I am an avid coffee drinker and often buy my seeds from stores and make my own coffee at home (go figure! haha) and usually dispose of the spent grounds in a plant because overtime it turns into dirt. I have heard there are minerals and stuff like that in there for plants and was wondering if that is applicable for my type of plants?

So if I added coffee grounds to my plants, would it help the plant? Anybody with some 'expert' opinions on this; or any opinions at all haha?

I do not necessarily just want to go out on a limb and try it but I am curious.

Thanks

I throw mine into the worm farm,sprinkled not clumped as it goes mouldy,remember,feed the soil not the plant.

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Coffee grounds can be used but only after its been compsted. Remember not to add to much as it is fairly acidic.

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Amp803..... Coffee grounds are great composted or vermicomposted (worms love them also). I would not use them straight. They do contain some NPK value, around 2-1-1, but are very acidic. Direct topdressing will promote acidic bacteria & fungi growth. OK in the compost pile, not in your pot.
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my northern master K (kush-kush) is coffee kush! I mean coffffeeeee!!!! one of my all time fav's. I drink turkish tar, and my compost pile gets 365 filters of coffee snob coffee a year. it also gets loads of green tea, and some(could use a lot more) mexican cureall tea( fresh ginger,garlic, limes,and cinnamon). I have this pseudo-quasi-snakeoil theory that you can affect the terpene profiles of plants with compost ingredients...I'm thinking more citrus peels! I already have bushels of apples in the pile(under apple tree), so I'm covered on the fructose.I just need those sharp citrus terps....maybe in the future I'll try pressed grapes. one thing's for sure: my aftersmoke smells SOO damn sweet, I should sell it to glade! (you don't get that from hydro/chem- so called 'chronic'!)

oh yeah! and my worms are more productive! they zip around like some kind of peugeot steelhead on seattle's best drainage!

I got a plastic cottage cheese bucket from Sams which I throw my daily coffee grounds into. About every few days, I walk up to the garden and just throw the bucket into the soil..(not where the plants are growing). I just figure it will help aerorate the soil. I use tea leaves too.

My cannabis plants I start in my garden before guerrilla gardening them in the fields. So they get coffee grounds mixed into their soil too.

I did a bit of research on this thought (a quick google search or two), which yielded some info on the uses of coffee grounds. From what I understand, adding the grounds to the soil is a plus because coffee grounds have nitrogen in them and, after they have been used to brew coffee, they are fairly neutral on the pH. Around 6.9 I think was the average estimate. Could anyone explain to me how this is bad? I am fairly new to the growing scene and have little experience but it seems to me that it would be beneficial. I could easily be wrong.

Here is where I found this info:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2128557_use-...ds-garden.html
http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/compost.asp