Coffea arabica - Coffee Cherries ripening

Do you harvest them?

Meanie:

I don't roast the beans (which are the seeds). I do eat the cherries (fruit) though...most of the time they're very sweet. Many of the fruit will fall to the ground and germinate...it happens every year.

Fantastic. So different

Does that mean you wake up and smell the coffee before you even make the coffee ?....LOL ...

Cinderella:

Thanks! It's not different. This is the true coffee tree...the coffee cherries produce the coffee seeds which when roasted make coffee. : > )

Very interesting, thanks for that. Is it a very large tree or a bush,

Palmate:

I don't drink coffee...however, I think one year I will roast some of my coffee beans (seeds) and make a cup.

By the way the cherries don't taste anything like coffee...they're sweet tasting almost just like a sweet cherry (Prunus avium hybrids)

Very interesting D. not what I thought coffee beans looked like at all !

Amy:

These are not coffee beans. They're coffee cherries. The "coffee beans" are the seeds which are roasted. There's usually two seeds in one coffee cherry.

Ah Now I'm with you D. what I really meant was I didn't know Coffee beans grew inside a cherry ,they serve raw coffee beans in restaurants as a side treat with deserts sometimes with a chocolate covering , quite nice like that :o))

The coffee seeds have to be treated and roasted to become a "coffee bean". The coffee beans you see in deserts and which are ground for a cup of coffee do come from the coffee cherries. Many people who don't live where they can grow outside are usually surprised how they grow.

My tree coffee used to be so productive. I loved when it bloomed with thousands of small flowers.

Here's a photo of my tree in bloom with lots of ripe fruit.
The leaves get brown-tipping from the horrible, hard water here in San Diego, CA.

http://www.growsonyou.com/photo/slideshow/174306-coffea-arabica-coffee-tree-flowers-and-fruit

Thanks D. we learn something every day on GOY ! the flowers looks so pretty it must take ages to remove all the old berries it's a shame about the hard water ,we have very hard water in this area i'm forever descaling the kettle it's tough on the washing machines etc..

Yes, I have learned a lot on GoY...and I knew a lot about plants (because I studied horticulture and botany) before GoY. :>)

I know about hard water much too well. It's horrible for everything, plants including. You most likely have an advantage over us in San Diego...you probably receive 5 or 6 times our average rainfall. The climate here in very dry with so little rain during the wet or rainy season. We only had about 6 in (15cm) of rain this past season. We haven't had any rain since the beginning of April and most likely won't see any rain until late Nov or the beginning of December.

Lots there is nt there interesting they taste sweet the coffee cherries.

Yes, coffee cherries are a fruit. It does taste like a cherry, also. :>))

I love cherries they say 5 cherries equals one asprin good for the heart.

That's very interesting. I never heard that before. :>))

I heard it on the radio most foods are good for different parts of our bodies Carrots for eyes walnuts for the brain mango for the lungs grapes for breast bananas for the heart must have a bit of green in not dark soots they then turn to sugar prunes and pears make you go to the toilet Arrowroot biscuits are good to bind you if you have the runs toilet wise cabbage is good to stop cellulite beetroot is good for the blood porriage oats and weetabix lowers blood pressure lemon and a tiny bit if baking soda drink for cancers violet leaves for cancers and mangos.

Wow! That was very informative! Thanks! :>))

Your welcome we had a page on here a few years ago most chipped in on what foods do good for parts of our body I recall Derekm contributed lots to it.