Loading ...The Big Island is pretty much saturated with coffee plantations now. Our growing cash crop here is rapidly becoming cacao and Hawaiian chocolate. Starting to see locally produced chocolate products in the tourist stores. The cacao trees thrive easily in the jungle rainforests here, with only about 6 inches of organic waste topsoil on top of lava rock. Once the trees thrive, all you gotta do is periodically pick the ripe pods. My little tree I got at the swap meet at only 3 ft high. After a year in the ground in my backyard it began to produce pods! The trunk was only the size of my thumb, and 5 ft high. It likes the high moisture of this jungle where we get about 130 inches of rain annually. No drought in this microclimate area of the island.
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