Bilimbi
Taxonomy
Averrhoa bilimbi L.
Averrhoa
Oxalidaceae
Oxalidales
How to care for Bilimbi
How often to water your Bilimbi
every 9
Bilimbi needs 0.5 cups of water every 9 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.
Use our water calculator to personalize watering recommendations to your environment or download Greg for more advanced recommendations for all of your plants.
Water 0.5 cups every
9
Finding light for Bilimbi in your home
a window
Bilimbi love being close to bright, sunny windows 😎.
Place it less than 1ft from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.
Bilimbi does not tolerate low-light 🚫.
Select your region to see how the current weather in your area affects the placement of Bilimbi in your home 🏡.
How to fertilize Bilimbi
Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.
By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil it’s likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.
To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your Bilimbi after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.
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I just got a starfruit tree and I want to help calm it from the stress of shipping, any ideas?
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Starfruit tree issues :/ It might be too late by now, but I’m not fully too sure about that since there’s still new growth at the top. I can’t remember when I last watered my tree but when I did I knew I overwatered so I tried to step back for a little bc I could see signs of it. At first I was watering once a week, the realized I’d forget a week here and there so sometimes it’d be once every 2 weeks or when I’d remember and then I over did it. So now idk when it was and I’m not sure what’s going on. I have crispy dead leaves but also soft dead leaves too?? #help #starfruit #overwatering #underwatering #
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Yellowing leaves and losing whole branches… Hi, so, i’ve noticed over the past week or so that my starfruit tree that I germinated from a seed almost 2 years ago is starting to lose a lot of leaves and branches. It’s still young but I was wondering if it’s normal since it’s the middle of august?? It’s been a little while but i think it’s lost about maybe 4 branches in total that had all of their leaves intact on them. I also have it inside facing in a north-east window, I also had bought a humidifier recently and it seemed to have liked it for a little but now i’m not sure if it was too much or not enough to help whatever’s going on with it now. Please help and thank you so much! #help #helpneeded #starfruit #treehelp
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Is it normal for a young starfruit tree to lose leaves and branches sometimes? I’ll add in a picture but for now my starfruit tree is looking good. It’s happened for a couple of months now and sometimes the leaves will get yellow and fall off. At first it was because I realized I was still watering it too much, which was twice a week at that time, and now i’m down to once a week. That helped for a little while, but the other day I had another branch and some half yellow/half green leaves fall off. I’m wondering if it’s maybe too cold in my room or maybe it’s something with the soil? Or maybe it’s okay since it’s still growing and that’ll be where the stump is later down the road but I have no clue. #starfruit #help
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Karambola dropping leaves and branches from bottom and going up... any ideas what would be causing it #help #carambola
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I just repotted this one few weeks back and its's alrdy pushing roots through. Would you repot or just leave it be? #Averrhoa #help #repot
Care Summary for Bilimbi
Bilimbi
Greg recommends:
Water
0.5 cups every 9 days
Placement
< 1ft from a window
Nutrients
Repot after 2x growth
Based on the 4” pot your plant is in, and that it doesn’t get direct sunlight.