Starting coffee from green beans

[HIfarm]

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]

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.

[Pandan]

Boy do I have a video for you

https://youtu.be/f_P3k9BG6MI

This channel has others on the topic as well iirc.

[Kalopa Guy]

Coffee is stupidly easy to grow from seed, you are better off buying fresh parchment, no way of knowing how old green coffee is. Just like any large seeded plant the viability decreases pretty rapidly. The birds eat the skin off the cherry on mine and the seeds fall and grow like weeds.