Cocoa can be propagated from vegetatively or seeds. Seed pods may be collected from trees yielding 80 or more pods per year with pod weight 350 to 400g. Before sowing Cocoa, seeds are rubbed with wood ash or dry sand to remove the mucilage. The beans are planted either in plastic bags or raised beds, with their pointed end upwards. If you are trying to sow in beds, young seedlings are generally transplanted into polythene bags after around 2 weeks of germination. The seedling is ready for transplantation to the field after they attain a height of 30 cm or around 3 to 4 months.
It can also be propagated vegetatively through softwood grafting, cuttings and forkert method of budding etc. but there are limits at present for implementing vegetative propagation one a commercial scale.
