Anandamides and the Bliss Receptor

[Stonehenge]

Dendro, you're in the perfect climate for it. I'm trying to grow the cocoa plant but it's so sensitive. I have to bring it in if the temps are going to drop below 60f at night. Mine have already dropped a lot of leaves and I think I lost one or two. I'm pretty sure a couple will make it. Do you hand pollenate yours or do you leave it to nature?

I tried that non sugar chocolate and it tastes very good. That's the trouble, it always tastes like more though it doesn't give the sugar buzz. I noticed after eating a bunch that I felt like I had eaten chemicals. You know that feeling you get after eating food with msg or something like that in it? That's kind of the feeling I got.

[dendro]

Stoney, I just lave it to the birds and bees, and the fruits just appear. Actually, I was very surprised by the success and speed of cacao in our climate. I had read that cacao takes many years to establish, and that they had to grow a canopy amongst the small trees before they would bear well. But mine starting fruiting in two years, even when the small trees were separate and the young trunks still in the full sun.  Cacao should be a reasonably good container plant, I imagine, as mine don't seem to mind shallow soil, or excess moisture. Don't know how they handle being rootbound tho.