Re: darjeeling tea 1st Flush 2008- crop delayOn Mar 5, 6:13 pm, Ankit Lochan <ankitloc...@gmail,com > wrote:
> On Mar 4, 5:41 pm, rajivmi...@gmail,com wrote:
>
> > I've been in a regular contact with the managers of various
> > plantations in Darjeeling and all the gardens will come up with a slow
> > start this year due to the uneven balance of temperature this year
> > which makes the growth of new leafs and buds very slow, talking about
> > the Darjeeling Valley Gardens like Puttabong, North Tukvar, Barnesbeg
> > etc. which use to start with their 1st invoices of First Flush by
> > probably the end of 1st week of March will get their first couple of
> > invoices only by the 10th of March or may be a couple of Days later.
> > The Kurseong Valley gardens like Castleton, Goomtee, Jungpana, and
> > Makaibari etc. will start after the 15th of March but the Mirik valley
> > gardens which are usually late starters like Thurbo, Gopaldhara etc
> > might be early starter this year as unusually the area is much more
> > humid this year so leaf growth is expected to be rapid in these
> > gardens and we can expect early invoices from these gardens.
>
> yes rajiv - the flush is late this year. while on the other hand some
> gardens have started rolling out their early EX invoices in very small
> quantities. glenburn has already made their EX1, rohini has started
> getting an average of 200 to 300 kilos of leaf, giddapahar has done
> their yearly puja, badamtam has made their first invoice already,
> margarets hope is having their spring plucking puja tomorow - they
> willl start plucking regularly soon.... as far as i have heard is that
> makaibari has also rolled out quite a few EX invoices already ... lets
> hope that yesterdays light showers will help in the blooming and we
> get a good round of teas this year.
>
> we are all keeping our fingers crossed and anticipating a good crop -
> we dont mind it being a bit late. lets wait and see what nature has in
> store for us.
>
> take care
> ankit
btw - rajiv just an FYI - china first flush normally comes by march
end - they have unofficially announced that their first flush will be
in april end this year due to the heavy snow they had... the
international scenario of production is a bit behind this year, same
for the crop also...
ankit