{"id":10,"date":"2006-10-04T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T22:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=9"},"modified":"2006-10-04T12:19:24","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T22:19:24","slug":"benikaori-cuttings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/10\/benikaori-cuttings\/","title":{"rendered":"Benikaori cuttings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a got a call from <a href=\"http:\/\/rustynote.blogspot.com\/\">Takahiro<\/a> saying he had a few tea cuttings for me, from his own plants!  This is really wonderful and unexpected.  I quickly dashed over to pick them up, and he told me a little about the cultivar, Benikaori.<\/p>\n<p>I had tried looking for any information about it online, but found none.  The USDA Tea pamphlet says only &#8220;in Japan [..] used for black tea production&#8221;.  That&#8217;s mysterious, as Japan does not drink black tea &#8211; why would they grow it? Takahiro explained that after WWII, when Japan was economically devastated and looking for things they could export, &#8216;Benikaori&#8217; was developed as a cultivar that could be grown in Japan and made into good black tea for export. It&#8217;s still pretty mysterious how it ended up being grown in Hawai&#8217;i <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00105-taka.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00105-taka_small.jpg\" \/><\/a>(which has a really different climate).<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Takahiro gave me a bucket:<br \/>\nI managed to get 86 cuttings from that little bucket! He said that even cuttings from the totally green tips of the plant can sometimes root, so i extracted every bit of material i possibly could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a got a call from Takahiro saying he had a few tea cuttings for me, from his own plants! This is really wonderful and unexpected. I quickly dashed over to pick them up, and he told me a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/10\/benikaori-cuttings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}