ONE BIG RIPE LANGKA

Finally, after four months of waiting…we have already harvested the first ever langka that came from our very own tree! Imagine that! In fact, I could not even remember anymore when the langka was first planted but I guess it was already there when the hubby and Kuya Ric constructed the fence sometime March of this year. Then, at around August (I think) we began to see some semblance of a real fruit coming out. You see, prior to that, we have already been seeing small bits of langka fruit but it only reaches the size of a normal fist before it would suddenly fall to the ground, all black and withered. But around the third week of August we already saw some that reached the size of an open palmed hand. And when it still hasn’t fallen to the ground after a few more days, we were finally convinced that these were real fruits this time. One tree had as much as five fruits in all while the other one had only about two. Our first harvested fruit came from that tree (the one on the left side) that only bore two fruits but boy oh boy those two langka fruits were huge…and I mean huge! I don’t think I would be able to lift it even if I tried… just check out the pics! What’s even great about our langka, even if they were so big, they were still quite sweet…I guess it was also because the fruit was ‘hinog sa puno’. Now, our only problem would be what to do with all the langka??? Of course, we could only use so much for paladusdos and minatamisan…? Maybe, we could give some to our neighbors and the others bring home to our province and give to the hubby’s sister who cooks puto, biko, espasol and other kakanin for a living…but definitely, I am quite sure not an inch of this fruit would go to waste, after all many in our family love this fruit and could eat it as is after picking out the flesh with our bare hands! Ohhh, thank God He blessed our tree with so much fruit…I hope the tree won’t make ‘tampo’ and just continue bearing this much fruit for many many years to come!