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HIfarm

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Starting coffee from green beans
« on: November 08, 2018, 06:31:56 PM »
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

Rex Begonias

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Re: Starting coffee from green beans
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2022, 01:05:42 PM »
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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Re: Starting coffee from green beans
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2022, 11:30:01 AM »
Boy do I have a video for you

https://youtu.be/f_P3k9BG6MI

This channel has others on the topic as well iirc.