5 Tips To Getting Your Coffee Plant to Fruit 

I have 2 trees from seed. One is in a kratky water pot and is thriving. The other is in soil; healthy but not as big. I knew most of these tips, but I was unaware I needed 5 Gallon worth of roots!! I was about to switch my nutrients solution as he is turning 3 years old, but I will hold back now knowing he needs more roots. Helpful video !

A long time ago I watched your video on your coffee plant and became convinced I would never be able to keep mine alive without volcanic ash, LOL. I planted it behind my shed under a big oak tree and it turns out that's all it wanted. it's 3 years old, over 6 ft tall right now and thriving, zone 9b/10

"You gotta roll with the punches for 2018" Hello from 2020 lol

As a Colombian who worked grabbing coffee long time ago in a plantation I found this very interesting!!!

I think all your hard work, research and experimental efforts of love with this coffee tree could be really really helpful for many other folks in the coffee research industry.

It is not correct to describe coffee as such a short tree. I have seen wild coffee in Ethiopia (unmanaged) that easily grows above 3 metres. I pruned my tree when it reached 2.5 metres (in London, UK); it flowered without much problem and I still have trees planted from the first batch. Finally, 'rainforest' is not the same as 'tropical forests' -and while there are differences across rainforests, in tropical rainforests near the equator, there are no seasonal differences (dry and wet), it rains pretty much daily! Please check you fully understand what you claim to know!

Ty ty ty. I need all the info on growing coffee & all its quirks!

Thanks for the tips! I’m growing my own coffee trees but I was lost on how make them grow healthy but now anymore. Awesome video! Keep it up!

Fabulous video, glorious, practical tips!! Thank you very much for sharing!!

Very helpful. will try tomorrow on my 10 year old Kona plant which has not yet fruited due to mismanagement (but looks beautiful)

every person have many interesting and hobbies to do. at your age as garderner is wonderful. this is many knowledge to know about science project, plant geography or plant climate changes, thank you keep it up.

Tip #6 Grow more than 1 coffee plant. In case one of your plants die in the process, or if you're trying to grow one of the other species of coffee. Coffea arabica is the only coffee plant that will self-pollinate.

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great info. i am a coffee planter and have been growing since 10yrs bt i did'nt know abt these things

What a gorgeous plant! Even if it doesn't fruit it is beautiful to have for its lush, green foliage. Thanks. I will consider purchasing a coffee plant. Would be nice if it produced beans...but if not...just as nice. Awesome vid! Happy New Year🎉🎉

very informative and thorough!

All of what you say isn’t always the case! I have a coffee plant that is only in a 2-3 gallon pot(about 2.5 feet tall)and it is flowering for the first time I just noticed today! Also, the flowers are forming on new growth that just came over the winter while it’s been in the house. I live in Minnesota, so it lives on the deck in the summer and in a south facing window in the winter. Also, if I didn’t keep the soil moist at all times, it would be dead, or have lost most of its leaves from stress! Don’t let your coffee plants dry out, they do not like that!

Ty Luke...very informational!!!

Thats 40 liters For the rest of the world.

My coffee tree was well over 6 feet tall. I pruned it and it continued to bear fruit.

The first episode of 2018!

How many pounds of coffee could you get from that tree? If I wanted to grow all my coffee how many trees would I need? I am in the Philippines.

It looks so much different then my coffee plant! Other then the leaves. I'm pretty sure my coffee tree is actually like 5 trees. I've propagated a few too and put them in different containers I'm sure it's going to take a long long time!

Can you make a coffee playlist ?

Root ball must fills 5gal then move to at least a 10-15gal pot

Thank you! The best info I've heard on growing coffee to date. One question, my coffee plant is in a 1 gallon pot so I'd there any harm in moving it into a bigger 5 or 10 gallon pot now or must I go though the gradual pot size increases?

Can you do a coffee plant care video? How often you water, fertilization, etc. I have a smaller plant that is putting out a lot of growth. It’s been in its container for a while and I’m not sure how to tell when the nutrients have been leached. Since they’re acidic, I was wondering if I can use spent coffee grounds to keep it happy. Yours is beautiful. Thanks in advance.

I literally think about asking a question on this and bam next day there's a video on it 👍👍👍

I live in Florida and one week in January it was 80 plus degrees for a week straight and my coffee tree bloomed! And made berries! Then it turned cold again and all my berries died...

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do you have any tips on indoor pollination of coffe trees? i have heard that they only bloom in the night

If you're growing a Coffee plant indoors do you need to do anything special where fertilization is concerned, since the plant doesn't have the access to wind and insects that an outdoor plant would?

My coffee tree is over 10 foot tall and it keeps going up! I think pruning is needed! However, it's blooming, so...

Very helpful. Thank you so much! :) I shared this on twitter. Have you named your coffee plant? I named mine Stanley! He also loves quartz crystals in the soil. He's growing super fast. Again thank you! :))

Hello I am from South Africa, my coffee tree stems on my seedling are turning Brown and the plants starts dieing, what can I do thanks Wayne

Good info for coffee loving gardeners out there. Thanks and stay warm.

Can we please have an update and answer some of these questions, in the comments section?!? Thank you.

Can these grow in Arizona?????

Trifecta plus fertilizer..in feb-march/buds in april. Buds set on in April Phosphorous fertilizer..to but n fruit June/july dial back water..must be outside to be pollinated..dial bk water-let rain water the plant but watch make sure it has water..while flowering.. Center must be thinned.. Leave leaves on tips but remove all leaves from main branch out to 4-5 inch from end of branch tip. Leave leaves on tips!!

Does anyone know if this plant is poisonous to cats?

Which coffee tree would you recommend for north central Texas?

Where did you get your 10 gallon planter from?

What about using coffee grounds as fertilizer. Coffee grounds have key nutrients required for plant growth.

"Just gotta roll with the punches of 2018" lmao little did he know the years to come

What!? My coffee is fruiting in a window box with a fist size root ball.

You might find this interesting! I've got a coffee plant growing in a 2 Gallon planter, and it's putting out coffee cherries! I've got about 20 cherries on this one plant right now! My other one is in a 1 Gallon planter (they're both 10 years old) and it's putting out cherries too! Now that they're producing cherries, I'm not sure if I should move them to a bigger pot or not. Any tips?

I have a small coffee plant, only about 40 cm tall, and it has 5 thin trunks! Should I separate these so there’s only one trunk per pot or will the plant take care of that?

will it grow in southern california?

My coffee plant is only in a mug as the pot for now, so will come back to this video in a few years...:)

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At what age/size should we start de-leafing?

Can I grow dwarf -size fruit trees such as figs, peach, and coffee in 10-gal grow bags (fabric pots)?

So do bees get a buzz off coffee flowers? :P

How old is your plant?

You should avoid over-adjectivating, speak slower and vocalize.

Really great info, thanks! Do you think you could do a video on tips for getting citrus to flower?

What would you suggest to buy with trifecta? My plant still has a few years until it will produce but i want to be on it. Glad i found you.

Can a branch cut from a coffee tree still grow?

You have videos for every plant I want to have!!

If I fertilise the tree with aquarium waste, will it have enough potassium?

I love your videos! My coffee tree seems to be a total anomaly…it is arabica 10ft tall x 4ft wide grown indoors, and grows all year except in midsummer. I chop it in oct/nov and by December it will have multiple 5-10” shoots, which I keep chopping through the year. It is in a 25gal tall pot and I’m trying to get more lateral bushy growth to maximize berries…should I try a 24” wide but shorter 25gal pot? It flowers and fruits from sept-march.

Just showing Rick some of your videos, and this caught his eye :) I guess he may want a coffee tree next. I told him he can have one when I get a garden!

What if someone only wants to max the leaf yield? Asking for a friend

Question if I’d like to replant my coffee plant into a bigger pot can I cut some of the roots off to open up more space? My plant is about 5 feet tall about 10 years old. It also has some white gooey stuff growing on it and I’ve tried getting it off with vinegar and it goes away for a while but then it comes back what am I doing wrong?

My coffee tree is 1 year old. It’s loaded with flowers but they keep drying up and falling off but doesn’t make fruit after. Any ideas?

How do you prevent the browning of the leaf tips? Also how do you keep the soil acidic enough to allow the plant to absorb the iron in the soil? I have a 3 year pointed bourbon coffee tree and an a 3 year Caturra Amarillo that’s about to flower soon. I live in Southern California btw.

I live in Puerto Rico, on my property, after Hurricane Maria I noticed 20 or 30 plants that I thought was coffee (maybe 12 inches tall). I downloaded this species identifying app and it said Arabica Coffee. So now I have about 60 plants. They’re about waist height. I haven’t touched them or anything besides watering during drought season. When will they begin giving fruit? The oldest is about 4-5 years old and are much taller. Around chest height. Same question

thanks. nice video. do you have decaf plant seeds for sale? ;)

I could use some help with my 9ish month old coffee plant. It's probably 2 foot tall at this point. But I have a few concerns... The plant is losing its lower leaves, so about 50% of the plant is trunk at this point, with lots of outward growth at the top. 1) Did it not get enough light? 2) Why are the bottom leaves turning yellow and dropping? 3) How often should I be feeding it? The new leaves look healthy, but I'm constantly losing lower leafs, which is concerning... Plant has been grown indoors always, soil is a mix of a variety of things including crushed lava rock.

no matter the month, as soon as i move any plant inside, it becomes growing season again. keep the temps down and light low

I have a 6 year old coffee plant that's big and happy. I'm having some flowering issues though. It forms a thousand buds, they develop but then the flower don't open. 99% of the buds just turn brown and die; the 10 buds that do open as flowers form cherries. Not sure why none of the buds open as flowers. Any ideas?

On the fertilizer Trifecta Plus, the directions are for pounds per Sq Feet. How much do you use in watering your coffee tree? Please help, I don't want to kill my tree the first time fertilizing it. Thanks

very good job Luck but i have a question ..where is the original seeds? because you live in Michigan but i live in Nevada and my family grow coffee in my country in different weather....in my house and in the farmer and i remember when i have vacations over there the nights very cool...and same times the day time also. i am from Colombia and my family from Buga CITY...but i grow in Cali ..and all my family has coffee plants all over in the house. i became a gardener 3 years ago and i love your videos thank you for be there.

Hello I have 4 coffee seedlings. The largest being about 8 inches tall and is in a 6 inch pot. They seem to be doing well but only have leaves at the top and are not gaining trunk girth. What am I doing wrong and how can I help my plants? Thanks!

Hey not going to bother watching the rest. You gotta acknowledge the fact that it does rain every day in the rain forest wtf? or else it would not be called that. Tropical rainforests do indeed RAIN every day lmao

I'm guessing the MI stands for Michigan, I live in the UP and I'm just wondering if you're in the upper or lower peninsula? I tried to find it on your about page, but I wasn't able to. Just wondering because there's quite a difference from where I'm at and places downstate, gardening-wise.

I just bought Arabian coffee tree what kind of fertilizer do I use 20-20-20 or 15-10-15 those are just examples

I have coffee seeds but I don't know how to germinate them. Any tips would be appreciated.

I just bought one but it has like 9 seedlings in one 3 inch pot. I didn't find the planting guide. Do I separate them?

If half of it is green and the top is brown almost black does that mean its dying and is there a way to revive it ???

I have a few questions about flowering and fruiting. I notice two berries on my coffee plant which I recently turned into an indoor plant once it started showing brown leaf edges. It is still below 5 feet and I don’t think it has matured enough to start fruiting. 1. Should I prune the two berries to encourage more tree growth 2. Once it is ready for fruiting do I need to manually pollinate the flowers?

Have mine now for 5 years. It lost a ton of leaves. I keep it in Maine where I have room for it. It increased in size after 2nd year. When I first got it, it stayed the size of a potted miniature rose, not doing anything. Took it to Maine, it became a 3 foot tall shrub. Still no fruit. I will be repotting it in a few weeks.

After I found your coffee tree video I got some from Amazon and love it but didn't need 8 so gave away most to friends at work

What do you do if all the leaves fall what would be the best method to fix it ???

great video!!! very informative but not overwhelming; so interesting to hear about how the plant signals work love that

THANK YOU YOU ARE VERY GOOD, I WILL BE BUYING A LIVE PLANT.

Kratom related?

I used coffee ground for my money tree and the leaves are curly anything to with the coffee ground? It's not dieing or any the leaves is dark green and it doesn't grow either 😕

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Where do you get your fertilizer- online maybe??

Give your plant more dark

Does anybody get a reply from this guy to their questions?

Bring this back maybe even a new species that maybe works better for ya environment

Bravo 👏! Nice advice!

I have a few coffee plants indoors. The oldest one is just producing its first buds. It is not growing them on bare branches like you say in this video. It is forming them right where the leaf joins the branch and mostly on the green growth of branches just starting to bark up. I didn’t even think about the pot size of my plant. It must be at least five gallons if it is producing flower buds. I am watering it every one to two weeks. The only fertilizing I have done is some lava rocks and occasional miracle grow last summer and some biochar at the beginning of this year. I use some fertilizer spikes before that too and they seemed to work. I must be doing something right and your guide helps. Thanks.

what about citrus trees i have a few of them one is 9 yrs old and no fruit yet (indoors im in minnesota)

Outstanding info

Wonderful information! Thank you

Hey I have a qustionbis b it possible to fuse a blueberry and a grape?

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