In ground, apparently you can dig a hole to uncover the roots to cause the plant to dry out and cause stress to make it flower, but its much easier in pots were you just dont water them Its that cold over here that ive not had a problem with the citrus flowering so ive not tried, but i do have a couple of bears lime trees that have flowered and fruited like a lemon tree , continuously flowered since last june under the growlights, i though they must have been lemontrees miss-labled but they are limes On other fruit trees such as pear,plum and apples it seems normal that if a few years after planting they havent flowered they chop the roots with a spade to stress the plant into flowering!, that sounds a bit drastic to me chopping the roots to cause a plant to flower

Oh, how funny! That's about what would happen to me. The first time I ever planted flowers, I pulled all of them out and left the weeds. :/ Why don't you try planting several seeds the next time and then select the strongest one of them? I hope you will grow yourselves a fine little Key Lime tree before long. Vivian

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Hi, I wrote in a couple of weeks ago, wondering why all the leaves were falling off my new lime tree. I took the very generous advice given to me, but still no luck with the tree. Today, I lifted the plant off the plate it's been sitting on and discovered in some water that had drained off teeny tiny worm-like creatures, pinkish in color. Could they be the source of the tree's ailing? And what do I do now? I want to try to save this tree...It still has some leaves and lots of blossoms! Thanks!