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The attractive drive to Sibetan winds through palm-leaf fenced rice fields, flowering teak, fragrant clove trees, and plenty of snakeskin-like ’salak’. Since 1950 Sibetan has been the ’salak’ center of Bali, hundreds of hectares planted of this low, thorny palm. The area ’salaks’ are known for their crisp, sweet taste, somewhere between apples and strawberries. Price depends on grade.
It requires three to four years of intensive tending for the three-meter-high trees to bear fruit. Pruning plants that have grown too tall and heaping soil around the stalk improves productivity. Planted among coconuts to provide shade, each plant yields from 40 to 50 fruit annually. Since the trees are planted close together, harvesters must crouch between the thorny branches to reach the fruit. The main season for ’salak’ is December through February. From October through November, trees bear smaller fruits, called ‘gadon’, which are more expensive because they’re available so early in the season.
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