Indira Ashokshah, a Bengaluru terrace gardener, shows Brut how to grow a coffee plant and enjoy authentic South Indian coffee at home. ️
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00:00Now, let me show you from the beginning.
00:10The medium you need is here, one pot of soil, okay, red soil you need and then one pot of
00:18a one or one and a half pot of cocoa peat and then a little compost.
00:24This is homemade compost, I use all the kitchen waste.
00:28So, you need a container like this and the container should have at least two to three
00:35drainage holes.
00:36First, you have to take a slab like this, any slab, you have to keep it on the hole,
00:43okay, the drainage hole.
00:46The once you cover the drainage hole, then mix all these together like this.
00:52You have to mix them, the compost, the cocoa peat and the red soil.
00:58So, once you thoroughly mix it, fill it in the container.
01:02Now, the soil is ready.
01:07So, this is the fruit, this is the seed, there is a seed inside, this is the outer skin of
01:15the coffee fruit, okay.
01:18First remove the pulp, yeah, can you see, sorry, remove the skin.
01:23Once you remove the skin, you get a seed like this.
01:26You can dry them or even without drying you can sow, see, make a depression like this
01:33and then put them inside.
01:35Now, again make a depression like this, put them and close it.
01:41This also you can just sow it like this, make a depression, sow, make a depression and sow
01:48it and then cover it.
01:54You have to protect them from direct sunlight and rain.
01:59So, try to keep them in a very, very semi shade for about 8 to 10 days till the, what
02:06you call, seed sprouts.
02:08So, you have to wait till the sapling gives six leaves.
02:13Once you get six leaves, then you can transfer them to a bigger container, a bigger pot
02:18or a bucket or a drum, whatever you like.
02:27See, this is the coffee plant, this is 8 years old.
02:30You can see them, it's grown in a bucket here, 20 liters plastic bucket, moist, more of moisture.
02:38The soil should be moist always, so you know, during summer I think you will have to water
02:45at least twice a day to check whether it is moist, you can just insert your finger.
02:51If the finger goes deep in, that means the moisture level is perfect, okay, but at no
02:58time there should be any water stagnation.
03:02If there is water stagnation, the plant will certainly die.
03:09Once it turns into a dark red here, you can see here, dark red, come closer, dark red
03:20here, see you can pluck it, you can remove the pulp, sorry, you can remove the skin here.
03:30This do not throw, you can eat the skin, this will be very sweet and this is the seed, this
03:36is the coffee bean.
03:38Once the bean is dried up, then I take it to a coffee shop where the coffee blender,
03:45where the coffee shop there, they blend it to a powder and I add 20% chicory to 80% coffee
03:53powder for the decoction coffee that I sip every morning and evening.
04:00This is how the foam is created here, because a decoction coffee should be foamy.
04:12This is the authentic coffee and you know, see here, can you see the foam?
04:19You have to drink it sip by sip because the heat will be so much, it will be very hot,
04:26sip by sip like this.
04:31So this is the authentic South Indian decoction coffee.