A variety made of black tea, green tea, white tea, many times won the provincial famous tea evaluation of the name, excellent Tea award. Apart from the exquisite workmanship of the tea maker, it is enough to explain the excellent quality of this breed. Songxi "Kowloon White Tea" is such a variety, it is Fujian Provincial excellent tea varieties.
Songxi County is located in the northern part of our province, between the east longitude 118°33′ to 118°55′, north latitude 27°24′ to 27°51′, is the temperature and humidity subtropical monsoon mountain climate, the annual average temperature of 18.1 ℃, the average annual rainfall of 1658.8 mm, of which March-June is the rainy season, rainfall accounted for 65% of the year, The hillside is a red-yellow soil with a ph value between 4.43 and 6, with deep soil and fertile soil. Songxi County tea has a long history, the territory of the mountains Cham Lu Shan stone carvings in the "Fragrant rock" tea, the Ming Dynasty jiajing County records: "Tea, leaves to the rain before the production of the Usnic." Not long ago, Songxi selected National leisure agriculture rural Tourism Demonstration County, the provincial eco-county, after the National ecological County Assessment and acceptance, Songxi Eco-environment of another shining Halo, Songxi "Kowloon White Tea" varieties, is currently my province Green Tea District, the key promotion of Tea tree fine new varieties.
Provenance Research:
"Kowloon White Tea" originated in Songxi County town, Double Yuen village, Kowloon Gang. In 1963, the village Weimingsi and other people in the nine Longgang Open tea plantation, found three old tea tree, germination particularly early, white is particularly many, called "white hair (mm) tea." In 1965, the three tea leaves breeding branches to reproduce the survival of more than 20 seedlings, and then use these tea shoots to cuttage seedlings planted 12 acres, made of roasted green tea by review and identification, color, fragrance, taste, shape are featured. In 1981, the county Tea department on the Kowloon White Tea, and brought back more than 200 tea seedling planting control test, because the tea originated in the double-source Village Kowloon Hillock, so named "Kowloon White Tea", according to expert research, the tea tree has been at least a century of history.
Characteristic characteristics:
"Kowloon White Tea" is a single plant in the sexual group of clonal varieties, small tree type, large leaf species, average leaf 12.26cm, the maximum leaf 16cm, the average leaf width 5.05cm, the widest 6.7cm, the aspect ratio from 2.07 to 2.86, the average 2.43. Leaves elliptic, serrated, 21-38 pairs, average 29.3 pairs, leaf tip acuminate, aged leaf color demantoid, glossy, Yequillo uplifted, leaf body flattened, main veins obvious, lateral veins still obvious, 7-10 pairs, generally 8-9 pairs. Leaf blade angled for half-upper oblique. New shoots Yellow green, bud tip fat, white and more. Branching ability is strong, growth luxuriant, young tree canopy expands quickly.
"Kowloon White Tea" of the wintering bud germination at the end of February March, late March to early April mining, in the same area than Fau Yun 6th, one weeks later, and fuding Great White tea mining period is similar to the early Bud species, the annual Bud Shoot Wheel, effective growth 260-275 days, the end of the late November stop growth. This breed has a strong ability of breeding buds. The survival rate of cuttage and seedling colonization were higher than 90%. It has the characteristics of drought-tolerant, thin, resistant to fertilizer and strong in insect resistance.
Yield, quality and biochemical composition:
"Kowloon White Tea" high yield, good quality, high efficiency, according to different introduction area test report, high-yielding park per Mu can reach more than 380 kilograms, per MU value million or more. Under the same cultivation conditions, the average yield than the fuding large white tea (national varieties) to increase production of 32.2%, made of green tea shape strip knot, the peak revealed, hair draped, color green, fleshy flavor high alcohol, fresh cool back gan, soup color yellow green bright, green yellow neat. Made of black tea, white tea aroma of lofty, rich alcohol, white more, excellent quality, the tea content according to the Chinese Tea Science Research Institute biochemical Composition Test results are: Water extract 39.8%, tea polyphenols 20.82%, total amino acid 4.7%, coffee alkali 4.72%, are more than the control varieties fuding White Tea high. In recent years, the use of the new shoots of the development of "Kowloon Tsui Bud", "Kowloon Jade Leaf", "Kowloon Snow Bud" and other red, green, white tea samples, six times won the provincial famous tea evaluation name, excellent Tea award.
Main cultivation Techniques:
"Kowloon White Tea" developed roots, strong growth, high yield quality, in the cultivation of management to establish high standards of tea plantations, such as high ladder layer, digging ditches under the basal, topsoil back ditch mu apply fertilizer more than 5 tons. Reasonable close planting, double-row double-plant triangular planting, large line spacing of 150cm, small spacing of 30cm, spacing for 30cm, mu planted tea seedlings about 4000-6000 strains. It is beneficial to early stage and high yield. "Kowloon White Tea" rapid growth in the young, and the top advantage is strong, young pruning to take a number of shear, strengthen the method of retention or the use of sectional pruning, to adopt the means of cutting, in order to facilitate the branch, expand the canopy, cultivate strong high-yielding, stable production tree type.
"Kowloon White Tea" bud head fat, White is revealed, suitable for the production of white silver needles, maofeng, silver snail and other famous tea, the production of black tea, white tea quality is good. Therefore, in the mining system should adhere to the timely, batch tender picking principle to improve its yield and quality. The tea growth period, Autumn tea production is high, can reach the annual output of more than 30%, Autumn tea quality. Therefore, to strengthen the autumn tea plantation management and picking, to increase the application of quick-acting nitrogen fertilizer, special attention should be paid to control tea small green leaves Cicada and mites. In the mining system, to be based on tender, for the production of famous tea or high-grade green tea, improve the quality of tea and economic benefits.
Tea medium quality Kowloon White Tea