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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Online Library => Topic started by: HIfarm on November 08, 2018, 06:31:56 PM
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I noticed a posting about "rare" coffee seed being available. I don't know if it is general knowledge but coffee can be germinated from fresh green coffee beans so you can then have access to truly topshelf varieties like gesha and others. I have not yet tried this (I am waiting to develop some "overstory" first) so I cannot comment on the germination rate. If you search on line, there are many articles on it, here is one:
http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/homegrowing.htm (http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/homegrowing.htm)
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Have you had chance to try this since?
Was looking into attempting same. Wanted to try growing liberica & robusta for fun.
I don’t intend to get much out of it, but cool to have em goin/growin.
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Boy do I have a video for you
https://youtu.be/f_P3k9BG6MI
This channel has others on the topic as well iirc.