A few years ago (3 or maybe 4, I think), my girlfriend bought me a packet of coffee seeds. I planted them and one of them, from ten or so, germinated. About three years later, this fine Arabica houseplant stands at something like 1.5m tall and is in a pot about 30cm diameter. Actually, I don't know if it qualifies as "fine", I've nothing to compare it against! We did get up close and personal with some coffee bushes when visiting the Eden Project in Cornwall last year and my plant also exhibits some of the brown-edged and yellowing leaves that theirs had.
I was wondering if anyone else had experience of successfully growing a coffee plant/bush/tree as a houseplant and if you might have any hints or suggestions to offer?
I'm not too worried about getting a huge crop of beans from it (though it'd be really quite nice to say I'd grown, dried, roasted, ground and brewed a cup entirely myself! )... but I was wondering if there's much realistic chance of ever seeing any beans from it...?
Cheers,
Anthony