Growing a coffee bush?

Nancyc

I live in Brisbane and would like to grow a coffee bush in a pot as a promotional idea,  has anybody got any advice for me ?

Koffee_Kosmo

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I live in Brisbane and would like to grow a coffee bush in a pot as a promotional idea,  has anybody got any advice for me ?

I have done it and so have a few others http://www.bestcafes.com.au/forum/off-topic/growing-coffee-trees/msg38982/?topicseen#msg38982 KK

Intense Coffee

Possum Problems: I was wondering if anyone had successfully dealt with having possums nick your coffee cherries off the trees. Do devices such as nets work, or do they just sneak underneath. ( I am assuming its possums, as not yet caught them in the act, but not enough mess to be bats I reckon, and hopefully not rats  :o ). It's the first year this has occurred, so will possibly have to pick some of them before they are ripe as I usually wait for them to get. They are actually great little pulpers, so there is a possible market there if I could just train them to leave the seeds (beans) in a neat pile on my doorstep rather than scatter all over and/or under the trees. (They do not eat the seeds like Civets apparently). I've now got a great number of new trees popping up under the more mature ones, but have already have about 20 odd sitting in pots looking for a spot to plant them. Any ideas or experience out there? Graham

QM0996

The Ring Tails like to pulp the nice plump dark red cherries... And yes, its is a pain picking up the greens on the ground LOL. The brush tails have decimated my  garden and 90% of all my vegies...  They also love Chilli plants but the only thing they have not devoured is the egg plant.  But they do keep coming back and trying the fruit.. Loose a few with bite marks... Under the regs if you trap them, you have to release within 10M as they are fiercely territorial and when released into anothers area - one will be killed or driven off...  And besides, as your area is now free another will move in... Now if one was in NZ there are some great killing traps that can be used.  And then you can use the bodies to condition the soil.  But alas I am not in NZ... ^Thus I can not say how I might be attempting to keep the numbers down, around here.

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Possum Problems: I was wondering if anyone had successfully dealt with having possums nick your coffee cherries off the trees. Do devices such as nets work, or do they just sneak underneath. ( I am assuming its possums, as not yet caught them in the act, but not enough mess to be bats I reckon, and hopefully not rats  :o ). It's the first year this has occurred, so will possibly have to pick some of them before they are ripe as I usually wait for them to get. They are actually great little pulpers, so there is a possible market there if I could just train them to leave the seeds (beans) in a neat pile on my doorstep rather than scatter all over and/or under the trees. (They do not eat the seeds like Civets apparently). I've now got a great number of new trees popping up under the more mature ones, but have already have about 20 odd sitting in pots looking for a spot to plant them. Any ideas or experience out there? Graham

Koffee_Kosmo

I have had many fruit trees - even lemons eaten by possums and bats You could consider a low voltage electric barrier fence KK

Lacehim

They don't like basil I heard.  Also I put netting from the reject shop over hoops and that stopped the buggers!

Intense Coffee

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Also I put netting from the reject shop over hoops and that stopped the buggers!

Thanks Lacehim, I think that's going to be the way I go, maybe too late for this year, but will be prepared for next year. Graham