Coffee In the old yard. + Coffee Farm in California VID.

[dwfl]

How are the taste of the berries ?
ive bought the juice before and loved it.

I am in zone 9 -New Orleans
we get a bit of frost here and there.

i ordered a 1gal coffee plant while i was ordering other stuff
it was fairly cheap, and i wanted to see how it does.

I was thinking in planting it near the house on the East face, where it will get about 2 hours
of morning sun. I can put it a foot away from the bricks in order to get frost protection.
I also have room for it there. no room on the South face.

Will it fruit ?
and since i dont see myself trying to save the seed to roast
can i eat the whole berry raw , or just the flesh ?

You could eat the berries raw but there really isnt much to them. Pretty much all skin and seed. They have a sort of sweet pepper taste.

[Guayaba]

How are the taste of the berries ?
ive bought the juice before and loved it.

I am in zone 9 -New Orleans
we get a bit of frost here and there.

i ordered a 1gal coffee plant while i was ordering other stuff
it was fairly cheap, and i wanted to see how it does.

I was thinking in planting it near the house on the East face, where it will get about 2 hours
of morning sun. I can put it a foot away from the bricks in order to get frost protection.
I also have room for it there. no room on the South face.

Will it fruit ?
and since i dont see myself trying to save the seed to roast
can i eat the whole berry raw , or just the flesh ?

You could try it as an experiment and see how it goes.  There are some old coffee plants at the L.A. arboretum and in the past that area was listed as a 9b, so they saw their share of frost.  You may want to cover the plants with frost fabric if it gets near freezing.  Even if the plants survive, they often look a little beaten up by the end of winter if there is a frost.

[bbudd]

A lot of the older coffee plantings are under a dense forest canopy
The newer plantations usually grow macadamia trees as cover for coffee plants
Mine are growing under tree cover quite well
Berrys are eddible when red-not a lot of flavor tho
Sure its a little work-harvest berrys-clean-sun dry-roast
But sure is good coffee-and FREE
Planning on doubling my production this year-easy given all the sprouted seedlings

[spaugh]

My neighbor in 9B in east county has lots of coffee, bananas, and moringa growing no problem.

[Domnik]

Stan, I read your post and another posts from this subject. I cultivate coffee tree at home (and sometimes in garden when weather is hot) many years. I think you have a very favorable microclimate. Probably you live close to the ocean that acts as a heater with thermostat. Talking about frost/cofea - coffee (any variety), of course, it does not tolerate frost that lasts many hours. It will kill this species for 100%

I checked a couple of times as well as behaving coffee tree after a night in temperatures below + 6 / + 8 degrees Celsius. After the first night lasted about 10-12 hours when the plant is in a temperature range of +1 to +5 Celsius there are damaged leaves. Second night the tree usually do not survive. The survival of the whole, long cold nights (even if it was only -1 degrees Celsius is not an option).

Probably your plant was exposed to the cold for a very short time. There are situations when suddenly (for short time) temperature drops from +5 the to -1 C. Probably 15 or 20 minutes small frost will not damage her, but that does not mean that it is resistant to frost. Anyway, what can I say, if your plant is really resistant to prolonged frost you through  be or you already are millionaire;) Regards. Dominik