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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Chocolate trees
« on: July 29, 2012, 09:28:31 PM »
Im located in Savannah GA.
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cacaoguy,
what zone are u? where u at?
what u gonna do with all the cacao trees??
I plant to grow some for the challenge and to eat the scant pulp of the pods! maybe I will try to do something with seeds...not sure.
just curious!
thanks!
It drains fast but the sphagnum moss retains moisture. Do you think distilled water would work? or natural spring water?
Distilled or spring water should be fine. If you have too much sp. moss the mix could get too acid very fast as sp. moss is very low pH, i think around 4, and cacao likes pH around 6.
of course cacaoguy ,, sorry for any inconvenience ,, seeds when dried or processed become available to make chocolate drinks ,, and i dnt knw jim west yet ,, i am waiting for soren to say his experience ,,
Hey soren ,,
Have you dealed with jim west before ,, as his seeds are very cheap and he is selling in 100 seeds packets ,, its like having a nursery ,, lool ,,
Cacaguy ,,, of course his seeds are growable ,, otherwise why would he sell them ,, lol ,, am kidding ,, his seeds are of very high quality having a germination rate of nearly 100% ,, and they usually come in a nice shape although it stays long time in transit between Hawaii and Egypt.
Taking in consideration that cacao seeds are hard to germinate and they never germinated with me as for the humidity required or else.
Amr
Completely agree to that, I love the pulp! Some of the other species should have more plup; Oscar I am not sure which species you have for sale, but otherwise I can recommend Jim West who has several rare species.
The only other theobroma species i have for sale besides cacao is Theobroma bicolor, Pataxte, in english confusingly called white cacao or Peruvian cacao. Pulp on that tastes totally different, more like a chempadek. Jim West is coming to visit me here in a few months so will try to get him to bring me some other species of theobromas. He brought me some before but i blew it and the plants didn't get established.
I think Montoso Gardens in PR sells them sometimes.
I have Red, Green and Yellow seedlings. One of which fruited for the first time a couple of years ago (here in the sub-tropics) only to be frozen in our brutal winter that and the following year. The tree lost major limbs but has recovered but has not bloomed since.
Harry