To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] Carambola
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:19:45 -0600
Has anyone grown carambola (starfruit) from seed? I once saw a large,
bearing tree in Sam Power's Santa Fe, TX hoophouse that was grown from seed.
His wife Ginger started it from a grocery store fruit. I have three kinds
of small bananas, a pomegranate, three kumquats and a Mexican breadfruit all
growing in my sunroom here in snowy No. Illinois. I'd like to add a
starfruit, but I don't know it's possible to keep it dwarf enough to fit
indoors during our long winter.