Growing Cacao from Seed - Part 3 - Seedling Care, Potting Up - Growing Chocolate 🍫

Part 3 of my journey learning to grow Cacao trees! They're getting big so I'm potting them up and transitioning them outside. I also go over what happened when I didn't open the beans that sprouts were struggling to get out of.
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Growing Cacao Part 2 - Planting Seeds: • Growing Cacao from See...
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Trying a Cacao Pod for the first time: • Trying a Cacao Pod for...
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I am following this guide from the Puerto Rican grower I got my Cacao pods from. www.montosogar...
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[@AliAhmed-wh8um]

Any updates? And where are you located?

[@CaseysGarden]

I'm in southern California. They're not quite suited for my climate, but it hasn't stopped me trying! It's generally warm throughout the year but parts of the winter months can get pretty low. The low temps took out most of them even in the green house. I have some left, waiting to see if they recover. I might be starting again! I probably need to heat my greenhouse during the winter. If they can get big enough they'll probably be okay.

[@cristiii7605]

Are they still alive? I tried doing a similar process like you did in the other vids but mine rotted and got eaten by fungus gnat larvae

[@CaseysGarden]

The seedlings I have are my 3rd or 4th attempt. They are still alive for now. 🙂 My 1st attempt my seeds all rotted. I switched soils because of rot and fungus gnat issues. Some of the bagged mixes often have their eggs. You could try sterilizing it with boiling water, but it's kind of a pain in my opinion, and may not work. My first success was just with coco coir. These days I'm using a peat, sand, perlite, pumice, charcoal mix. Most mixes are primarily organic matter, generally recycled forest products, aka ground up trees. It can create more bacterial and fungal issues early on for the cocoa beans that are sensitive to rot. It can still work but they may need more air flow and less moisture at the beginning to mitigate some issues.

[@cristiii7605]

@@CaseysGarden Ok thanks, might try again after this winter