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Doreen,

At ECHO in Ft. Myers, FL (www.echonet.org), they have a rooftop gardening area, where many plants are grown on a concrete pad in various and sundry containers.  Including carambola trees in trucktire planters.  Fruit on trees about 4-5 feet.

 

Agreed that the grafted and named trees are better, but most of the seedling fruit pretty good as well.

 

Recommended course I heard was to plant out the seedlings, then graft the best flavored ones onto the roots of the ones less so.

 

Richard Moyer

Cherry-quince chess pie tonight