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- Can I pull a coffee plant myself?
- Where can I get seeds for a coffee plant?
- How do I draw a coffee plant from cuttings?
- The essentials in brief:
- Tips
A coffee plant is quite demanding
Can I pull a coffee plant myself?
An easy-care coffee plant can be drawn by itself. All you need is seeds or a clipping and a lot of patience. Because until your coffee plant shows the first flowers, it must be about five years old.
Next article How to Maintain Your Coffee Plant - Tips and TricksWhere can I get seeds for a coffee plant?
Of course, you can not sow your roasted coffee beans, you need raw coffee, fresh, ripe coffee cherries (that's what you call the fruits of the coffee plant) or seeds from the specialist trade. Green coffee, you may get from a small private roosting or on the Internet. Buy an old coffee sack and you might find some raw beans in it.
The cultivation of coffee is not that easy. The seeds should be as fresh as possible, with prolonged storage suffers the germination. Soak the seeds in warm water for a few hours before potting them individually in pots of potting soil. In a humid environment, such as a room greenhouse, they germinate after about four weeks.
How do I draw a coffee plant from cuttings?
To grow a coffee plant yourself you need so-called head cuttings. These are the shoot tips with a few leaves on them, no middle parts. Cut these cuttings best in spring. You can also use parts of the pruning for propagation.
For successful rooting, the cuttings need a uniform temperature of about 25 ° C. If your apartment is not warm enough for growing, then place the pots with the cuttings in a miniature greenhouse. Alternatively, pull a transparent foil over the pots. Both the earth and the air should remain evenly moist.
Regular airing of cuttings prevents mold from forming. Once the first roots have formed, then slowly adjust the plantlets to room temperature. The further attitude does not differ from the attitude of adult plants.
The essentials in brief:
Tips
For a slightly faster result, you should pull coffee plants from cuttings, you have a lot of patience and time, then try once the sowing.