I have about a dozen Cara Cara's some in large containers; and others in ground... I love them for eating out of hand and for juice; and in my climate they produce year round. A tree that size should produce maybe half a dozen fruits with no problem. BTW, it is a beautiful tree... why do you feel sorry for it?

Bob, that's a beautiful looking tree! How long have you been growing it? It is a very nice healthy looking tree and great job.

Bob, very good looking tree! How tall is it? Can you support the branches somehow, if they are pulled down? How many oranges are you going to let grow on it? I love cara cara oranges!

Last year it carry 4 big ones,don,t know this coming late winter. I think the pot is 11* tall and the tree, about 13” but 34 “ wide. Personally I don,t like a tree that small.

Bob, I'm curious, how long have you had that tree? What do you feed it? It looks very nice)

What do they taste like? I do have one and I have yet to eat a fruit on it. It's only a year or two old.

You can train the branches by supporting them or pulling them upwards and secure them, while they are young. Put round tomato cage around the tree and rest the branches on it. You can remove the cage once the branches harden off and can stand by themselves.

The tree's are about 3 years old maybe a little older, because i bought of the reject shelves at Walmart sometimes in late summer. It has a twin, a Meyer lemon, same size. It tasted mediocre to tell you the true, hopefully get better, the Meyer tasted pretty good.Might have pick at the wrong time.

Sunshine i grow a lot of bamboo and use them for support.

I've found that buying at a discount simply isn't worth it in comparison to how much time, energy, effort, and space it ends up taking up over the long-term.

I know how you feel Bob. I hate to see a small tree like that carrying such a huge load. It’s a nice tree though!

Thanks,Laura and others.

It is a very nice tree and I do hope it holds a few fruitlets for you. I had my first taste of a Cara Cara last fall. Bought the fruit from a grocery and it was amazing.

Off topic, but I saw you do persimmons, a friend gave me some a while back and they look real nice come autumn all orange and what not. I was advised that they are an acquired taste.... I tried them for the first time and followed directions but while the fruit was soft and sweet initially, afterwards there was an astringent after taste. Are you aware of varieties without that aftertaste and self pollinating. Season will be here before you know it and I can try the fruit if its common in stores

Persimmon you do not have to have an acquired taste, some people like certain apples and don't eat the ones they don't like.In late fall i will have a ton of these things and they be all gone. Even our doctor can wait for his care package. Most like the astringent ones and they got to be soft. I got so many of them and some do much better to be pollinated. Your zone is very good for orientals. The ones i grow you will not find them in the store.

Grafting for me has really paid-off. Here is something to think about, the little tree in question above has spun in 2 or 3 additional grafted tree's growing to normal size tree's.

The Xie-Shan tree ordered from Harris, $ 20.00 plus shipping has grown in 3 more all in a short time. Bought a persimmon tree, a premium kind has spun in a small orchard and sionwood has given me all the citrus varieties i care for.

Bob, grafting a tree and growing it outside in the ground is a way to go, nothing can beat that. Growing trees in containers is a mixture of fun and pain :)) (painful winters :))

Sunshine, so far it has been a real fun experience, even in the dead of winter my workshop has been the connuate of the outside. Did grafting in January and was successful,100% success, just need more room. Add 2 more led shop lights, still in the box, love them.

Bob, I think I am going to do supplemental lighting for my trees this coming winter, I was very disappointed when some of my trees got dieback and I lost my spring starts in April, did not use starts from a garden center, I didn't even feel like growing vegetables this year, but really enjoyed growing couple of hibiscus and orchid plants, had fun with grafting and air layers.

Sunshine, what does your set up looks like? Being curious.

Bob, I grow my trees on a south west facing balcony, they are packed tight and I only have little space in between to walk and water my plants, in the winter I move them inside the sunroom adjacent to the balcony. Good thing that balcony is not covered and they get plenty of rain and sunshine. Here it is:

sunshine - looks like your balcony is bigger than my little patio. lol In fact my old balcony total area was bigger than my current patio's total area where I'm now down to about 70% of the space that I used to garden on! But then the trade off is that I'm now getting overhead sun versus the covered balcony I used to have. Plus I can get sun from almost all the directions here versus only getting NE sun (although it was full morning sun because I was above all the houses and trees) and a little sun in the afternoons from the west on one end of the balcony.

Sunshine I do not know how old you are, I see a real change in your live,something bigger, I mean bigger. If you are my age,no,no!!

Everything you touch seems to grow exceptionally well,so hang on. Two things you can do with your figs either grow them tall and put your shorter tree's around it. If you grow them short and wide you lose space.

Laura, your tree,s are doing screaming hot, it is just amazing what you gals has accomplished,hats of to all of you. Then there is Steve, he should get an award for the most trianist, it is just fun to read his stuff.

Bob

assuming you bring the tree in, Place a daylight CFL over the center of the tree and it will send up a water sprout. Let it grow unimpeded and it will branch later. Don't cut of the lower limbs. What part of the country do you live in. I am sure someone would be happy to pick up that tree if you don't want it.

Steve

Steve, come winter I will show you my set up. I,m in the process of redoing my workshop hopefully.