Date palm it is! Thanks everyone!
What is this thing? Found it growing at the bottom of one of my Hoya plants pots.
Edit: I potted the plant myself with store bought soil (fox farms ocean forest). I don't add any food or coffee grounds to my soil. I know it looks like a coffee bean but it seems weird that it would end up in store bought soil. The plant is 100% indoors.
by k_erin
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A coffee bean
Somebody probably used coffee grounds mixed in with the soil–it’s a common thing people use as fertilizer (though, be aware it makes the soil acidic, which not all plants like). They must’ve accidentally had a whole bean in their grounds. Unusual but easy to do with a blade grinder
Looks like a date seed. Do you throw your date pits into your pots? Could also be birds if there’s palms nearby. I don’t think it’s coffee
That’s a date seed.
The leaf and it’s striations are typical palm variety leaves
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Not sure what the seed is (really looks like a coffee bean to me but IDK what date seeds look like so…). As for how it got there, however, it could have been put there by rodents. They love stashing things in soil. I’ve had mice and even a full-ass squirrel bury nuts in my house plants, which I only discovered when I found one digging them out in the spring time
It is a palm seed. It probably got in to the Foxfarm soil blend either through being spread by birds (idk where you are located but they produce in a few locations that could have palms as landscape plants in the area) or it came from an ingredient in another product that they make. Palm oil production byproducts are sometimes used in soil or fertilizer blends I could definitely see how a viable seed could survive that process and end up sticking in a tractor bucket or another piece of equipment and evetually get mixed in to an otherwise sterile bag of soil.
ETA besides bagged soil Foxfarm also makes a wide variety of nutrients so it would not surprise me if there is some palm product going in to one of those.
That is a palm seed with a palm seedling growing from it, I’m assuming it’s a date palm, you can tell by the way it is sprouting and the plant itself is a big giveaway, this plant is obviously a palm and is a monocot and coffee beans grow on shrubs or small bushes and are dicots, so this isn’t a coffee bean
It’s a roasted coffee plant. Some people roast the bean before planting thinking they’ll save a step in the process, but the reality is that you can expect nature to give you a good roast. I works, but it’ll be lower quality. That’s why most people plant raw beans and roast them manually
That there is a freshly grown macaron. Most people don’t know they are actually farmed, not baked. This one is probably chocolate or dirt flavored. Give it a good rinse and let me know what flavor you’re growing.
I know someone that had one of those growing out of their ass.