It will require a certain amount of patience if you have decided to try growing your own coffee beans. It takes about four years for the dark green “Coffea Arabica” plant to produce it’s first crop of coffee beans. However-looking on the bright side-your coffee plant will live to be about sixty years old. Actually, it will do most of it’s producing from the about the sixth year onwards.
While you are waiting for the initial four years to pass, you will be able to enjoy the beauty of the plant. The coffee plant actually starts out as a shrub that’s adorned with fragrant white flowers. If you are growing your coffee plant in the ideal climate it will soon become more than a shrub and can reach a height of 30 feet or more.
The trick is to keep trimming the plant down to a manageable height. This can be done without damaging the plant and a five or six foot plant would be about perfect. It will be far easier to care for and harvest then a plant that’s taller than your house. Keep in mind that a single plant does not have a huge yield, and you should plant more than one if you hope to have a steady supply of coffee beans. One six-foot plant will only produce about three pounds of coffee every year.
Your coffee plant is not going to survive outdoors in Northern Canada. For that matter, it won’t survive anywhere in Canada except perhaps on the West Coast. If you have any kind of a cold winter in the country you live in, an outdoor coffee plant won’t make it through the first year.
The optimum temperature for a coffee plant is between 65 and 75 degrees F. It basically requires this temperature year round, all day and all night. The odd dip to 50 degrees F is not too bad, but one bout of frost and you’ll be dashing over to the local supermarket to grab a five-week-old bag of ground coffee off the shelf.
Most likely, your attempt at growing your own coffee will take place indoors. It’s not really that complicated once you get your hands on a seedling from the local nursery or perhaps a cutting from a friend who already has a plant started.
If you have nothing but time and a ton of patience you can try planting green coffee beans. This is more challenging than planting a seedling as many of the beans won’t sprout. Plant lots of them about one-half inch deep if potting soil that is fertilized about every two weeks. If you can get a few to sprout, then plant then in their own pots once they grow a little. Experiment with the lighting, but many experts feel direct sunlight is best.
I think it would be a great idea to start a coffee plant right now and set a goal of growing, roasting, and grinding your very own coffee to enjoy after your 2012 Christmas dinner.
What a special treat that would be. All the stars would have to line up in order for that coffee to be merrily perking on the kitchen counter as you’re finishing up Christmas dinner, but what an interesting and challenging idea.
Hey! I think I’m going to try it.
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