Growing coffee in Florida has always been look at a stint . I manage it against a south - facing rampart a niggling south of Gainesville , though only a undivided plant . I just get a comment from Alison Golwick sharing her succeeder near Tampa , onthis post from two years ago :
“ I am growing arabica coffee plants in Brandon Florida , a residential area just east of Tampa , Florida . It is geographical zone 9b , I hold up on a ridgepole with a svelte slope so engraft the coffee plants along a south face slope with an oak tree canopy . They get a piffling morning sun and some part shade during the day . I plant them two years ago and they are doing great . This year they produced their first fruit .
The fruit is still dark-green in November , so I am worried that it is getting too cold-blooded for it to fill out mature , as this take 37 weeks from flower to scarlet yield . The umber plants range from 3 - 5 feet and are beautifully exuberant shining green leaf – very healthy see . I will be giving them more TLC over these colder months with compost tea and some extra piss .
From the beginning I make up one’s mind to plant them as a concealment industrial plant along my attribute telephone circuit , so in the end if they did n’t give rise coffee beans they would still be a beautiful border plant . I in the first place ordered 18 plant – that is what is recommended for 2 cups of umber a day for a year , 18 plants can supply enough coffee for that . Later I added another 10 plants just to finish the prop argument and have extra coffee !
I sleep with my coffee plant and I am beaming they seem happy as well .
Oh another tip , when we had a bad frost , I used Tyvek menage wrap insulation teepeed’d over them in a long words to protect them from the frost . It worked great ! Tyvek does not let moisture in so it keeps the freeze out . Anyway , it protect the flora and it is easy to roll up and use again . Now that the plant are taller it will take more stuff , but it is cheaper thanother hoar protection options .
Anybody else in the Tampa area growing coffee ?
I am also produce a spate of other yield trees , like mango , bananas , papaya , soursop , cacao , adept apple , Rollinas , lime , pomelo , mulberry tree , pecans , pistachio , logon , jabotacaba , carbohydrate apple , sapodilla , atemoya , cheramoya , blueberries , cane dinero , lychee , Citrus paradisi , lemon yellow , avocado , pomegranate , peaches , kumquat , figs , tangelo , barbado cerise , miracle yield , and wild oranges . ”
If you are also growing coffee berry in Florida , allow me know . I would make love to share your story .
observe : I portion out some tips on coffee and tea grow in my short bookGrow Your Own Caffeine .
