As a gardener, I would grow the Criollo, for quality (flavor) and to experiment with hybriding. I wonder which variety is the most nutritious?

I started planting Criollo now to my 2 hectars and the 1 hectar are trinitario and forastero.

Interesting 🤔 thanks for posting this information Gabriela. Hello 👋 from the Philippines 🇵🇭🍫

@@cacaocultureph hi from a Venezuelan living in Australia

Glad it was helpful! I hope you can share with us your cacao journey. We will try to release more informative and educational videos on cacao and chocolate.

@@cacaocultureph Yes. I just bought 25 saplings of the BR25 variety today. I hope all of it grow into healthy cacao trees. Thank you!

San ang farm area?

@@cacaocultureph A small town in Camarines Sur, Bicol. :D

Nice. Good Luck on your cacao journey!😊🍫

Thank you Finca for watching our videos and supporting our channel. That is very interesting. There are some theobroma jaguar here in the Philippines but not so commonly planted and used in processing chocolate.

Thank you Rachel. Do you currently have a cacao farm? San ito located?

Happy new year! Thank you Harry for watching and sharing our videos. I hope you still understand our videos because we mix a little tagalog (philippine language) in there haha. We really appreciate your support. We have some friends in Thailand who do cacao and chocolate. Check out Siamaya Chocolate, Kan Vela Chocolate, Xoconat. 🍫

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Thank you 🙏 will try our best to make more videos

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Hello from Philippines 🇵🇭 good chocolates 🍫 is always welcome 😊 I think you can choose to CCN-51 and find that fermentation recipe that works for you. Hopefully that enhances and brings out its own unique flavor. Then your skill in chocolate making can also enhance your bar to its own level. 😊 Good luck on your Chocolate journey my friend

Good luck Eden on your cacao journey 😊

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Thank you for watching our videos and supporting the channel. We all have to start somewhere ❤️🇵🇭🍫 Good luck on your cacao journey

Thanks for the support Anjee😊 We are happy to hear that you learned something new about cacao and chocolate 🍫 from our channel

Hi Marvin, thanks tor watching our videos and supporting the channel. We currently do not have any seminars. We try out best post informative videos

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@@cacaocultureph There are actually 11 commercial varieties grown here in Trinidad and Tobago.

Yes they are. Thank you din po Mari-jen for the comment and supporting our channel😍

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Hi Rose, thank you for watching our video and commenting on our channel. We truly appreciate it. I am fairly certain that the W10 clone still falls under the trinitario variety. When we were starting in 2016, the propagation and planting of W10 was just fairly starting. As per the National Seed Council, I am not familiar with their process or how quickly they would have it on record. I hope I was able to answer your question Rose. Good luck on your cacao journey.😍

@@cacaocultureph thank you so much for the reply! Definitely am on a journey. So I may send you an email soon. Would be very interested to know the varied tastes of bars from different varieties. If you can have a video on that too? Greetings from cold Stockholm ;)

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That’s great 😃

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Thank you also Doris for supporting our channel.😍😍

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Hi Rhea. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 😊 Good luck on your cacao journey 🍫

Pwd ka ba maging bebe at business partner? Our family has been chocolate for a hundred years already.

@@HugeDaKing hi are talking to me? I would be interested to. How and more info please?

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You’re welcome. Good luck on your cacao journey

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@@cacaocultureph MAY I VISIT YOUR FARM SIR...CAN I TASTE YOUR CHOCOLATE

UF 18 variety for bean size. Ultimately sa weight po ang basis ng sale of beans

That’s true. We don’t have any criollo in the farm so we have no experience in maintaining it

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Each area has its own unique climate, that is especially true now with global warming. Glad to hear about how you are doing it in India 😊 Each variety once properly fermented and dried gets to present its own flavor profiles. While some want to debate which variety are best, we believe the best one is the one that works well in your situation. Thanks for the comment and supporting the channel 🍫🎉

Hi Nidhi, thanks for watching our videos and supporting the channel. I am not quite sure where you can get the seeds in India but I am sure there are parts in India that cacao can actually grow. India also has artisinal chocolate makers already using local cacao beans and it might be best to check out their suppliers or if they grow them themselves. Sorry we couldn't be of more help at the moment as we are unfamiliar with the cacao industry in India. Good luck on your cacao journey!

You’re welcome Crezel🥰 Thanks for commenting on our video. 🍫🇵🇭

UF18? Yes this a good variety. Big beans😊

El cacao (criollo) se origina en la selva amazónica, probablemente en la zona donde se encuentran Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Brasil. Esto significa que el vasto mundo del cacao proviene de una pequeña región.

Hi Rohit thanks for watching our videos and supporting the channel. We are sorry to hear the current state of cacao farming in your area. There needs to be a lot factors in place in reviving the industry. It will be very difficult doing it alone. We are not in a position to really give any advice especially we are not residing in your country and do not know 1. The history of cacao industry 2. The market and 3. Agriculture priorities. Good luck sir on your cacao journey 🍫❤️

Thanks for the information sir Scott😊

Thanks for the information. 🙏🥰 Love that you have pointed this out Damian😊

Great question 🙋🏻‍♂️ unfortunately i am not so sure

Thank you for watching the video and supporting the channel Marvelyn! We hope to make more videos about cacao seeds and planting soon. Good luck on your cacao journey!

Theres a facebook group that specializes in criollo in the Philippines. However I am personally not connected with them and I would not know how to spot if cacao beans that have been fermented/ dried / roasted are criollo beans.

Hi Nemehiah, there are a lot of varieties that we did not mention dahil marami lang po talaga. That doesn’t mean they are bad or not good enough. Again we always ask people what they’re objectives are and the environment that they are in kasi may mga outside factors that impact your choices sa pag pili ng variety for your farm. Hope that that answers some of your questions 😊 good luck on your cacao journey

Blending of cacao beans po is okay depends po ok how you want to mix it.

Thank you Jess for the love and support! 😍

Depending on your locality you can approach farming cooperatives, depending on your quality and volume you can also approach traders or even direct small manufacturers. Again this is based on your capacity and quality and location 😊

Hi thanks for watching our video and pointing that out. We actually didn't know about this fact and we appreciate this new information and knowledge.

Thanks Lovely for watching and supporting the channel. I am not sure what you mean by this question but ill try my best to answer. If the question if there's a market for cacao... yes meron. However you also have to ask a question to yourself, why would the "market" buy from you? I think yan ang question that most people miss out. What is that compelling reason they buy from you. I hope that we've helped in some way. Good luck on your cacao journey.

Hi Honey may mga cacao groups sa facebook that the community can help identify your cacao

Pollination happens through insect pollination activity. These insect are called midges. Yes eventually the beans will reflect hybrid development in time. If you have a criollo orchard make sure to keep other varieties away to keep it intact.

Hi thank you for watching our videos. Typically criollo has a unique way of being identified. if you slice the raw cocoa seeds in half and if the seeds are color white then most likely you have a criollo variety. If the color is not white then that is not criollo. Hope that this answer helps. Good luck on your cacao journey

@@cacaocultureph Thanks for the info

I made dark choclate at home ..it was fun. . Its so healthy cocoa is having p;roperty like cofee.. it makes you ehalthy anti diabteic, and also anti cancer and also helps in having good heart heatlh ..Good for skin ,etc and also energy and brain.. I took warm coconut oil, on that cocoa nib powdered and almond it tasted good . enoyed it

@@pauljohny200 amazing! Great job.

Hi Rea, thanks for watching our videos and supporting our channel. We do not cultivate Criollo on our farm. Good luck on your search and your cacao journey

Hi Stamaths, thanks for watching our video and supporting our channel. You can check r search for cacao/cocoa belt. This will lead you to pictures or images of countries in our world map that are areas where the climate conditions can support cacao growth. I hope that our answer helped you in some way. Good luck on your cacao journey

@@cacaocultureph thank you Very much,greetings from Greece!!

Hi Etienne, Thanks for watching and commenting on our videos here on our channel. Where are you located? Philippines? Typically people buy the raw beans in large volumes. And they would do the roasting themselves. In the past few years, there's also large volume quantities of cacao nibs being produced and bought in large volumes. Cacao Nibs would be your roasted beans that has been already separated from the shells through the winnowing process. Depending on what you need and where you are situated, we can offer or suggest sources of beans or cacao nibs depending on your requirement.

Hi Sir Glenn, thank you for watching our videos and supporting this channel. Unfortunately we've stopped our nursery operations since 2019 to focus on the farm and production of products. We are not familiar with criolio seedling suppliers near your area.

Check out our How to Dry cacao beans video 😊

Thankyou

No idea sir. We are not familiar with the suppliers in cavite area

We don’t have any official farm tour po. We do get some visitors from time to time

Very very low Terry, compared to other cacao producing countries.

Wonderful memories 🍫🥰

Hi Jhofrens thank you for watching our videos and supporting the channel 😊 Davao cacao beans will probably be mostly trinitario variety. However per farm will still have different types of trinitario

Hi Marvi, Thank you for watching and commenting on our video. We appreciate the support. For your question ... do mean the fruit? You can check out our old video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLRmrcJl0ZeXcXk.html

Hi Anselma, as much as we want to answer this question, there is really no single "best" clone for cacao. It will depend on your location, your farm, your goals in your business - if you are just selling cacao beans or going to process it into products, the market etc. My suggestion is to try and learn more about cacao clones and choose what best fits your requirements.

Hi Pedro. I can not say for certain but i think that majority of the beans may be BR 25 variety

Hi Micho, thanks for watching our videos and supporting the channel. We've stopped selling seedlings to focus on the farm and selling of products. We will come up with a video on how to start planting cacao seedlings

Okay maam/sir.. i'll keep watching your videos to have more knowledge on cacao farming. ☺️

We personally do not sell criollo seedlings or seeds. You can check out some groups that advocate this kind of planting materials. top of mind is Plantacion de Sikwate but they might be expensive. I am not sure about the authenticity of other sellers na criollo po talaga ang binebenta. I hope that this information helped Dena. Thanks for watching our videos and joining our KZfaq family

Hi Mary Jane, thanks for watching our videos and supporting the channel. W10 is ok big beans 👍

Actually trinitario is the mix of the two varieties so we’ve seen light violet pag bean cut mixed with slightly white beans sa isang pod. Most of the time white beans (criollo) what people look out for but for us each variety is unique and has its own story to tell

Hi Sir Jimmy, thank you for commenting po here on our channel. That's a very good question. Regarding Trinitario specifically I am not sure about how it will fare in a rolling hills topography. For cacao farming in general, rolling hills pwede naman mag grow ang cacao trees but I am not recommending the set up because it will be hard for your farm team to maintain and harvest later on. Imagine going up and down hill to fertilize, prune the trees and carrying cacao pods. So for the same amount of cacao beans sobrang taas na ng labor cost. Then you would need to consider soil erosion and soil nutrient loss when it washes away during rainy days. If you really want to develop a cacao farm sa hillside, you can apply terrace farming. Most popularly known terrace farming in the Philippines would be our Banaue Rice Terraces or the Ifugao Rice terraces. Sa sloping or hill part of the farm you have to cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms, which resemble steps, for the purposes of more effective farming. I have not seen an actual cacao application for terrace farming but this type of farming method would be okay for cacao, otherwise you will have to deal with the concerns I raised earlier. I hope we were able to answer your question and help you on your cacao journey. We super appreciate the question.

@@cacaocultureph thank you sir for the honest insight we will follow your advice and see how cacao can thrive on the hillside topography

You're welcome. We will continue to produce and share videos on a regular basis. hoping makatulong to more people. This Friday we will upload video on how we started our farm and things we learned and what we could have done better. Salamat sa pag support sa amin sa KZfaq.

Is Nacional different from criollo?

@@cacaocultureph Yes it is different. It's also the rarest variety that had been existing longer than criollo for more than 5,000+ years. It has a far more complex flavor, bigger bean, and more nutrients compared to criollo. It's currently grown in Ecuador, and I was hoping that it also exist here. I found out about it in a website vlog of "toakchocolate" titled "Comparing the Two Best Cacao Varieties in the World". If it isn't available, I hope it will be in our country someday.

@@vanjosh7763 I don't think it is available. It hasn't been talked about in the local PH industry. But thank you for sharing the information. Amazing.

Good luck on your cacao journey 😊 thanks for watching the videos and supporting the channel

Hi Kaye, I've heard some local farmers call certain type of Cacao Brazilian that is different from BR 25. I am not exactly sure what the difference is though. Why do you ask? Btw, thanks sa pagsupport mo sa channel namin! God Bless

Hi Ralph. Thanks for checking our video out and also commenting. The varieties you mentioned would still fall under Trinitario varieties. In general terms Philippines would have the criollo variety and mostly everything else available are Trinitario. Hope that our answer was helpful. 😀

@@cacaocultureph Hello sir, ano po name ng store nyo. Do u have fermented beans ba?

@@ralphjava9744 Our online store is www.cacaoculture.ph If ever you are in Davao we own the store Cacao City. For fermented beans we do not usually sell locally but you can email us at team@cacaoculturefarms.com tell us what your requirements are and we'll try and find a way to help.

Hi Mommy G😊 UF18 would still fall under Trinitario variety 🍫

@@cacaocultureph thank you for answering po 💖😊

Hi Ariel, thank you for your comment. We closed our nursery facility in 2019 to focus on main farm operations. The nursery was located in Dumoy Davao City.

Hi Mommy G. We stopped our cacao seedlings nursery operations in 2019 to focus on the farm and development of cacao products.

@@cacaocultureph where can we possible buy cacao seedlings? Do you have recommendations? Thank you :)

Saan po ang location ninyo or ng farm nyo?

@@cacaocultureph leyte sir 😊

Sorry i am not familiar with seedlings sellers in the area of leyte

Hopefully we can come up with a grafting video soon.

Thanks for commenting on our video. That’s a very good question. Actually it depends on the maturity of the farm, the skill and know how of the person also. Sa mga training sessions that I have attended they say 1 person kaya 3 hectares but again Depends siguro sa skill and also farm management. Our farm we are around 2 people to 3 hectare (1:1.5 ratio). I have seen a very optimal farm na 3 people - 6 hectares (1:2 ratio). Then pag harvest mag add lang ng tao based on seasonality. Again please be mindful sa skill ng tao, the resources that they are given to perform the task contribute towards how well and efficiently they take care of your farm

@@cacaocultureph wow.. Very informative and detailed.. dami ko nalaman salamat po. hope marami pa video e upload nyu.. I am planning to start a cacao farm.. Sana po sa pest and disease management namam po next.. Hehe ty po and God bless

Cacao is a commodity and dependent sa supply and demand ng isang lugar. Depends po sa location if may buyers po talaga.