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Meyer lemon tree growth

8 years ago

Growing a Meyer lemon in a pot for 6 months, going well looks great, wanted the tree to focus on growth so I left one lemon on. Now I left the flower blooms on and then about 30 lemons formed and I ripped them off. My question is I have been ripper the buds and blooms off every 7-8 days. Someone said leave it until the flower falls off then remove the little lemon. I want to focus on tree growth and wouldn't that make the tree focus on the fruit more???

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John W
Original Author
8 years ago
there it is. Now the leaves have always been curly, people said more water then the leaves turned yellow, and it's growing great so I'm not worried about it. It goes outside in the morning now so hoping that lemon starts turning yellow!
johnmerr
8 years ago
Leaving the flowers until they fall and make fruit seems like it would take "growth energy" from your tree; but cutting the flowers will take more, as the tree will just try to make more flowers. You can play with letting the fruits get to pea size before cutting them and/or cutting most fruits and leaving a few to get a bit bigger. It's really a balancing act, especially for a container Meyer; feed it more to keep it healthy, and it will tend to make more flowers/fruits; feed it less, it will suffer and not grow. Typically you get flowers, then fruits, and then growth begins.
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