Thought it may jolt growth a little. Been thinking about giving my trees some coffee here and there. What do you guys think.

I use coffee grounds but never thought about dumping the coffee in.

I put coffee grinds in a plant once and it got moldy..???  So I don't know where I went wrong..???   Have been saving my grinds though.

I would experiment and write on a calendar what you have been doing.  Maybe a little coffee is good, Maybe a lot is good. We are all learning new things weekly. I put worms in my pots to help.  Don't know if to many worms are bad.  You learn by trial and error.

id think itd have an effect on the pH as well as add some nutrient, im curious to know though

According to Science Daily, brewed coffee grounds typically possess a pH level that measures between 6.5 and 6.8.

The coffee itself is about PH 5 so I would not pour that on figs.  The grounds are about neutral as Martin pointed out and would be fine.  

OK only if you are growing Raspberry Latte variety

You feed your coffee grounds and non-meat kitchen scraps to your worms, they turn it into excellent plant food and you give that to your figs.....

Too acidic for figs, wouldn't recommend that, however, if you mulch the coffee grounds the ph will come closer to neutral and you should be fine.

In an office building where my friend works some ladies were dumping their coffee in a plant because the one said that coffee is good for plants. After a month or so something started to smell until it got to the point where the odor became unbearable. She said that the plant, pot and soil was eventually pitched. The coffee was decomposing causing the odor. It's probably best kept in the compost pile until it's done decomposing.

Make sure the coffee is plain with no sugar or milk added. I pour my cold black coffee in my pots sometimes.

I got some free Starbucks coffee grounds just last week and steeped the grounds on 5-7 of my trees.  They're still kicking!

I put the coffee grounds in a compost pile and when it is ready, it goes on top of the pots. No problem with mold as you mentioned and the nutrients are ready to be consumed in the best possible form. I add all my kitchen scraps, leaves, grass to that pile too. The plants are very happy!

I compost all my coffee grounds and accumulate the left over coffee in a large jar. When the jar is full I pour it on the compost pile. It's water I've already paid for, why pour it down the drain?

my neighbor drinks alot of espresso and uses the grind as compost -His plants look especially green .

Not hot coffee.

Rodney and Fellow Members, I pour a little coffee once in awhile to see if it helps....it seems to help...???  Anyway I also am careful with the water in our city there is a lot of flouride put into the drinking water at times.......I feel flouride is like a bleach and use sparingly also you can have the flourided water sit over night to vaporize....Good Luck!!!

Very information, thanks.

Best,
Tam

NO!..

Coffee (liquid) is for drinking...
Coffee Grounds sprinkled (salted) around plants is for ant control (collapses ant colonies).
Coffee Grounds in bulk is added to the compost pile.

Good luck with giving your plants a drink of coffee : )


<edit> Coffee Grounds as ant deterrent was posted by a member last year, I tried it and it does work. It has to be started in spring and continued weekly. If you do a Google search you will get lots of info. It works on the ants that I have here in New York. I don't know if it works on Fire ants or any other specific species. The area where my potted trees are located and the area under in ground trees are salted regularly, with no visible ants for the entire season.

a Google search result... Coffee Grounds fire ants

Yeap. Agree with Pete. The coffee grounds go into a compost pile

I have never heard of coffee grounds as ant control.  What's that about?

Yes i want to know more about coffee grounds as ant control....all ants, fire ants... do tell!!

Ant Control: I was reading 1001 Garden Secrets....its an old publication from the 80's.......it says to use uncooked grits (country food), the Ants swell up and burst when they drink any water.....