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Chocolate trees, I’m not so much growing them as slowly killing them, but they’re still alive and I have high hopes.

On the left is an Inga feuillei (Ice Cream Bean). It’s very happy, growing lots of little shoots and a few big ones. I bet it would make adventitious roots, eh? Quick and easy propagation if so…

I enclosed a metal shelving unit with greenhouse plastic, put a heater on the bottom with fish tank full of water and a towel hanging down into it to make a simple swamp cooler to modulate the heater and increase the humidity. It worked really well until the towel dissolved!

Chocolate trees, I'm not so much growing them as slowly killing them, but they're still alive and I have high hopes.

On the left is an Inga feuillei (Ice Cream Bean).  It's very happy, growing lots of little shoots and a few big ones.  I bet it would make adventitious roots, eh?  Quick and easy propagation if so...

I enclosed a metal shelving unit with greenhouse plastic, put a heater on the bottom with fish tank full of water and a towel hanging down into it to make a simple swamp cooler to modulate the heater and increase the humidity.  It worked really well until the towel dissolved! Chocolate trees, I'm not so much growing them as slowly killing them, but they're still alive and I have high hopes.

On the left is an Inga feuillei (Ice Cream Bean).  It's very happy, growing lots of little shoots and a few big ones.  I bet it would make adventitious roots, eh?  Quick and easy propagation if so...

I enclosed a metal shelving unit with greenhouse plastic, put a heater on the bottom with fish tank full of water and a towel hanging down into it to make a simple swamp cooler to modulate the heater and increase the humidity.  It worked really well until the towel dissolved!

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