looking for coffee seeds

[ILoveMyPlants]

hey all im looking for coffee seeds will be willing to trace if anyone can help thanks


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[Maggi Young]

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

[mark smyth]

Starbucks in my town have untreated beans as part of a display

[ILoveMyPlants]

ok thanks maggi are they hard  to grow do you know ?



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[Maggi Young]

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

[ILoveMyPlants]

nice info and thank you


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[Stephenb]

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  

[ILoveMyPlants]

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

[Stephenb]

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.

[cohan]

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?

[Stephenb]

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. 

[cohan]

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.....

[Afloden]

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

[Maggi Young]

well!  How wrong was I when I said I didn't think many of us would be growing coffee plants? 

[Roma]

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.