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So the yellow berries are a different type/variety of coffee, or it's something that has crossed? Why yellow?
I've read there are many coffee trees to be found in the wilds, in and along gulches around the island.
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(Ooops! I answered something about four pages back so this is now out of context. I'd delete it but that doesn't seem to be an option.)
If you need a grinder for the white roast coffee, drop by and you can use my grainmaker grinder. It works on corn, wheat, popcorn and other hard stuff, it should manage white roast coffee as well. Guess I could try it with green coffee, wouldn't that be about as hard?
http://www.grainmaker.com/ You'd have to turn the handle yourself, though.
Coffee trees are a shrubby small tree. I keep mine pruned pretty short so I can reach all the berries. They seem to do best with a windbreak and they like chicken fertilizer since the trees which the hens like to nap under are much greener than the rest.
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Originally posted by asly
So the yellow berries are a different type/variety of coffee, or it's something that has crossed? Why yellow?
Aloha Ann~
New to Punatalk, but see there are no replies to your question. You may already know that these are likely yellow caturra (mutation of Bourbon) or yellow catuai (Mundo novo and Caturra hybrid) coffee trees. Larger beans on more compact trees with higher yields and more disease resistance (in the catuai at least).
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Originally posted by `Ihilani Coffee
[quote]Originally posted by asly
So the yellow berries are a different type/variety of coffee, or it's something that has crossed? Why yellow?
You may already know that these are likely yellow caturra (mutation of Bourbon) or yellow catuai (Mundo novo and Caturra hybrid) coffee trees.
PS: Mundo Novo is a hybrid between Bourbon and Typica, crossed in the 1940s.
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Little Bill, a friend is a coffee farmer so I get his excellent beans. Would like to get some green beans from him and try to roast myself. Would any popcorn popper work or specifically the brand you stated?
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is there somewhere to get coffee tree starts ( not sure the right word)- just want to try a few in lower hpp
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I have some seedlings (have no idea if that is the same as starts) email or reply below if interested
We have a couple of trees in downtown Keaau...& seedlings happen...
Coffee really likes cinder...so planting in a pile of cinder is the best, as long as they have a stable place for their roots to go down
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seedlings, because of the tap root are a good option over a plain ole cutting.
IF
you graft a cutting from a healthy fruiting tree onto the seedling.
if you do not (do the above) your plant may take years to fruit, or may never fruit.
Many nurseries sell trees taken from cuttings that have very little rooting established and do not grow as fast or healthy as a tree grown from the tap root.
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I find my seedlings and dig em out, a good place I know of is at the bottom of Laupahoehoe Point where the creek come into ocean, I hike up the creek a few hundred yards and there is alot of seedlings there...
I also have been discovering quite few young wild coffee plants all over my property, because there is an abandoned coffee farm across the road from me, the birds bring em over and poop 'em seeds
I rarely buy plants
PS in lower HPP you need to plant them under other trees or they will burn in sun IMO
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Hamakua coffee fr. HawaiianLavaJava.com tastes naturally chocolatey for chocoholics. Yum!
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