Here is a post describing my entry into the adventure of growing chocolate. Cacao theobroma is a finicky tree to grow and one that still challenges me and in this post I detail those challenges, with plenty of photographs of my progress. The adventure is far from over and many more articles will follow this one up until I’m holding my own home-grown pod of chocolate, and beyond.
Here is an essay I wrote documenting my first humble greenhouse. It was built out of cattle-panels, zip-ties and translucent poly, was very inexpensive to build and was amazingly effective at keeping my tender tropicals alive. This design has followed me in my current earth sheltered pit greenhouse, with the hoops covering the pit now.
http://greenhouse.taroandti.com/2008/02/26/first-greenhouse/
Boo Rescue is a post I wrote about my effort to rescue and rehabilitate a poorly growing and neglected bamboo from the back of my property. The area has a much shallower subsoil than I had known about when I planted it back there and over the four years it resided there, it didn’t grow any new culms or any taller and two of the plants had perished. This last boo is destined for greatness - its parents grew over 30′ tall and had 2″ culms easily.
Here’s a new post that I wrote recently. I recently purchased some Giant Grey Henon bamboo and this documents my review of it and my bamboo aspirations. I’ll follow this particular boo as it grows, giving a time-lapse of it going from it’s current 3-4′ tall culms to 40-60′ tall culms when it matures here in a few years.
I'm a horticultural enthusiast. My life is deeply shaped by my plant passion. I am decidedly tropical, influenced by having lived on Guam, by life on Hawaii as a child, and a deep infatuation for fruit common in the tropics..
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