Rujani Tea

Left to itself, a tea plant will grow to be a tall tree, anywhere between 5 and 10 meters. Cultivated tea plants are pruned for ease of hand harvesting and other maintenance work
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Pruning is necessary to maintain good plant health and for continual growth of succulent new shoots to make good quality tea. Periodic pruning in intervals of 3-4 years keep the tea bushes in a vegetative phase, encouraging the shoot growth for an optimum harvest. Pruning is one of the most important operations in tea cultivation, with an objective to replace the mature set of maintenance foliage with fresh growth. In this post, the picture is of Rejuvenation Pruning or RP, which has been done to a very old tea section, after around 35-40 years, followed by infilling / in planting of young tea plants in the vacant areas of an RP section
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There are many types of pruning heights used in the various stages of the 3-4 year pruning cycle. A normal light pruning is given at around 5 cm above the last pruning mark. So the height of the pruning mark increases after every pruning and after a period of time (3-4 years) we need to reduce the tea bush frame for ease of all works including plucking. Hence a harder prune is required
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If you are interested in the finer nuances of tea cultivation, head to our website blog “The TeaGRAM”, where we have many more detailed posts about our sustainable farming practices. Links in bio 👆
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