Harvested some more coffee

I’ve left the coffee trees for a while, they didn’t appear to be ripening much and I was starting to worry that the unripened cherries were going to wither on the tree. Fortunately for me, that hasn’t happened. I credit a few brisk applications of Seasol (as suggested by J’s parents, thankyou!) over the last few weeks, so it’s clear to me that I really wasn’t taking proper care of the plants’ ongoing nutritional requirements. These coffee trees and the vanilla orchid are about the only fruiting plants which I seem to be able to keep going

Here’s what the larger plant looked like yesterday before C and I harvested the most ripe cherries:

The gross weight was about 1.3kg, and mostly filled this bucket:

After extracting the beans I was left with 725g, and after letting the beans soak overnight and removing the floaters this morning, I’m down to 700g.

I reckon there’s still another 500g of beans to harvest, so with any luck I’ll wind up with a bit over 1kg of homegrown coffee by the end of the month. I’m not sure how much that will cook down to in the roasting process, but it will be fun to see.