Tea harvesting

fine plucking: When plucking the leaves for a high quality tea, they pluck the bud and the second and third leaves only. If more leaves are taken with the bud it is said to be a coarse plucking and produces a lower quality tea.

A typical tea bush will generally produce about three thousand tea leaves a year. this makes only one pound of tea.

Tea is graded by size. A whole leaf has better quality than broken leaf