Hot-stalled Coffee Varieties:?

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Now it's beginning to develop a lot of coffee varieties that are more resistant to heat and disease. Logically, it's a long-term solution to climate change. But there's always one big question: what about the quality?

Does this new variety go after complexity and the flavor characters of arabica classics? Or should we start a compromise between "quality vs survival"? If you're in a farmer position or a roaster, would you prefer high quality but high risk, or more stable but ordinary flavor?

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from the farmer's position: survival was just a quality. if the plants die of heat and drought, there's nothing to ask. that choice actually doesn't exist for a small farmer whose life is in the garden.

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i understand your position Ahmad and it's valid. I just want to name it: if there's a replating program with heat-tolerant varieties that already have cup scores, farmers don't have to pure sacrifice quality. But there does need to be someone who facilitates the program, the government, the operatives, or the committed buyer.

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i've tried Zroast some lot of varieties that claimed climate- residency of different originals. Some of it's good, some of it's flat. The final quality is still highly dependent on terroir, aliases, and processing is not just its variety.

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this trade-off is real, but I want to name it: Routine 11 in Kenya for example, or some Sarchimor derivative. Not Gesha's equivalent, but far above ordinary Robusta. There's a middle ground here.

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i have an acquaintance whose garden is on Flores, he switches 30% of the area to a more resistant local variety. First year the score went down. But two years later he said he'd recover and the results were stable again. The adaptation process of varieties to a new terroir takes a few cycles.

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for premium buyer, transparency is critical. I'm used to sourcing Bourbon or Typica from a particular original based on cup score and relationship. If all of a sudden the variety changes to hybrids without information, it's a matter of trust and it can violate the expectations already built.

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i think it's up to the market target as well. if you play in a special highway-end, quality can't be compromised too far. if the target volume or midrange, survival varieties are more economic. there is no one answer that applies to all farmers.

Hot-stalled Coffee Varieties:?

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