This time we have a flower cluster. Typically cacao trees grow more than one flower from a single flower pad. To keep a flower pad in good condition you never pull fruit off of the tree. That will damage a pad and may never grow flowers from that location again if it is damaged too much.This is still the first tree but if you look closely this is flowers 4,5,6, and 7. Still trying to get the second tree big enough that it will want to flower.
Both trees are currently in the same area and of course indoors. The heat this week is in the mid 100's so definitely not what these trees need to be happy and healthy.
The strawberry plants on the other hand are coming back like it's spring. I had nearly given up on them but kept watering anyway. Now it looks like, even though they died back quite a bit all the way down to the dirt, they are all coming back with new growth. At first it was just one of the plants with a small green shoot of leaves but now the whole pot is nearly filled in at the ground level. I can only hope that this is going to mean they will overwinter well if I bring them inside. They are in a pot after all. The runners we propagated however did not fare so well and have not come back. Much of what we planted out front though is still good. Our basil plants are bushy and getting bigger after I trimmed back the flowers.
The fig tree in the back is also bouncing back nicely. I had figured the heat would keep it down until September or October once it started cooling down but the heat seems to have kicked it into high gear and it's shooting leaves up all over.
