Cacao Growing and Chocolate Production in Hawaii

[fruitlovers]

News story about chocolate making and cacao growing on Oahu:
http://news.yahoo.com/video/hawaii-chocolate-operation-growing-060541398.html
This news story fails to mention that Big Island has had cacao growing and processing for many years. This place bills itself as the smallest chocolate factory in the world, and it has nice tours, if you're ever in Kona:
http://www.ohcf.us/

[KarenRei]

Cacao is such a lovely tree.  The new leaves that come in are so paper-thin they're translucent, just so delicate, but then grow super rapidly to large size before firming up.  It's kind of like watching a banana plant grow, where you can easily see the difference in growth from day to day.  I just potted mine up from a 3 gallon to a 7 gallon; hope it likes the extra space.