COCOA HAND POLLINATION 

Yes. Cocoa trees cannot self pollinate. Essentially it needs new male genetic information added to the female parts. Like animals!

Sucks for me indoor grower and trying to get a pod without self pollinating I’ll get one this yr I guess thanks for info

My bro say again step by step will help some of us to learn by ourselves

The male and female are on the same flower, it has male parts and female parts

generally, flowers will have male and female parts simultaneously

Bees are too big for cacao flowers - they are pollinated by midges

It isn't doing enough

@@I.amthatrealJuan You mean its not doing enough for the unnatural capitalism. Left to nature, its enough!

@@4abrownafrica939 But then again, we have put not only ourselves into an unnatural state but nature itself too. You think many species and ecosystems that we have driven to endangered status will survive without intervention? No. Btw, cacao isn't even native to Ghana so you're cherrypicking on what you consider to be natural

@@I.amthatrealJuan When I said unnatural, I was referring to capitalism, not cocoa!

@@4abrownafrica939 Of course capitalism is unnatural, it is man-made as are other economic systems

Not entirely sure but Cocoa is not native to Africa so the insects required to polinate as efficiently as these people might not live there.

I have many cacao trees in Colombia and they are pollinated by very small insects called midges. Like the presenter said, many flowers are not pollinated for some reason, but the tree can support more pods, so why not hand pollinate? It's a wonderful idea that I'm going to try as well, but I will need reading/magnifying glasses ;-)

the pollen from the flower is too sticky and heavy to be carried by the wind, i think. the flowers are really small (2-3 inches or 5 to 7.6 centimeters) and you have to be really meticulous about pollinating them because the reproductive system is very intricate and hard to reach.

Too big - midges are the pollinators