3 Full-sized Balimbing In One Cluster
zbsarian
One very satisfying experience you can have when you wake up in the morning is to pick some ripening fruits from your own trees. That’s exactly what we felt this morning (March 6, 2018) when we harvested a cluster of three full-sized balimbing (a.k.a. Carambola, Star Fruit) from our three-year-old tree growing in a medium-size rubberized container.
The fruits are sweet and juicy with very mild acidity. For many years now, we have been growing balimbing trees in containers and so many of our customers have done the same. We have two varieties we grow in our farm in Teresa, Rizal, both of which bear big fruits that are very nice to eat.
What is so good about balimbing is that it is so adaptable to container planting. Grafted planting materials will bear fruit as early as one year after planting. Provide a growing medium that is rich in organic matter that is well drained and then regularly fertilized with vermicast and inorganic complete (14-14-14) fertilizer.
When fruits develop, they should be bagged with paper or cloth bags to protect them from fruit flies.
Beautiful balimbing. I would like to grow one too. May I ask, you said the potting medium shld be well drained organic soil. But have to regularly fertilize with inorganic fertilizer? I thought it shld also be organic fertilizer. Also, what do you mean fertilize regularly? How often? Planning to go to your farm next month. Tks
Regular fertilizing means at least every month. Processed organic fertilizer or vermicast is okay.
Do you sell seeds of that Balimbing Variety?
We only sell grafted planting materials.
We sell only grafter planting materials that will usually bear fruit in one year. Price is P250 each up, depending on size. We also have fruiting size in medium-size container, 6 ft tall up.
Sir, Do you deliver to Zamboanga del Sur? How much would be the charge?
Sir if grown from seed, how many years before it will bear fruits? Thanks
Sorry, we have not tried growing it from seed. It could probably take four years to fruit from a small seedling, given the right care.
Can you also bring me one grafted balimbing to AANI together with the grafted giant avocado?
ben rara