The Mt Edna plantation produced a ‘hero’ tree recently. Here it is, with picking time approaching.

To celebrate our ‘hero’ tree we ran a Cocoa Pod competition on Instagram. See it here.

The answer

Our hero had 368 pods when this photo was taken.

One of our Mt Edna trees yields 40 – 80 pods.

The winner 

The closest guess 357! 

Cocoa yield

A tree yielding 40 – 80 pods should produce 25 -50 bars of Mt Edna chocolate of 70% cocoa (nibs plus cocoa butter).

Our hero had 368 pods when this photo was taken. Before harvest it may drop a few pods - say to 300 which is still four times the typical number. So, our hero yields 4 to 9 times the bars of a typical cocoa tree.

We need more heroes, which is what the Agri Futures project is about.