How to Grow Coffee Tree Houseplants

Imagine waking up to pick your own coffee beans for your morning cup of coffee. Not unlike a good cup of coffee, growing the Coffee Tree takes time, patience and lots of tender love and care. While the tropical plant is mostly decorative, it is possible to grow your very own coffee beans on the houseplant. Read on to learn how.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Have patience. The most important thing to remember about growing a Coffee Tree is that it takes years to mature to a bean growing state.

2. Enjoy the dark shiny leaves of the Coffee plant. When taken care of properly, the tree grows fragrant white flowers.

3. Plant your Coffee Tree in a good potting soil. Keep the soil moist, but not over watered. Pot in an ordinary planter with good drainage is best.

4. Keep the plant in 60 to 70 degree F. temperatures day and night. Live in a warm climate; keep the Coffee Tree outside during summer months.

5. Fertilize your Coffee Tree every 2 weeks from March to October. Continue fertilizing monthly during the rest of the months. Use of an all-purpose fertilizer is fine.

6. Prune your tree if it gets too tall for your home. The Coffee Tree can grow 10 feet tall in a large pot. Reduce its size to the height you want by pinching it back or by cutting branches down near the base.

7. Pick coffee berries when they are dark red. Berries will not ripen if picked when green.

Tips & Warnings

• The Coffee Tree takes six years to mature enough to grow bean producing berries.

• Each Coffee Tree berry contains two coffee beans.

• Roast beans before grinding them to make coffee.

• If leaves turn yellow or fall off, the container your growing your Coffee Tree in is too small.

Resources

• Learn to grow houseplants.
• Find out everything about a Coffee Tree.