Cocoa Helpers
Posted in: Tech Help, Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
Ssssh.. .....it's research ! :)
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Cocoa Helpers
Posted in: Tech Help, Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
Thank you Sebastian,.... it wasn't the fertilization so much as i was wondering if , what and how these frequent visitors were up to......I had probably spent too long in the hot sun, .....but will still observe and see what I think they are doing.....the perfect excuse to lie on my back in the shade and take a five . The cocoa trees seem to attract more lizards than the nutmeg or other trees and the lesser Antillean bullfinches spend a lot of time pecking the branches .
Cocoa Helpers
Posted in: Tech Help, Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
Thanks to The Chocolate Life, I now know the importance of midges or sand flies, as we call them here, in relation to the fertilization of the cocoa flower. Lying under a cocoa tree today, I observed lots of other visitors. Does anyone know if lizards, millipedes, ants, birds or any other insect/ creature play an essential part in the development of the cocoa?
updated by @heather andall: 05/21/15 17:20:12
"Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer"
Posted in: Chocolate Education
Thank you Seneca, that is a subject I really want to study., although, thanks to The Chocolate Life i have learned a lot I didn't know!
"Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer"
Posted in: Chocolate Education
sadly Amazon won't deliver to the West Indies.
"Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer"
Posted in: Chocolate Education
Thanks Vercruysse, and yes, I thought so too.
"Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer"
Posted in: Chocolate Education
Thanks Clay, will put it on my wish list, nothing like a hard copy to peruse.
"Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer"
Posted in: Chocolate Education
Thanks Alan, I came across this by chance but am enjoying every page.
"Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer"
Posted in: Chocolate Education
I just found this free online e book (Click to view)
Cocoa and Chocolate
Their History from Plantation to Consumer
by
Arthur W. Knappand thought it may be of interest to those who have not read it before. Written in 1920, I would be interested to know how accurate this information is today. I live where there are not any books available to me on this subject. Thank you.
(All thanks go to The Project Gutenberg.)
Heather.
updated by @heather andall: 04/12/15 19:05:40