How Do You Grow Oolong Tea

Oolong tea: For oolong tea, choose the largest leaves from your tea plant. Leave them out in the sun for about 30 minutes to an hour, then bring them inside so that they can adjust to room temperature, where they will rest again for six to ten hours. Stir or shake the leaves every hour to help them oxidize.

Can you grow your own tea plants?

Well, you can! True tea – from the Camellia sinensis plant – can be grown in your garden if you live in a warm climate (zone 8 or warmer), or in a container in your home if you live in a cooler area. There’s just one catch, though: it’ll be three years before you can start harvesting leaves to make tea!

How it's made oolong tea?

• Withering: Fragile just-picked tea leaves are first intentionally bruised by tossing or shaking them. …
• Cooling: The tea leaves need time to rest and cool down from the heat of the sun withering before the rest of the processing takes place. …
• Light Rolling: