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Seedy Subjects! => Seeds Wanted => Topic started by: ILoveMyPlants on December 01, 2010, 06:30:20 PM
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hey all im looking for coffee seeds will be willing to trace if anyone can help thanks
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hello "Plants".... not sure that many of us here will be growing coffee plants to get seeds..... there are a few folks selling the seeds of Coffea arabica on ebay.... and I expect Chilterns sell 'em......
yes, they do.....http://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/chilternseeds/moreinfo/pid/31509860
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Starbucks in my town have untreated beans as part of a display
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ok thanks maggi are they hard to grow do you know ?
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I've never tried, Plants! Easy enough if you have a huge plantation in Kenya or Jamaica, I suppose. This website might be a help.....http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/homegrowing.htm
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nice info and thank you ;)
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I have a few seed from my Norwegian Norvegica plantation ;) I can send you a few if you send me a PM with your address.
A wonderful house plant which is amazing when in bloom, the perfume filling the house at that time followed by the fruits which are tasty and also rich in coffein - just remember to save the seeds (I have a coffee seed spitting bowl in my living room for those eating the fruit). These can then be roasted for that annual homegrown homebrewed pot of norvegica coffee (if only I could limit my coffee drinking to that ;)).
..and don't worry you won't get seed from the spitting bowl ;)
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thanks stephen i will not be so fussy as your so kind
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p.s i also have 2 bird of paradise seeds if this is any good if u didnt wish any of the ones in pm
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Starbucks in my town have untreated beans as part of a display
Coffee beans have to be relatively fresh to germinate and I suspect display beans might be past it. I tried several times without success before a friend gave me some fresh from his house plant.
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i didn't realise you could get fruit indoors--does it need full sun indoors? i wonder if the coffee plants which show up semi-regularly in mass market house plant racks would produce fruit?
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I don't think it needs full sun, it's after all often cultivated in the shade of trees. I've had my plant on the windowsill in both NE and SE corners of my house, but this far north the sun more or less circles the house in summer! Not much sun in winter though and survives that fine as well as large day-night temperature fluctuations. The main problem is that it's a thirsty plant.
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yeah, i am a bad waterer..i have done badly in the past with citrus, avocado, etc...lol i am best with cacti and succulents.....
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I have some ripe fruit on a large, 2m+ Kona coffee tree. Stephen I did not realize the fruit were edible. I'll try some when I get to the greenhouse in the morning. And the fragrance in flower is amazing. Over all I find them very easy to grow in the house.
Aaron
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well! :D :D How wrong was I when I said I didn't think many of us would be growing coffee plants? :-X :-[ ::)
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I had one for a few years, standing on the floor just back from the south facing living room window. It flowered and set fruit but not enough for a pot of coffee.
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I have some ripe fruit on a large, 2m+ Kona coffee tree. Stephen I did not realize the fruit were edible. I'll try some when I get to the greenhouse in the morning. And the fragrance in flower is amazing. Over all I find them very easy to grow in the house.
Aaron
Wow, a 2m coffee plant!! Must be a sight in bloom! I have a note that Kona in particular makes a good house plant and can be used in Bonzai!
It's rather strange that juice from the berries isn't marketed as it must otherwise be a waste product. The berries also contain caffeine. Coffee juice from the ripe fruits is apparently popular in some African countries where it is also fermented to a wine. Imagine that - wine with caffeine... The leaves are also brewed into a kind of tea (qut'i in Ethiopia). The leaves contain higher levels of caffeine than the beans/seeds!
I also have a note that Kona coffee fruit makes "a very richly flavored, fairly acid and overwhelmingly aromatic beverage"
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It flowered and set fruit but not enough for a pot of coffee.
I exaggerated a bit....
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its true maggi no where eles it is popular so i can see your point and the 4 years it takes :D
hi cohan nearly most types of plants can be grown indoors what you will need is a good setup
if u find out the photo period of the plants this is how it can be worked im sure a coffee plant is 14 hour lights off during flowering but check as i may be wrong
if your doing this with natural sun then photo period will happen alone i would go with the grow setup as with light this can mean
mass production of a plant
better supervision
and i may be wrong but im sure u can flower it yourself but changing the lights time for on and off
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My plant flowers in 24 hours light here as it flowers mid-summer :) (it doesn't get dark)
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intresting stephen i didnt think this was possible :D the joy of autoflowering hehe