Growing Cacao

[Rene Siracusa]

Albizia? Think again. Once your albizia are big enough to shade your cacao they will start dropping their humongous limbs and crushing your young trees. They will be a hazard to anyone on the property trying to harvest the cacao or keeping the weeds (albizia seedlings) down. Albizias fix more nitrogen than most other plants can handle - it would be like taking an overdose of vitamins: too much of a good thing. And your neighbors would be justified in their anger, once your trees started falling on their homes or causing them eradication costs and effort. And you would have a monopoly on the resulting liability.

I sure hope your post was facetious....