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I recently purchased a 7 gallon kari carambola and it's been in ground for maybe a month. Within two weeks it started flowering like crazy now I counted over 80 little fruits setting. I have never grew carambola before. Could anyone tell me if it will hold all the fruit? Because by the size of the tree about 5 ft I don't know how it could support that many fruit. Or Will it drop some before they mature? Any help thanks
cut them off and let the tree grow...it sucks, but it's well worth it in the long run. I wouldn't leave it up to chance...just my 2 cents
Since we are on the subject, how do you eat star fruit? Peel it, eat it straight? Seems kind of waxy to eat with the peel on it.
Just after I planted mine, the ex and I started our divorce. I moved but knew she didn't even care or know about the tree. So I got an uncle to drive me to the house, I hopped out of the truck with a shovel and he went down two blocks and turned around and I got back in after putting the shovel and fruit tree in the back. I cut the top half off and planted it and never missed a crop. It fruited the first year in the ground and has frozen back a time or two, but has never failed to fruit. Water it and stand back. This is one tree that will produce a lot of fruit for you. It wants to bloom each big rain storm in season.
Not in a yard I owned. Just easier to not let on I wanted it at that time. Sometimes others don't want something until they find out someone else does. The guy who bought the house later, wiped out close to thirty types of citrus to plant grass. And I still have the tree, not just one half of it.