Silver Tips white tea plucking: single apical bud harvesting on high-grown estates?

Manufacturing genuine Ceylon Silver Tips demands single unopened apical vegetative buds harvested from specific Camellia sinensis clones (such as TRI 2043). Harvesting occurs between 7:30 AM and 9:30 AM on crisp, sunny mornings. The unopened bud is coated in dense white epidermal hairs (pubescence or trichomes) that protect tender young tissue from high-altitude UV radiation. Pluckers snap the bud cleanly at the base without touching the tip, placing buds into silk-lined pouches. The buds undergo zero mechanical rolling or fermentation, drying under filtered sunlight to retain their silvery-white needle form.