Tag: Ha’a Chocolate Farm

Today I planted a dwarf Samoan coconut near the entrance of the driveway. It’s on the opposite side of the Malayan coconut I planted the other day. The…

I started to divide and repot a bunch of bromeliads that made new keiki. Some made just one or two new keiki, others made up to five. If I keep this up…

Today I attempted to graft durian for the first time. Earlier in the day I watched a bunch of YouTube tutorials on how to do it. I visited an exotic fruit…

Today I planted another marang. These trees can get quite large but we are running low on space. So I decided to plant it relatively close to the other…

Today we planted a dwarf Malayan yellow coconut that we got from Dash. These come from a very special stock of coconuts that Phil the coconut man…

I didn’t know that with some plants you can propagate from leaves. My friend gave me a few chacruna leaves and told me to just dip them water for a while…

Over a month ago I received two boxes of cannonball fruits from Orlando and Sui and it didn’t seem to be ripe yet. Today I cracked another one open and…

Today I planted an Adriatic fig also commonly called white fig. Julia was given a rooted cutting from Holly at the Mala’ai in Waimea and these figs are…

Today I planted another mangosteen tree. This seedling is maybe about a year and a half old. Mangosteens grow very slowly. The best time to plant one is…

Today I planted a sapodilla aka chico sapote that I sprouted from a seed that came from Starseed Ranch up in Hawi. We picked a really ripe fruit off the…