Spring into action - everything in bloom - Victoria B.C.

Spring into action - everything in bloom - Victoria B.C. · Saturday April 18, 2009 by colin newell

Sex. It’s in the air apparently. My main coffee plant, that bloomed and bore fruit over Christmas is at it again… in full bloom. Click on the photo below

I asked Coffee expert Joachim Oster of Blue Horse Kona in Hawaii – what the heck was up with all this propagation?

His reply… “The coffee plant is asexual. It can, pretty much, get it on whenever it feels like – especially if you provide a suitably sexy environment for it; you know, light and food and a little companionship.”

It has all of that. I even talk to it from time to time, scratching its leaves uttering… “You are a good coffee plant! Yes you are! Yes you are!

You get the idea.

That is a lovely photo and I promise not to tell everyone that you regularly stroke that plant’s ego.

— Cheryl Apr 18, 10:50 pm #
Thanks! Canon EOS-30D. 55mm macro lens – F 2.5
Natural window light.

— Colin Apr 18, 11:07 pm #
where did you get your coffee plant? I am interested in growing some beans and was wondering if there is somewhere in victoria to purchase coffee bean plants.

— Katie Sep 15, 10:21 am #
I have a bag of high quality coffee beans if you want to grow your own – there are quite a few garden centers that feature coffee plants from time to time – I found the most hardy ones are the more mature plants that I have rescued or grown myself.

I have as many viable seeds as you need.

— Colin Sep 15, 11:02 am #