soidog2 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 We are making progress, the cacao (theobroma cacao) trees are flowering for the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapout Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 soidog, hope you will keep us abreast of how the bloom and subsquent pod development goes. Great photo, keep them coming as the chance of your being successful looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetauser Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 HI Guys, I am also trying to get some Cocoa for my garden. Had a reply from Montoso gardens to say that they have pods available just now but have never sent pods to Thailand before,so at the moment I am in the process of checking if I can import into the country, and post pictures of my own trees. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetauser Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Success! have Cocao trees growing in my garden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soidog2 Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 (edited) You will need this when they start flowering. What province are you in ? For me, the pollinating midges are AOL; hand pollination is akin to brain surgery. Have fun ! Sexual Reproduction of Cacao.pdf Edited July 12, 2012 by soidog2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetauser Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Hi soidog2, Thanks for the reproduction file, I take it no flowers and wine needed with this method. I am in Jomtien,just south of Pattaya ,Chonburi. the seedlings in the photo actually came from a lady in Bangkok,and I am informed are from Choomporn originally . I also have some seed from Montoso gardens pods,just sprouting and ready for planting very soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeonjake Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 it might be a bit late,im due back into thailand end sept, i know there is a man,thai in our village that has about 2 rai of cocoa growing, i saw it last year becouse hes a family freind, leave it with me and ill have a word with him when i get back, about seed or even cuttings, jake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soidog2 Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 it might be a bit late,im due back into thailand end sept, i know there is a man,thai in our village that has about 2 rai of cocoa growing, i saw it last year becouse hes a family freind, leave it with me and ill have a word with him when i get back, about seed or even cuttings, jake Interesting, please ask him how he gets his trees pollinated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeonjake Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 i will do mate as soon as i get back, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvs Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 We have some young trees growing in a pot,located near Cha -am,if anyone interested we have some extra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BkruaiRetiree Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Hello, JVS. I'd really love to buy 2 or 3 of your cacao trees, if you still have them. I've been trying to find some for well over a year now. Where exactly is Cha-am? We're located in Bang Kruai - about halfway between Bangkok and Nonthaburi. Hope to "hear" from you soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenkKorat Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 I am realy thrilled about what I read about growing cacao in Thailand. I was searching for knowledge about this for quite some time. Could somebody tell me more about the growing conditions like what kind of soil, what kind of vertilizer, what kind of sun/shadow, waterconditions, what to do during the growth and the like. I would be very much obliged. By the way, I am Dutch and live half a year every year in Khorat and I have understood that the climat in Nakhon Ratchasima is ready for cacao. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soidog2 Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Original habitat is hot & humid with trees growing under high jungle canopy. The pollinating midges need a wet environment to lay eggs, (small puddles among bottom leaf litter) Other than a healthy soil and avoiding full sun you do not need to worry, they will grow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maidu Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 any more tips or sources for getting some baby cocoa trees - it's all appreciated. Am in Chiang Rai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf5370 Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 I know this is an old thread (from 2006 on) but I just heard on the British Radio (via internet) that by 2020 we will have exhausted the cocoa on the planet - this is due to cutting of crops and replacing with rubber etc which have been more profitable. As we know coca grows in Thailand after a fashion, could be quite the cash crop in 6 or 7 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loong Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 I know this is an old thread (from 2006 on) but I just heard on the British Radio (via internet) that by 2020 we will have exhausted the cocoa on the planet - this is due to cutting of crops and replacing with rubber etc which have been more profitable. As we know coca grows in Thailand after a fashion, could be quite the cash crop in 6 or 7 years! Cocoa will not be exhausted, but it may reach a stage that there is not enough supply to satisfy demand and price will rise. When that happens, the farmers that have changed to rubber and now seeing rubber prices drop before they can get their first harvest will be changing back to cocoa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuijimmy Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 There is what I think is an abandoned cocoa farm on Samui, (not well looked after) perhaps they had an idea some years ago, it would be a good idea to grow cocoa? lots of "wind falls" laying around... A neighbour a couple of years ago, planted some seed... and has two plants about one meter high! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacaonut Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 We are making progress, the cacao (theobroma cacao) trees are flowering for the first time. Hiya, Wondering how your trees are doing now? How many did you plant and have you been able to harvest? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soidog2 Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 We are making progress, the cacao (theobroma cacao) trees are flowering for the first time. Hiya, Wondering how your trees are doing now? How many did you plant and have you been able to harvest? Cheers Thanks for asking; they rather enjoyed the long rainy season. I have 5 trees, two are larger and for the first time started producing pods. (picture for you) Best regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuijimmy Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Here are some I just saw the other day in same orchard as previous post.... on Samui Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riceyummm Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 I know this is an old thread (from 2006 on) but I just heard on the British Radio (via internet) that by 2020 we will have exhausted the cocoa on the planet - this is due to cutting of crops and replacing with rubber etc which have been more profitable. As we know coca grows in Thailand after a fashion, could be quite the cash crop in 6 or 7 years! Cocoa will not be exhausted, but it may reach a stage that there is not enough supply to satisfy demand and price will rise. When that happens, the farmers that have changed to rubber and now seeing rubber prices drop before they can get their first harvest will be changing back to cocoa Yes Loong, that's the way it works here (Here! Hah! I keep forgetting that I'm in New Jersey caring for my ancient mother. My heart's in Thailand), but I see opportunity in that scenario too. In the California and Yukon gold rushes the people who cleaned up were those who sold pans and shovels and flour and coffee to the miners. I have never heard of a single miner who got out of there with a fortune (Probably were but I never read of one). Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker did right well selling supplies and later building the trans continental railway (with the addition on Collis P Huntington to complete the Big Four) though. Now I see in my village that the suppliers for and builders of cricket farms are cleaning up. Crickets farms everywhere! If cacao is a viable and profitable crop anyone with an established farm will be in a great position to become a supplier of everything a hopeful cacao farmer could want and would pay Big Baht for. It seems to be universal.......middlemen get the mine, farmers get the shaft! If there is a flaw in this idea please point it out to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teletiger Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 A piece of land my wife recently purchased has a small coffee garden on it. About 50 trees, which I want to expand. I'm thinking some cocoa trees will compliment it nicely. Moccachinno! Anybody know there I can get cocoa trees, or seeds, in Chiang Mai? Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuijimmy Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 My neighbour much to my surprise had two Cocoa tree plants which she planted seed two years ago... This one made it to my garden a few days ago, I had root pruned about 6 weeks ago... it dug up with a good root ball! About 5 feet or five brick blocks high... I am not sure how long before I'll be able to make my own chocolate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soidog2 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 More progress, lots of fruit setting; looks like next year I can try my hand at making Chocolate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soidog2 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Probably most of the original participants are gone but, here it is; the first ripening pod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuijimmy Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Probably most of the original participants are gone but, here it is; the first ripening pod! yep looks almost ripe... take a taste when it is .... but be close to the toilet, it works like Ex-lax.... Look forward to seeing Soidog Chocolates on the store shelves soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosha Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 1 Fact is Ghanaians are leaving Cocoa for Rubber, Is it an option fir Southern farmers to switch over and make money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soidog2 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 yep looks almost ripe... take a taste when it is .... but be close to the toilet, it works like Ex-lax.... Look forward to seeing Soidog Chocolates on the store shelves soon! I am studying now ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuijimmy Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 yep looks almost ripe... take a taste when it is .... but be close to the toilet, it works like Ex-lax.... Look forward to seeing Soidog Chocolates on the store shelves soon! I am studying now ! This one was ripe!..... a little more orange colour and you'll be good to go .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teletiger Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 1 Fact is Ghanaians are leaving Cocoa for Rubber, Is it an option fir Southern farmers to switch over and make money? I'd have thought both would be good. Cocoa likes shade? Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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