formontcalamus

D & T Coffee beans ripen radically over about six weeks on the plant. You pick thoes red each week untill all are picked. One large healthy bush will produce only about a quart/ 1-1/2 lb. You would need 4 or 5 big plants to actually enjoy your own harvest.

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banana berserker

i llllooovvveeee tropical plants including coffee plants!

D_&_T

like to get some seeds when weather gets warmer up north, as been 0 to 21F all week

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Richard

Coffee plants are commonly sold as an indoor tropical, ornamental plant under the botanical name "Coffea". To grow them to produce coffee beans, they need to be grown outdoors in part-shade, warm area with no danger of freeze. You'll need two plants for each person who drinks coffee. Processing the beans is error-prone, you can easily ruin your crop. In some cities you'll find a place that roasts fresh (green) coffee beans. Coffee plants do not grow true to variety from seed. Don't be fooled by internet sellers of coffee seeds or plants grown from seed. To get a true variety, you'll need a rooting. Always ask how the plant was propagated.

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island cassie

Aaron - the US postal system will no longer accept seeds by post from outside the USA - so you will be better off to order coffee beans from Formontcalamus as he can send them from Puerto Rico without any problems. Sorry but I cannot send any from here.

Cassie

Richard

When you grow from seed (beans), you will not get the cultivated variety but instead the species, typically Coffea arabica. The beans the plant will produce will be of o.k. quality, but nowhere near the quality of the parent.

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john_ny

I grew some from seeds, once. I gave one of the seedlings to my mother, who had it on a stepped plant stand, in front of a glass patio door, in Pennsylvania. She grew it into a sizeable, beautiful plant with glossy green leaves, wonderfully fragrant little white flowers, and beautiful red berries. She extracted the seeds from the berries, and replanted. She had three or four generations growing there - all on her little plant stand, in front of the glass doors.

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Dean W.

Interesting to know, Richard. So the coffee plantations are all started from cuttings, huh? That's alot of cuttings. How fast does coffee grow?

Cassie, I haven't heard about the US not allowing seeds in from other countries. I have gotten some from other countries in the past month with out problems. Anyhow, that eliminates me getting palm seeds from you.

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Richard

Tissue culture is common now, too. In the tropics the plants grow very quickly. In temperate parts some varieties are grown with out shade, otherwise species of Inga and Erythrina trees are used to provide inexpensive shade. Enterprising growers also grow orchids and other epiphytes in the tree branches.

All plant material coming into the U.S. is regulated by federal law, and many states have additional requirements. The postal inspectors can't catch it all, but anything they do discover will at best end up in quarantine for two years.

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island cassie

Dean - our post for the USA goes via our Miami box and they specifically exclude seeds.

Cassie

rbrgs

Coffee is grown commercially in Kona, but, a century ago, it was grown in East Hawaii, as well. I found some trees from an old plantation still hanging on in the forest, and, even better, two seedlings that were small enough to move. They look just like the variety that is currently grown in Kona; one has red berries and the other, yellow. Both are highly productive, but I haven't made any attempt to quantify just what they yield. But the branches are pretty packed with berries.

A later expedition into the forest (by my son) recovered 5 more coffee seedlings, but they are slightly different; the new growth has a pronounced redish tinge, and the berries are bigger. And yields appear lower, too.

I've been growing out seedlings to plant as a forest understory; so far; I've got about 1 1/4 acres that I've hand cleared the weed trees from. Around 280 coffee plants so far (and 70 bananas, but most of those are along the edges, where there's more sun). Coffee is easy enough to grow, it's the picking that's so time consuming.

SoBe Musa

It almost die with the cool temperatures early this year..them i trimmed down in march ( i thouth i killed.. terrible! )and is just now that is growing back..can anybody give some growing tips and how to go from here growing in a container ...is in a 10gal pot now.
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