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Whether you’re encouraging your kids to start gardening, or just want to save money on your grocery bills, growing your own chocolate makes a lot of sense.
It’s well known that chocolate can be a difficult treat to grow, especially getting the fruit to mature with the correct colors and flavors.
In this video we explain how to sow and space your chocolate plants correctly, and demonstrate key techniques to make sure you will be harvesting delicious M&M’s throughout the growing season.
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you can not grow m&m
Kinda angry that this video did not take into account farmers in the southern hemisphere. I followed the instructions exactly but all I keep getting are W&W´s
I'm waiting for a video to grow M&M's w/peanuts
When i was little I literally thought this shit worked LOL
I love this video – I post it on Twitter and Facebook every April 1st…just in time for planting 😉
Ha ha, that was brilliant!
I always thought chocolate season was from October to April.
Need an alkaline soil for the blues
I love it, darling just darling, video!!
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excitedly adjusts glasses Ok, the reason you're not getting much in the way of blues is because you're not attracting the right pollinators to your flowers, because the M&M plant didn't evolve to grow in a monoculture, and with incomplete pollination you get an extremely uneven color distribution that is often almost devoid of blues. The fix is simple: companion planting! Add one blue morning glory plant for every four M&M plants to your trellises – don't worry, this won't overcrowd them – and as long as the proper sorts of pollinators exist in your area, the two species have enough of the right pollinators in common for the morning glories to take the place of the M&M's usual pollinator-attracting "partner plant," the Blue-Frilled Skittles Orchid, which unfortunately has never been successfully grown outside of its natural habitat. (as opposed to the more well known Black Skittles Orchid, which has adapted quite well to greenhouse conditions) The reason you don't see companion planting in the mass production greenhouses is that most bring the proper pollinators directly to the plants, so essentially humans ended up taking the place of the Blue-Frilled Skittles Orchid. And hey, who doesn't want an excuse to add such a gorgeous pop of color into the middle of their M&M patch? Because while those little white flowers are cute and sweet, they've got nothing on morning glories.
Oh, side note – the M&M flowers are actually edible as well. They have a delicate white chocolate flavor with notes of vanilla, really quite delightful, and the plants produce them so prolifically when trimmed that you don't have to worry about compromising your harvest. They're particularly good with fresh berries from elsewhere in your garden, eaten just minutes after being picked… Not that you have to or anything, the flowers keep about as well as other similar edible flowers, but do I really need to explain the delights of produce that ridiculously fresh? To this crowd? 😉
Is this real
fake
One of my favorite April fools jokes ever. I share it almost every year!
This has never worked for me…I guess it's because I eat all the seeds!
hahahahahaha!
I don't get it
I have a tip for growing the blue M&M's as requested: tears of sadness dropped onto the leaves in the 1st week of growth tends to increase the likelihood of producing them…kind of like how Rose Petal came to life in the 80s.
You forgot to mention the downside – they make you FAT, give you a BAD COMPLEXION, sugar causes CANCER and HEART DISEASE, being FAT makes you susceptible to diseases such as COVID-19, gives you DIABETES, don't taste anything as good as an organic apple (only to the fat arse morons that have bought into the FDA food guidelines), sugar is the number one cause of INFLAMATION OF THE JOINTS, HEART AND BRAIN leading cause of arthritis, dementia, Alzheimer's… and yet society is running around telling us to wear masks and take an unproven DANGEROUS genetic-modifying "jab", when all we have to do is make sure we have adequate vitamin D3 levels (which 80% of the people DO NOT), and take proven Ivermectin that could have saved 300,000 plus lives! April fools you say? The April fools are the dangerous crowd of imbeciles that refuse to listen to Front-line Doctors treating patients with Ivermectin.
@t Oh, and you can thank me later if I saved your life because you bothered to watch the video (there are many!!!), or if you refused to take the jab and have avoided the immune inflammation that will plague you the rest of your entire life… immune inflammation that doesn't develop until 6 – 18 months ADFTER you taken the experimental injection… at least this according to world renowned PhD Geert Bossha head of vaccine development teams for the past 40 years… according to 20 years of failure to be approved by the FDA for the cori=ona virus trials… NO April fools – ONLY AN IDIOT… A DANGEROUS ONE ATTHAT WOULD TAKE THE JAB BEFORE SEEING THE RESULTS OF THE TRIALS ON HUMANS 6-18 MONTHS DOWN THE ROAD – ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD GIVE IT TO A YOUNG ADULT OR CHILD!!!
We have soils that are highly alkaline. Any tips?
Also, can you save the seeds for planting next year?
I remember watching this as a kid and falling for it
The best way to get the blues is to fertilize liberally with Muddy Waters.
I've found the best foliar feed for an extra boost of sweetness can be made by a solution of 1 20oz bottle of coca cola, 1 tsp f organic agave syrup…and steeping a small sachet of powdered sugar and 1 barney and friends dvd into the liquid for roughly 2 hrs on april 1.
Did anyone else have their teacher use this video to teach the students about April Fools ? I was in 3rd grade
Hilarious!!