Linda, I am afraid that I have tried many applications of Meyers and never like the result, in complete contradiction to John and many others to me anything that has a Meyer in it would be better with a traditional lemon. Meyers have a "dirty" taste most of the time and at best have a weak orange flavor. I cannot tolerate drinking anything with Meyer in it, or any fresh application. I have made cakes, curds, pies, lemonades, fish with lemons cooked or grilled on top, etc with Meyers and never particularly like the result, though cooked they are more tolerable then anything with the fresh juice. However I had to toss out the salmon I made as the orange undertone flavor was awful. I just tried a jar of preserved lemons I made with Meyers and they were very bland compared to traditional preserved lemons. I keep trying to like them but I haven't found anything I prefer with them in it yet, mostly just things I find less offensive. I used to cook professionally and used Meyers pretty consistently in many applications and still never cared for them (same with kumquats though I REALLY don't like Kumquats and don't even want to try them in things anymore). I am pretty sure I am a traditional lemon kind of girl, which means more Meyers for the rest of you that like them! ;) Also I agree that its likely that your rootstock is taking over, cut off any branches that have different fruit and take note if the leaves look different in any way to your orange, that way you can identify it earlier and remove branches before they fruit and steal energy away from your oranges. Take pictures so if it happens again years from now you won't be struggling to remember what they looked like. Its likely that your neighbor had a tree whos scion died back/was taken over by its root stock at some point. If your friendly with them and they are the ones that planted the tree ask them what kind of tree it was when they planted it and if it changed at any point. If they didn't plant it they may not know. If you show us a picture of the tree we could help you figure out when to prune it.

Well, I don't think the "10%" rule is true, Andrew, but certainly citrus will produce more fruit than they can support for sure :-) As John has mentioned, it's a young tree, it's in a container, and it's not at all unusual for a young tree to drop all it's fruit. It is trying to develop its canopy, and most young citrus trees know to drop fruit in favor of canopy development. Scott, if you'd post a few photos of your tree, plus let us know more specifics - potting medium, amount of water the tree is receiving, how often you are fertilizing the tree and with what, that will help us to give you a more certain answer. Patty S.

In my experience the last one that I could grow without difficulty is the "meyer"..lol Some have no problem at all...Wierd, right? But as Mksmth said which is great, definately learn about the "MIXES" first, and then all the other things about cultural needs. The biggest culprit for death of citrus is root rot. Make sure you have your good fertilizer, mix, good containers with drainage holes, good light, and this site at your hands. For me, the easiest to grow when I began was the "calmondin", the "oro blanco", and 'Ponderosa lemon".. The "calamondin" would grow wonderful for me even with a little sun all winter then great in full time summer sun. The "oro blnco" was one that held on to it's leaves and always stayed green, no matter what conditions it has been reasonably subjected to, and the "ponderos", well, a slow grower, but constantly blooming, but boy they hardy as weeds...lol. And Mksmth is right on this too. Once you start, there is no stopping buying trees, especially from where you plan on getting them..lol Good luck and great to have you!

Almost all sweet oranges, true grapefruit, lemons, limes, pure mandarins (other than King and Clementine), most tangelos, hybrid tangerines and tangors (except temple) come true from seed. Most pummelos do not. Your blood oranges and lemons will be true from seed. While most grapefruit come true from seed, those types with pigmented flesh, but white albedo, (eq. Thompson Seedless & Burgundy) don't. They produce seedlings which are Marsh Seedless (white). Pink and red grapefruit which have at least some blush of pink in the albedo will come true to type. Silica