Coffea arabica T8
small tropical plant in an 8cm pot, ideal for rainforest terrariums
With Coffea arabica, you bring a piece of tropical flair and the origin of your morning coffee directly to your home! The real coffee plant delights with its shiny, dark green leaves, its dense growth, and – with a bit of luck – fragrant white flowers and decorative coffee cherries. A true highlight for plant lovers and coffee fans!
Characteristics:
Coffea arabica forms compact bushes with elliptical, shiny, dark green leaves and delicate leaf veins. Under good conditions, it produces fragrant, star-shaped white flowers, followed by small green coffee cherries that later ripen to red. The plant is particularly decorative as a houseplant and is well-suited for bright indoor spaces.
Care Instructions:
Light: Bright, but no direct midday sun – ideal at east or west-facing windows
Water: Keep evenly moist – avoid waterlogging, prefers low-calcium water
Humidity: High – benefits from daily misting or being grouped with other plants
Fertilizer: In spring and summer, 1-2 times a month with a diluted green plant fertilizer
Temperature: Optimal at 18-24 °C, not below 15 °C
Note: Does not tolerate drafts or dry heating air. The plant grows relatively slowly but is very long-lived with proper care. Also ideal for bright bathrooms or conservatories.
Whether as a gift idea for coffee lovers or as a stylish exotic in your own home – Coffea arabica is a real eye-catcher with a story!
Our greenhouses are equipped with modern energy screens and double glazing to efficiently save on heating costs. Additionally, we collect rainwater over the entire roof area of 9,000 square meters and use only this water to irrigate all our crops. We collect the rainwater in underground tanks with a total volume of 600,000 liters.
Since 2007, we have been heating our entire operation with a fully automated 850 kW wood chip heating system and a 100,000-liter buffer storage tank. Environmentally friendly and CO2-neutral. Only to support during very cold winter days and nights is a conventional oil heating system available.
Since 2014, the heating has been supported by a solar thermal system with an annual yield of about 20 megawatt-hours.
In 2020, we installed a photovoltaic system with 30 kW peak and have been producing more green electricity per year than our entire operation requires.
Since 2021, we use exclusively pots for our self-produced plants that are not only 100% recyclable but are also entirely made from recycled pots. To this end, we collect all used pots that arise in our operation and have them picked up in big bags by our pot supplier Göttinger. There, the pots are cleaned and processed in a water-free recycling facility into new pots that come back to us.