When do you harvest coffee beans

[4grandbabies]

You can grow coffee beans in the US?? Omg!! I am going to pot 10 of those and stick them all over my house!

My plant was beautiful, then I stuck it on the deck for summer, it was not happy a lost a lot of leaves, but is recovering and I will be getting a pot of coffee this year, now I know it likes indirect sun light (the ones you buy from seed companies.) It takes at least 4 years to bloom and bear.it is awesome! It is a learning thing for me, but would also like to grow more of them.

 

[4grandbabies]

Coffee report. I have much to learn. When I picked my berries, they were red and I thought they were ready, I left some on because they were'nt red enough. Now they are darker and larger than what I picked, so lesson one, let them stay on till really dark red. Lesson 2- I roasted them quite a while in the oven, but apparently not long enough.. so next year I will do a dark roast for more flavor. It is one plant, and I barely harvested enough to make one pot of coffee, but I anticipate a larger harvest next year, combined with this years lesson. REsults, was a coffee that was way too mild, with a ho hum flavor due to lack of roasting time. I also found out that the plant shouls be repotted every year or so. That part I dread, its taller than me now.

 

[AMKuska]

@4grandbabies my MIL says she has a coffee bean plant that she's had for a decade or so and it has never produced. I suspect she keeps it in her sun room which is really well lit. Could this be why?

 

[4grandbabies]

I would imagine so, I finally found a site about them, and it said indirect light (which surprised me) and also to repot every year or so.