How To Grow Coffee In Containers at Home! Complete Growing Guide
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- čas přidán 2. 10. 2016
- In this episode we will be showing you how to grow coffee from seed, in containers, at your home!!! Growing your own coffee can be rewarding, but challenging. We will talk about how to fertilize your coffee tree, pruning, watering, temperature, light, days till harvest, and soil type. We will also cover nutrient deficiencies like iron, magnesium, and nitrogen.
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I’ve been growing coffee in Michigan since 2004. My tree is about 8’ tall. It yields about 1.5 lbs of coffee after roasting, per year. Thanks for your video!
I have done pretty much the exact opposite of these tips and my coffee trees grow rapidly. 1) Large pot, to provide enough water 2) Normal potting mix 3) They only thrive in morning sun/afternoon shade (eastern exposure) or they burn 4) I fertilize with worm castings and never have deficiencies 5) They take as much water as I can give them 6) My coffee trees love high temperatures. It is funny how drastically different treatments in gardening can still get great results.
So where are you from then? Just curious if the environment has anything to do with the differences.
I live in Florida. I have a two feet coffee tree and it now has green cherries. It’s in one gallon pot. I’m about to switch it to a 5 gallon pot. I have fertilizer and ground volcano rocks. How should I do the layering?
Thanks
Home reared worm castings can indeed makes a world of different!
Florida is a huge difference than Michigan! 😊
You crammed hours of research into a 25 min video. Thank you!!! Not All Heros Wear Capes.
not all capes wear hero’s
😂❤😂
AMEN
@@joeroganofficial5433 amen to that
Wow, I live in the middle of Vietnam and my family farming coffees, in my home town it's so easy to grow a coffee tree, we just put its seed in the soil in the rainny season ( we actually just have 2 season - rain and dry) and waiting to it. They grow perfectly no need much care. I think water and sunlight play the most important role in farming coffees. If you have a chance to visit Vietnam, don't forget to visit to Dak Mil ( Đắk Mil - it's my hometown and also the centre of coffee in Vietnam ).
Awesome!!!
You guys plant Robusta. This type of coffee needs less care and they have lower quality unlike Arabica which the rest of the world consume. Plus Robusta is mostly used in instant coffee and we all know how that taste.
Amazing
I would like to buy coffee from your family.
@@tenzinrigdol5936 Ut oh, coffee supremicist 👈 over here. Vietnam has some of the best coffee in the world. Think before you write man.
0:00 - Introduction
1:40 - It took Luke about 4 years to get fruit
2:21 - Recommends only moving to bigger pots when coffee is root-bound/crowded
4:10 - If growing from seed use fresh coffee berry
4:48 - Potting up examples
5:45 - Add crushed volcanic rock
7:07 - Feeding+nutrients
7:35 - Identify iron deficiency
9:32 - Temps & acclimating
13:07 - Identify sunburn
13:41 - Watering
15:06 - Preferred temps
16:23 - Don't prune
19:42 - Identify deficiencies & fixes
I got a 4" plant about 3 years ago, stuck it in a gallon bucket and dumped yard soil in it, left it out on the back porch and let Florida have it it 😂. Occasionally, I pour coffee grounds around on the soil, - yes coffee for coffee - and the thing is so hardy and lush. No beans yet but hey, I don't drink coffee, I just stick stuff in pots and they grow. - lol.
The biggest tip I have, as my trees are scarily healthy and menacing in size, is temperature... Especially if you have starts.
As you said, they are tropical plants. And it's not so much about what happens in the tropics as what doesn't happen, which is minimal light and temperature variations. Keep your starts nice and warm, preferably 70 degrees to 80. The trunks are slim and sensitive. Mine has never known a temperature less than 75. This may be why you have more success with seed, as the tree is adapting to temperature changes from the very beginning.
I also gave mine artificial light. Probably too much... But I wasn't going to fuss with buying a timer... It got a nice LED panel 24 hours a day for like 3 years. I don't think you need to go that extreme, but if your plant is getting 3 to 4 hours of sun per day in winter, it will not be happy and will drop leaves.
Leaf drop is normal, but should be minimal. This is especially true when they are younger. I noticed that the supplemental light greatly reduced my leaf drop. So keep that in mind if you do not have a great southern facing window.
My tree drops leaves seasonally. Every year before flower buds start to show, I'm going to lose leaves. Mostly center leaves and mostly leaves that are between 2 and 3+ years old. If your losing leaves closer to your growing tips, your tree is not pleased. My tree will likely be 9' by the end of this season, so I get quite a bit of drop.
If your tree makes it to adolescence and flowers for you... It likes you and your care... And man is it a reward. The flowers, although not long lasting, can be strongly scented. I find they are strongest on the second day.
Good luck to all!
any advice on nutrients and ph?
Thanks for the additional info! How much coffee does a single tree produce? Can you support your own coffee intake all year on your tree's production?
Thanks for the detailed info. A timer is almost always worth keeping in mind, imo.
1/3 less power, 1/3 longer led life, 1/3 less heat. My LED's all turn off, through the warmest part of the day.
Some plants will grow well under 24hr light though. Those that use a lot of CAM photosynthesis ( Cacti, IME), will grow better with some darkness.
What’s IME
@@limitedassurance there is very little information out there! But if it is consistently flowering and setting fruit, you're doing great!
As I have learned more about rubiaceae, the growth habit of mature coffee trees makes a whole lot more sense.
Here in California it grows effortlessly, I didn’t even know about the volcanic rock trick, thank youuuuuu!!! For that 🙏🏻
Dude, I am so excited! I bought some Primos coffee company, raw coffee beans. Within two days using paper towels, cinnamon and rainwater and setting them on a plant warmer. I have a sprout! Most seeds I’ve done this week due take two weeks. It’s blowing my mind! I do hope I can grab some coffee plants.😅
7:50 "you have to use a very high nitrogen fertilizer in combination with a very high nitrogen fertilizer", did you mean iron and nitrogen?
I think so. But bricks giving off absorbed sunlight? Does he mean heat?
I have a 8 year old Coffee plant that have survived for some reason. It had a few signs that told me that something was wrong. But you seem to have explained every single one of them in this video. Thank you so much! Let's hope that it will one day have fruit like yours :)
I actually ordered two 4 inch trees after watching your clip when your tree was at 4 years and you where harvesting the fruit. I just have to say your channel is one of my faves sooo helpful
So much later than the publishment of this video and still helpful - I just learned why my Pomegranate plant has burnt tips! I could never figure out why it looked very healthy but the tips were burnt looking. Your almost offhanded comment made me realize my plant is always in low humidity since I moved it around in my house for more sun. Thank you!
Luke I love your enthusiasm and you are so knowledgeable about anything that grows leaves! If it can be planted, you are my go to guy! Gary pilarchik and calikim are great too but you really give detailed information! You guys really get me wanting to try to grow everything you talk about! Thank you so much for being such an amazing mentor to me and everyone else starting this gardening journey, it has really given me something to look forward to, even in the so dreaded cold months! You will never understand how much you're appreciated
I want to say thank you for making this video, I have had a few coffee plants over the years that I have been struggling to take care of and get to grow and thrive. It was impossible to find any good information on the Internet. You nailed every single thing that I was doing wrong. I adjusted things and now my plants are doing absolutely amazing. The time has come where I must bring the plants in because the temperature is dropping below 50° overnight. But one particular plant has grown over a foot this last summer and has filled out so much better. Thank you again, I will always be a lifetime subscriber and you will be my first ‘go to’ whenever I have any questions.
Awesome growing guide! Reminds me that during the summer a couple of friends and I visited a local coffee farm, la Hacienda San Pedro, in Jayuya, Puerto Rico. It was so amazing! And after we walked through fields of coffee plants, we went into their shop and had a barista make the local coffee. It was great!
I got a coffee plant a few months ago. I finally repot it after begging my mom. Stems went brown, 2 leaves went yellow, went droopy even if watered. Now it’s all good! I hope I can keep this thing alive to see it grow actual coffee beans. It was way too overdue for a report. The stems were covered in the bottom
Thanks for making this video! I actually bought a plant off amazon after watching this a few weeks ago then did a planting video when I got them in! Cheers
This is awesome! Thank you so much! My daughters gave me a little coffee plant in a coffee cup three years ago for Mother's Day. It is such a pretty plant. Somehow, I have managed to keep it alive for all this time, although it always drops leaves and always has one or two yellow leaves and it has barely grown. I CAN NOT wait to get started with all you your terrific information to see if I can get it healthy and growing. Thank you, thank you!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE! Great information for my future coffee plant. Now I know my banana plant needs more humidity in it's life.
THANK YOU!
Me: I should grow coffee
Video: It will take 4 years to grow
Me: NVM
If you start now you’ll be thankful 4 years from now
in 4 years i will enjoy good coffee while your still buying coffee
start from seedling, cuts a lot of time
🤣🤣🤣
yeah this video kinda makes me think twice about this process also... sounds like quite the wait here
Awesome video! I currently have over 30 coffee plants growing from different varieties that I started from fresh seeds about 9 months ago. Thanks for answering the browning of the leaf tips I've always wondered about this. Thanks for the tip!
I ordered your grab bag last year. I received a few coffee seeds. This was packed just for my husband. I can't wait to grow him some of his own coffee beans.
I appreciate all your time and effort put into this video! You’re the best!
Extremely informative! Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I just picked up 2 plants myself and would love to see them look like yours!
This is one of the pickiest plant i have ever tried to manage. Thank you for the video.
Just want to say that this year was the first year that I bought seeds off the internet and from 3 diffrent places. I also buy from stores and off Amazon. I cant tell you how much I love your seed packaging! I love that I can also youtube how to grow ciffee or dragonfruit and your videos pop up! Favorite part of your packaging, other than the pictures, lol. I LOVE that you add when they can be started inside!! You just made my day so much easier 💓
Amazing. I would of never thought coffee could be grown this far north. I am impressed. Great video with excellent information. Thank you.
I just got a small coffee plant and i also am growing some from seed as well. I just wanted to see which would do better. I got the starter from my local big box store. I picked the healthiest looking one. But my seeds came direct from Hawaii and they were fresh. They are finally starting to grow so i guess im doing it well so far. Thanks for all the info! Great video!
Thank you. I’m really grateful for you sharing your experience and knowledge sharing.
Wow! What a great TON of information! I have a three year old tree. It's a thousand wonders it has survived. Thanks to you maybe I can get it looking happy!
I just stumbled onto this video. My coffee plants are struggling, and now I know why. Awesome info. Thank you!
this is soo cool!, we already roast our own beans, I can't wait to try to grow our own too, thanks for this!
Great tutorial! Very informative! I believe that I'm going to give this a try. First a notebook though, so I have a hard copy of your tips! I'm sure I'll have questions down the road, but great job on your part. Thank You!
Amizing! Perfect video, you get straight to the facts without any filler stuff.
I love this video! Thank you Luke!
4 years? No wonder why coffee is expensive
not if you air layer
You should see how long it takes to get pecans.
3-5 years, must be grown at least 1200 meters above sea level to bring out the taste, it should be planted beside other plants to get their flavor (cacao for choco, sugarcane for more sweetness, tobacco for smokey, etc2)
Allen, that explains why people dont like coffee grown my the sea. it must taste fishy
the expense of an item is always in proportion to how much effort needs to be put into raising them and the life cycle they go through. wild raspberries for example are really easy to do, you could dig a plant up in the wild and take it home. But domestic ones require a lot of work and the thorns make it very hard for them to be machine picked. In fact all berries its really hard to automate picking them.
I love how you just encouraged me to drink water because you knew I’d be sitting here for a long growing guide 😂 Thanks, Luke!
Thank you that was an excellent and very informative detailed presentation! Kudos to you and thank you again and I wish you much success!
Such an informative video, Thank you so much for helping others succeed as this seems so worthwhile but not the easiest thing to do. I will rewatch and take notes
I started a few coffee plants and finally got three to make it and finally seeing some new grow thanks for the information really helpful
Nice video. I’ve had my tree for close 20 years now and have found a foliage spray of CaMag once or twice a month allows the tree to better absorb nitrogen and iron. A slightly acid soil helps as well.
This may be the most helpful video ever! Thanks for the info!
Love the working connection between geology/soil science and horticulture you explained, fascinating!
Great! clear, concise and informative. Thank you
Originally from Michigan so it's great seeing people in MI growing tropical stuff. I'm in SoCal now and have a potted Kona bush. I nearly killed it because i had on my patio where it got intense sun, i have since move it to a very shady spot in my yard where it stays out year around and it has made a great recovery, it has no issues with our winter night temps where it can get as low as 35-40 degrees for a few hours and then daytime rise back in the mid 60s.
Thank you that was awesome. I am looking forward to taking care of my coffee tree.
What an interesting video! Really enjoyed ur personal trial & error tutorial. Makes me want to try & grow one!
Just received my seeds, can't wait to start this adventure ☺️
I finally found out why the leaves edges are getting brown!! Love K7s!
Thanks for sharing :)
I got a 6" coffee tree when I was nine and it just started fruiting and i'm now 14. Hopefully if I employ some of these tips, it will start to grow faster. I don't have my tree in a 5 gallon pot though, the roots are coming out of the bottom but I don't want to hurt the fruit by reporting the tree, should I do it now or wait till fall?
now if the roots r coming out of the container
report the tree, it sounds like its causing harm
How is your coffee tree going 4 years later?
Bc you are ignoring a calling. This is what I'm going to do after the govt stops torturing me.
@@jennifercochran6398 Wut?
Aw dang! Got me wanting coffee plants and I don't even drink coffee. I'm gonna open my own coffee shop and make the customers pick their own beans. They can come back after it's all dried and processed for their drink. Ha!
there you go! i don't drink much coffee either, but it is a fun one to grow. You should have much better luck down by you!
628DirtRooster
Small world, bee man!
That would be a cool coffee shop... I heard that one plants harvest is only like 2 pounds of coffee.... But i just imagined going to a coffee shop and stepping out side where there's a shaded coffee field with rows of coffee growing. And just wasking through it smelling the sweet aroma. And tables and chairs between the trees where people can sit and read a book and listen to light music playing in the backgroundm
Where
@@joeroganofficial5433 it's more or less a thought of a type of coffee shop that would be cool to go to.
Love the information dense videos!
Any chance of a follow up video when you're able to harvest from this tree?
Thank you!! I just bought my first coffee plant and it's not looking very good after having it for a few weeks. Hopefully with your tips, I can bring this beauty back to life.
Wow that is a lot to know about :) Thank you so much for the info :) Thanks for sharing and Happy Thanksgiving :)
Wow, thats a lot to remember.. Diva coffee plant!!
Being quarantined during this global pandemic has me researching indoor gardening. I've never been able to keep a plant alive in my life. Thank you for helping people like me. AND IM A MICHIGANDER TOO!
Desperately need this info! Thank you ☺️
I live in florida and honestly i come back every few months and totally re watch this video. Recently with our scare of the hurricane i put all my potted plants from outside to an open garage that we have that the entrance is open and i ended up forgetting to take my coffee plant out after the hurricane and checking up on it my plant started to get crazy growth again. so i decided to leave it in the garage and my plant is doing way better. I think its because its been really hot outside here in Florida with temps in 95 but heat index in 110,109,107. But to say i really appreciate your work and this video because it has helped me a whole lot.
today sir, you have saved a life. the life of my coffee plant. was totally lost searching the internet for actual advice and this was great. thank you so much
Your advice has been priceless thank you so much
My son loves growing plants, more trees than anything else I am going to show him your video and see if he like to grow something like this . He loves a good challenge. Thanks for the video
sounds awesome! taking a interest in growing plants will be a skill usefull all his life! please support him in it and give him the potential to try as much as possible :)
Nice video. I bought seed and looking forward to trying this.
I really appreciate the effort you put to teach practically everything you know about plantation. Best regards from Lebanon :)
The energy you possess while telling this video. Its phenomenal. (Y)
Dude youre amazing thank you for this, had no idea about the volcanic rock additive!
Thank you!! I just got a coffee plant two days ago and it was already a little sick. Hoping these tips will bring it some life!!
did they?
You’re the best for freely sharing your years of experience 🤝
Awesome video man! Thanks so much for posting.
Thanks for the vid. I may give this a try. LOVE the GYG t-shirt. I've been known to show one off too.
Such a complete video! And that plant looks awesome :-D
WOW! I am in Australia and have a plant just like that with yellowing and dropping leaves. I think I saved my bacon, (scuze me) I meant my coffee, by watching this informative video! Thank you for sharing your experience. I have work to do tomorrow!!
Greg from South Florida. Great info. Used some of your tips right away. Hoping the iron and lava rock will give my plant a boost. Thanks again!
My daughter asked me how to grow coffee, she is concerned about her supply in these crazy times...I played this video. She first said, she knows high maintenence people that don't need this much care but then she also said, no wonder coffee is expensive.
Ilex vomitoria could be a good source for caffeine in a coffee crisis.
Awesome update thank you for sharing
I just got 2 Kona Coffee Plants that I have wanted for years and I am so excited to grow them and roast and drink my own Kona Coffee!
you are such a great guy luke someone takes one minute to write a question and you probably spend hours if not days finding the information. get up the good Work
Thank you for all your knowledge. :)
Love this video!Thanks!
I love the passion you have when you talk about your plant. Thank you for all the tips.
very intreated in this thank you so much for sharong
This is the best video about coffee plant I have ever seen 👍
Thanks for the info on growing coffee plants. I have a question, what percentage lava rock (powder) do you mix in the potting soil?
My question as well! Luke, help us! Lol :)
And how much of the lava rock and iron do you add?
One eternity later..
I'm wondering the same thing. How much lava rock? Also, how much of the fertilizers?
Two years later I was given your seeds and watching the video I also want to know please!
This is my next endeavor 💜 I'm looking forward to grow my own coffee plants 💜💜 thanks for the advice!!
Very interesting..Thank You
This reminds me of my visit to "las fincas " of a small village called Potrerillos in Honduras. Nothing like a fresh batch of coffee in the morning.
Thanks for the azomite tip, and this whole video!
Chelated iron. Pronounced with a K sound btw. Awesome vid, man.
listen I got a cluster of five coffe plants and I thined it out emiditly but I want to know if u feel like three pants to one pot is ok? also I have a pot that's way to big for my plants how importznt do u think that is lol love you dude. love the progression we all are proud
awesome video. I just received my seeds. ty
I thought growing coffee would be fun...then I watched this....I don't think I have enough experience to grow coffee anymore..I live in Wisconsin so it would be similar to how you grow it. But I might still try!! Saving this video!!
I'm here in Florida and I always envy your videos of your cool weather crops like cauliflower, broccoli etc because we pretty much have two months here to grow things like that and even then they need to be large starts to survive because we often go into the 80's even then! I guess there is balance in life because my coffee plant thrives on neglect in the shady part of the yard lol! Can't wait for it to fruit in probably a year. Glad to hear you finally had luck- such a fun plant to have! I agree with Thomas Taylor, would love to see if you've had experience on tea as I've killed every one I grow from seed :/
I would love to grow my own tea. It is very easy to grow but I would have to grow it indoors.
love ur channel!! thank u
I really appreciate you going over high and low temps should be. Those temps would only work dec/jan. In feb we were in 90s, mar in 100s. I need an air conditioner in my green house.
Thanks for all the time you take to produce these videos. I have been a big fan going into my second year. Quick question. When soaking my beans, I didn't get cherries unfortunately, they float. I know with most seeds floaters are not viable. What about coffee, I see videos with them sunk or floating and nobody seems to mention it.
thanks Luke another great video
Glad you liked it!
love your video. can you make a video on sugar apple. i try germination the sugar apple seed but it got molded. 😭
Have you been able to harvest yet Luke? G'day from Australia - I came across you channel and even though our climate is very different to yours where I am in Queensland the info is always, always useful!
Funny, I was just remarking to someone how much I would love to grow my own coffee cherries so I would always have coffee. I greatly prefer to make my coffee freshly ground from coffee beans for the best flavor which is why I wanted to have my own coffee plants. Thanks for this video
Wow, that’s awesome 👏. I’m in America. I’m definitely going to add this to my patio garden 🪴