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Cacao Blooms – Start to Finish

By Kimberly Beck08/31/2011Costa Rica Living, Fruits, Foods, Recipes of Costa Rica, Wildlife Information Zonebloom, cacao, Costa Rica, day, flower, image, photo

The Cacao blooms are attached to the trunk of the tree. It seems to me that this is a natural defense to keep the branches from breaking. The Cacao fruits are so heavy that just two on any of the branches could cause it to snap so the tree has it’s fruit on it’s trunk.

Our Cacao in bloom

By Kimberly Beck08/30/2011Costa Rica Living, Fruits, Foods, Recipes of Costa Rica, Wildlife Information Zonebloom, cacao, colors, day, fruit, image

We have about 25 cacao trees along our creeks here in Costa Rica. We have been playing around with the drying process and learning how to prune our trees lately. We have done a successful batch of nibs but still don’t quite understand the tempering to chocolate process. Here are two images of the fruit

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Cacao Blooms – Start to Finish

Our Cacao in bloom