Okay, well, I don't know a thing about
growing trees, but I've had a couple of coffee
plants for many years now.
In the early 90's I purchased 2 coffee
plants (saplings) from a catalog that were just a few inches tall. Since, they ended up taller than me.
I've never really taken great care of them, and often found them wilted from lack of water, but they always grew well outside in the warm weather where it was easier to take care of them.
I'm having a problem pruning -- new branches don't seem to grow after I snip off the dead or gangly ones. As a result, I have very little foliage on the bottom half of one of them. On the other, it's all on the bottom and I have a 4 foot (or so) bare stump of a trunk!
(See pics below)
These have never really produced more than a couple beans per year, but I got them for conversation, not really to make coffee.
My question is, how much/where can I safely cut these back, and when should I do it? The tall one is way too tall, and the shorter one is kinda ugly. lol
Any advice would be great, thanks!
Shorter plant: Bottom view of tall plant (left), shorter plant (right): Top view of tall plant: