Taro & Ti Chocolate

I can’t remember quite what sparked my search for my first chocolate tree. Perhaps a Godiva truffle from Christmas? Or perhaps it was a logical next step from my desire to grow coffee trees? It’s hard to say - it was several years ago and has been forgotten in the flurry of excitement, joy and disappointment, success and failures that have colored my chocolate growing experience. However, before it slips totally away from me, I figure it would be smart to lay out the beginning of my chocolate growing adventure.

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Welcome to Taroandti.com. This site is about Chocolate - primarily my attempts to grow it. Of all the exotics I cultivate, Chocolate has to be one of the most finicky - but it’s worth the trouble. There’s just something about the idea that in a few years you could be seeing your own cacao pods hanging from the tree, all ready to be harvested, slightly fermented, dried, roasted, shelled and crushed with a bit of sugar into some rough but tasty chocolate.

I’ll document my attempts to grow this tree and keep a rolling blog on future developments as I learn more about this fascinating tree.