Today my friend from work Christian came out to Hakalau to help out. We layed out 1 row of weed mat, weeded all the current plants and planted ~90 nanaea, 32 mamaki, and about a dozen koaia. The weeds are getting tall and were tricky to pull without damaging our koaia. I will plan to mow soon.
Jake recently ordered some acai seeds online. they arrived and I picked them up today. I read up on germination techniques and started them 5 minutes ago. We ordered 1000 seeds and hope to get at least 500 trees in about a year or so. We hope to have enough trees for the Miuse's property in Pepeekeo and our Hakalau property. All the info that I have read seems very promising as acai fruit(pulp) is very expensive and Hamakua is one of the only suitable climates for unirrigated acai in the Nation. We need to decide how much area to designate to acai palm cultivation. We can fit a bout 100 trees per acre. These seeds are from the BRS Para dwarf variety that has been developed by the Brazilian government to be shorter and more productive than wild grown acai trees. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I do a good job germinating our baby acais and can get them robust and ready for the ground. Mahalo to Jake for making this important investment in acai seeds, We will do our best to protect it.
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