If they have a passport.

no dah because it is not hot here and where they grow it needs to be hot

Sure with a greenhouse

cocoa plants can make cocaine
so they might have laws on who can grow them

There are companies who’s marketing pitch is “Grown in the USA!”

So yes, you can grow in the US. I mean, most of those companies are based in Hawaii, but thats still the US, right?

no i do not think so because the u.s does not have the right climate for them to grow. for example south america grows them since they have a nice sub-tropical environment. but the u.s does not so yea.

You can grow coffee in your home… Getting it to fruit is hard but the plant itself will grow just fine in the US…

Chocolate is more complicated… It grows VERY tall and I don’t think that you could grow it in a personal greenhouse…

They have one at the Lincoln Park Zoo in a greenhouse and it fruits but it is a tree… But that is an exhibit… So the greenhouse is MASSIVE and staffed by experts…

I’lll BRB with a link to where you can buy coffee.

(I get their catalog in the mail each year)

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P.S. There is a MASSIVE difference between the shrub that makes COCAINE and the TREE that makes the pods that are turned in to Chocolate.

How stupid do you have to be to confuse the two… You obviously have INTERNET access… Try Google… Or Wikipedia!

Coca is a plant in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to north-western South America. The plant plays a significant role in traditional Andean culture. Coca leaves contain cocaine alkaloids, a basis for the drug cocaine, which is a powerful stimulant.

The plant resembles a blackthorn bush, and grows to a height of 2–3 m (7–10 ft). The branches are straight, and the leaves, which have a green tint, are thin, opaque, oval, and taper at the extremities. A marked characteristic of the leaf is an areolated portion bounded by two longitudinal curved lines, one line on each side of the midrib, and more conspicuous on the under face of the leaf.

The flowers are small, and disposed in little clusters on short stalks; the corolla is composed of five yellowish-white petals, the anthers are heart-shaped, and the pistil consists of three carpels united to form a three-chambered ovary. The flowers mature into red berries.

The leaves are sometimes eaten by the larvae of the moth Eloria noyesi.

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Cacao (Theobroma cacao) (Mayan: kakaw, Nahuatl: Cacahuatl), or the cocoa plant, is a small (4–8 m or 15–26 ft tall) evergreen tree in the family Sterculiaceae (alternatively Malvaceae), native to the deep tropical region of the Americas. There are two prominent competing hypotheses about the origins of the original wild Theobroma cacao tree. One is that wild examples were originally distributed from southeastern Mexico to the Amazon basin, with domestication taking place both in the Lacandon area of Mexico and in lowland South America. But recent studies of Theobroma cacao genetics seem to show that the plant originated in the Amazon and was distributed by humans throughout Central America and Mesoamerica. Its seeds are used to make cocoa and chocolate.

The tree is today found growing wild in the low foothills of the Andes at elevations of around 200–400 m (650-1300 ft) in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins. It requires a humid climate with regular rainfall and good soil. It is an understory tree, growing best with some overhead shade. The leaves are alternate, entire, unlobed, 10–40 cm (4-16 in) long and 5–20 cm (2-8 in) broad.

The flowers are produced in clusters directly on the trunk and older branches; they are small, 1–2 cm (1/2-1 in) diameter, with pink calyx. While many of the world’s flowers are pollinated by bees (Hymenoptera) or butterflies/moths (Lepidoptera), cacao flowers are pollinated by tiny flies, midges in the order Diptera. The fruit, called a cacao pod, is ovoid, 15–30 cm (6-12 in) long and 8–10 cm (3-4 in) wide, ripening yellow to orange, and weighs about 500 g (1 lb) when ripe. The pod contains 20 to 60 seeds, usually called “beans”, embedded in a white pulp. Each seed contains a significant amount of fat (40–50% as cocoa butter). Their most noted active constituent is theobromine, a compound similar to caffeine.

The scientific name Theobroma means “food of the gods”. The word cacao itself derives from the Nahuatl (Aztec language) word cacahuatl, learned at the time of the conquest when it was first encountered by the Spanish. Similar words for the plant and its by-products are attested in a number of other indigenous Mesoamerican

yh they can

I’m sure Cocoa tree can grow in warm places like Florida or Hawaii. While coffee grows in tropical mountains… I don’t know if you have that in US.
Both Cocoa and coffee grow well in Mexico.

PS Cocoa and Coca plants have no relation, I guess it was just a joke…