I have a coffee-tree. It`s 3 years old. It lives in my flat. & it doesn`t give me berries.... Why? It looks very nice! Please, help me wiht a quastion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From what I've read, coffee plants begin to flower after 3-4 years. However it is also noted that many do not flower at all under typical indoor conditions as it requires high humidity to do so.
I have a 3 year old coffee tree that is now 12 feet high and bloomed for the second time this spring. It now has 500 bean ripening on the tree. It is in a corner facing south and west with diffused light. The winter temp is around 17C and the summer as high as 28C. It is extremely dry and I never mist it - just keep it well water. Maybe it thrives under lack of attention?
Hi, oliveoyl. Sounds like a beautiful tree. Is it in a solarium with a high ceiling? Is the room heated or unheated? Do you collect the beans for roasting? My guys came in a 4" pot early this year and they are only 8" tall now. I can't imagine they'll reach anywhere near 12' in another 2 years. Do they really grow that quickly?
coffee-tree The tree lives in my living room which has a huge wall of windows 20' by 12' that are covered by solarweave shades to block the intense sun. (It shares the windows with a 8' banana tree but that is another story) In the winter it gets quite cool (Kootenay region) It had 16 beans that ripened last fall that I stuck in the freezer over the winter and planted this spring.(after I removed the outer layers) They took 6 plus weeks to germinate and 12 grew. I was going to cut it this spring but it had hundreds of blossoms with incredible fragrance and started producing beans so I left it, but it has grown over 4 feet since then. I will save some of the beans to grow again and try to roast some then I really am going to cut it down.
20 plus years ago, I grew a coffee plant to roughly 12' tall in several years. It bloomed sparcely and a few beans ripened, certainly no where near enough to roast. It stood in a stair well and grew up between the handrails. I eventually gave it away.
I've got a 25 year old coffee tree in my dining room. SE corner, with the branches that are exposed to the s and e windows producing fairly regularly. E more than S for some reason. 8 feet and some tall, nearly as wide, and I have eleven babies out of the incubator. Several more to come, from old dried up beans or fresh bright cherries right off the tree...didn't seem to matter. I'll never get a cup of coffee out of it unless I get a bigger window, but it sure is fun. Carl
Fellow coffee growers, is your plant a single tree or multiple trees grown together in a single container to increase the density of the foliage? I'm wondering if the latter has any significant impact on the growth of the trees as they are competing with each other for light and nutrients.
Two stems... seems likely it was grown from a whole cherry. I bought it from a local flower/plant shop a long time ago. Currently residing in a pot 18" diameter 12" deep. I'll need a couple of strong people when it decides it needs potting on. Competes for light with the corner wall, and since I like my house the way it is, it'll just have to keep on competing. Its survived a move to and from Calgary, and it think it was actually producing cherries before we went there. Carl
