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Theobroma cacao
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Posted by smemax NT Aust (My Page) on Tue, Oct 19, 04 at 8:15
| I have just purchased a chocolate bean tree pod and am wanting to get the highest success from these seeds and would welcome and appreciate any suggestions. |
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RE: Theobroma cacao
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| Hello. Here is how I do this. I open the pod and put each seed in a single paper towel, folded and wet. I keep them like this until they germinate and have a root about 1/8 inch long. I then carefully put that into a pot sit in a saucer of water. I keep them wet like that until they get their first true set of leaves. Plantlover24 |
RE: Theobroma cacao
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Hi, I picked some pods in our botanical garden and opened one that was pretty rotten and all the seeds inside were already sprouting: just placed them in some potting mix and off they went: was away for 2 weeks and they hadn't come out on my departure and came back to plants that are already 15cm high: 4 leaves: just kept in a bit of shade and watered....not as regularly as if I would have been home but 20 seedlings present....
Mike |
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