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Date: 3 Aug 2025

Coffee, Straight from Your Windowsill

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Coffee Crew at Work: Harvest, Grind, Brew

Let's be honest - coffee prices are climbing, supplies are tightening, and that morning cup isn't getting any cheaper. But right now, our Coffea arabica trees are covered in green berries, quietly ripening toward harvest time. Soon, they'll turn red - and that's when it's go time.

This isn't just a pretty plant. It's a compact, shade-loving fruit tree that thrives indoors and adds year-round tropical beauty to any space. Even your cat will approve 🐱🐾.

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Date: 4 Jan 2026

Dont drink your coffee until you see this!

Coffea arabica - Coffee tree, fruit

☕️ Don't drink your coffee until you see this!

  • Our coffee trees, Coffea arabica, are growing in 7-gallon pots, and after months of waiting, the cherries are fully ripe!
  • They bloomed in May, set fruit in August, and now in winter the fruit has turned red and ready to harvest.
  • Coffee is one of the easiest fruiting plants you can grow at home. It does well in containers, loves shade, and can be grown indoors or outdoors in warm climates. With regular watering and a little patience, you can grow, harvest, roast, and brew your own coffee right from your home garden.
  • We are harvesting now, and the next video will show the full roasting process step by step.

  • 👉 Coming up next: Roasting video coming soon - stay with us!


🛒 Start your own coffee harvest

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Plant Facts

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  • Date: 5 Jan 2022

    Wake up to the smell of Coffee...
    New Video:
    Grow your own Coffee plant - Free Coffee Everyday!

    In this video we talk about growing Coffee easily in your own yard. Coffee is the best gift plant and perfect house plant or container fruit tree. The white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers are clustered and resemble gardenias to which they are related. The whole fruit is edible, it is a small fleshy berry changing in color from green to yellow to red. The seeds are the actual "coffee beans" as they called, they can easily be dried, roasted and ground at home. The most common coffee is Coffea arabica; other varieties include Coffea catura - Dwarf Coffee Nanico and Coffea Kona - Hawaiian Coffee Tree Mauna Loa.

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    Date: 10 Jan 2017

    New Video: Coffee plant

    Top Tropicals Showcase: Coffee plant.

    Check out this video: Top Tropicals Showcase: Coffee plant

    Most people drink coffee every day but not all of them realize where this delicious drink comes from. It comes from a Coffee tree!
    Coffee is the best gift plant and perfect container fruit tree. It grows into a beautiful dark green shrub or small tree. Coffee tree prefers filtered light which makes this plant a perfect house plant.
    The white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers are clustered and resemble gardenias to which they are related. The whole fruit is edible, it is a small fleshy berry changing in color from green to yellow to red. The seeds are the actual "coffee beans" as they called, and can easily be dried, roasted and ground at home. The most common coffee is Coffea arabica; related species are Coffea robusta (Robusta Coffee) and Coffea liberica (Liberian Coffee).

    Get a Coffee tree and it will keep you happy with the favorite beverage at all times!
    Enjoy this video and your morning coffee.



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    Date: 15 Mar 2019

    Save Coffee from extinct!

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    The most popular kind of coffee for commercial production, Coffea arabica, is already on the endangered species list. According to research, Coffea arabica plant could become extinct in as little as 60 years.

    Coffee requires a forest habitat for its survival. With so much deforestation going on around the world, wild coffee species are being impacted at an alarming rate. Coffee plants grow in very specific natural habitats, so rising temperatures and increased rainfall brought by climate change can make coffee impossible to grow in places the plants once thrived.

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    To reserve a cup of coffee for yourself and your children, plant the Coffee tree now!

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