Hi Wiigodess! Long time no see you.:) I remember you asking me about the carambola last time that you came to the house. Excalibur is in South Florida and they don't ship, they have the Bell variety that I like. But the variety that I have Sri Kembanqan is also good. I got it from a vendor in the Leu Gardens sale. I am sure that you can find it locally where you live. My neighbor bought a variety that he likes and he found it on Craiglist for cheap and they even planted for him. I think that Deland has a farmers market that carry fruit trees, we have one on Saturday in Winter Garden but it will be far for you. If you want to do mail order Pine Island ship their trees, now is a good time to buy one before we get the cold weather. Let me know what happens and if you find your tree. Silvia Here is a link that might be useful: starfruit

Cultural factors? CULTURAL FACTORS??? I've heard soil, light, and fertilizer but now we have to worry about cultural factors? OK, so be it... I'll dress my Kary up in a Tux tomorrow :-) That will make him look impotent, or is it important?... darn English pronunciation :-) The Kajang was the FIRST carambola to literally stop me in my tracks on taking the first bite. Kinda like the Lemon Guava did. Jeff, Thanks for the FSHS pdf link it's very well done. Though if I had to rate the three and burn two to the ground I would have to keep (so far) the Kajang. If the little Kajang keeps giving me the extraordinary taste of the first one I'm going to be one happy camper. Anyway, murahilin I bought the little Kajang at HD in east Hollywood (Fla.) for no other reason than it had hundreds of blossoms and my Kary and Bell seemed unwilling to flower. This is the only Kajang I've ever seen anywhere. Most of the retail stores have Arkin or an unnamed variety. For the $25.00 (IIRC) I paid for it, the tree was well worth the risk. If it gets cold out there I'm going to fabricate a little tent around it! The Kary and Bell will have to fend for themselves, they're three to four times larger. When this little guy gives up the next harvest I'll bring some to you Jeff. As usual you're welcome to take cuttings from it when I go to trim it.

I think you probably could have left them alone. They weren't in the ground long enough for there to really be a problem of not fruiting. If you went a year without fruit I'd be concerned. You should probably just leave them alone. Keep on taking care of them but don't try to force them to bloom. No need to especially after only a few months in the ground.

Hi Tried that once .They'd give me 10 cents each IF I delivered lol Also tried giving them to "Food for Families" They wanted me to pick them and deliver them to 5 different locations for free . While I didn't expect any money I thought they'd at least pick them up or a buck or two for gas money?? lol It is in full fruit right now and in full flower these will start ripening around late Jan. If it doesn't get cold it will flower again!!. Barring a frost there are fruit at least 9/10 months of the year lol Also have 3 neighbors with trees ,equally as productive but the fruit is not as good nor is there a winter crop. One is a very pale yellow color very tart almost like lemon. I will probably will cut it down except that I'm using it to grow epiphytes so have hesitated but it's now dropping fruit into the water garden in spite of my severe pruning.. I think animals are moving the fruit but haven't caught them yet lol remember being so excited the first time it flowered lol At least the fruit doesn't sprout like some other fruit trees. Suriname cherry being the worst.lol Enough of my ravings lol gary