The name 'Apostolika' is a general term for seedlings of fair quality. Wild types as a group are called 'Agria'. In a planting of female trees, one male should be included for every 25 or 30 females. In southern Europe, branches from male trees are grafted onto some of the females in an orchard instead of interplanting male trees. The carob is slightly hardier than the sweet orange.
Young trees suffer frost damage.
Frost during the blooming period will reduce or prevent fruit-set. The tree does best in a Mediterranean-type climate with cool, not cold, winters, mild to warm springs, and warm to hot summers with little or no rain. The pods should not be exposed to rain or heavy dew after they have turned brown and developed a high sugar content. Wet pods ferment quickly. The tree flourishes in widely divergent soils, from rocky hillsides to deep sand or heavy loam, but must have good drainage.