To what extent have C. arabica beans been replaced by rust-resistant cultivars?
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| Oct 16, 2015 at 18:34 | comment | added | daniel | According to your own source, Catimor is a hybrid of Hybrido de Timor and Caturra. Hybrido de Timor is a "natural hybrid of C. arabica and C. canephora." The lack of quality of Lempira (Catimor, if you prefer) cited in the article I found is noted in your article as well. If this were marketed as pure arabica, that would I think be false advertising. | |
| Oct 16, 2015 at 17:53 | comment | added | PabTorre | Lempira is a subvariety of Catimor, which is itself a variety of Arabica. So it isn't technically a replacement for Arabica, although it is a replacement for Typica. :) genuscoffea.wordpress.com/coffea-article | |
| Oct 16, 2015 at 14:23 | comment | added | daniel | It took me only a few minutes to find the article above which makes it clear that Lempira, which is not arabica but an arabica-robusta hybrid of so-so quality, is being used to replace aging/dying arabica in Honduras. It's fine to question the premise of the question, but your own data provides the business motive to look for alternatives to arabica. You have answered the question: Will coffee plantations tend to recover from coffee rust? Fine, but I didn't ask that question. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 2:24 | history | edited | PabTorre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 11, 2015 at 23:49 | comment | added | PabTorre | do you have any sources on that "intense effort to replace some portion of arabica trees with rust resistant species" ? | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 12:04 | comment | added | daniel | Your statements may all be true but they are not responsive to the question. Because rust is a recurring threat there is an intense effort to replace some portion of arabica trees with rust-resistant species or hybrids. I think this is only smart. But there is a consumer mystique about arabica and many buyers would be surprised to learn that (say) 5% of their "arabica" beans are in fact something else. If you have quantitative information about the marginal replacement then that would answer the question. | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 1:58 | comment | added | PabTorre | Most cultivars and varieties are part of the Arabica family. Aside from Robusta and Liberica there aren't many non-Arabica coffees being grown commercially. Now, if you were saying that a lot of coffee plantations are moving away from Typica... that's a different story. | |
| Oct 10, 2015 at 13:37 | comment | added | daniel | But some of their trees may no longer be Arabica trees, but trees bred to resist rust. My question was about the percentage of these non-Arabica beans in Arabica coffee. | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 16:17 | history | answered | PabTorre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |