Cocoa Book 2010 - Solomon Islands

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Cocoa trees with too much shade will have elongated stems and ramify too high. Some trees will ramify too low (or below 1 metre) these can also be stumped back and encouraged to ramify higher by allowing more shade. If a tree falls over, a new chupon can grow up from the base, and the main tree trunk sawn off later.

Prune a fallen cocoa tree to one chupon to get another tree SOLOMON ISLANDS COCOA BOOK

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