HOW TO GROW COCOA
Native to South and Central America and here and there reaching more than 50 feet in the wild, the cocoa tree is for the most part limited to a large portion of that tallness or less under development. Since it develops best in halfway shade, it must be kept shorter than the trees giving its shelter. Its polished leaves, which can reach up to 2 feet long, develop a rosy shade and age to green. The tree's little pink or white flowers show up in bunches on plant tissue "pads" on the tree's trunk or lower branches, regularly amid spring and summer. After fertilization, those flowers form into bean-filled, furrowed units, up to 14 inches long, which age to yellow or red in fall and winter. Sowing the Cocoa Tree To begin your own tree, procure seeds that are still in the case or have been kept sodden since their expulsion from it. The 3/4 to 1/2-inch "beans" lose reasonability following one to three months or on the off chance that they are per...