I ’ve written on grow chocolate in North Florida before , and onmy survival industrial plant profile for coffee , Kakunka relates his own experience in the same area :
I ’m not the guy cable you met at Kanapaha , but I do survive in the area , I ’ve been acquire coffee and tea here for a number of years . . . I taste not to bring anything in the planetary house , unless perfectly necessary . . . prolonged periods of cold or super intemperate freezing . I cover up around freezing and a bit below . Occasionally , I ’ll get some sear from the frigidity . Of course , live next to a lake helps the microclimate . Your observance about seed are evenhandedly accurate , plant seed from fresh ripe berries , after secern the duplicate seed from the cherry . I ’ve never rooted a industrial plant , but apparently that ’s not an rare technique . The temperature here in the summer are in all likelihood not idealistic , and you definitely do n’t want sunlight on your plant all day here . They are , however , clean forgiving plants so long as you do n’t permit them freeze , drown , or desiccate .
My observations arefairlyaccurate ? He obviously spell “ scarily ” wrong .
The sun is an outcome . MyCoffea arabicaplant detest too much direct sun and would sear in the summer heat . It ’s brutal in North Florida summer .
The south wall method for zona - labor I describe inPush the Zonekeeps them live through the winter , though – with no tribute whatsoever except the wonderful caloric mass of a bulwark .
That said , the grow status for chocolate just are n’t that not bad in Florida overall . I got into a full-grown give-and-take with Kona coffee grower Gary Strawn over that subject and he really lays out the difficulty in getting a solid harvest even in idealistic conditions , get alone sub - optimum ace .
Speaking of idealistic circumstance , right now it ’s about 74 grade outside and sunny . Just how I wish to spend Christmas holiday .
Last twelvemonth I was harvest coffee with Rachel around this metre of year .
I need to go check on those tree diagram again and see if there ’s anything to pick .
But for now , it ’s time to rust bacon and testicle , then off the beach .
