Nigel > writes:

> A Georgian (ex Soviet) I have worked with has bought a small tea
> garden and has hives of bees busily making honey from Camellia
> sinensis flowers. As a teaman I dislike this - tea bushes should be
> kept in the non flowering juvenile phase of rapid leaf production by
> strict training and severe pruning - flowering bushes equals bad
> husbandry and butts should be kicked.

I wonder if you could elaborate on this. Specifically, are you saying
that tea plants that are being kept for, well, filling our cups should
*never* be allowed to flower and bear fruit? And could you please say
exactly what kind of pruning and training will prevent flowering?

/Lew
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