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Thinning small lemon tree

gardeners26gardeners26 Posts: 8
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I have a small lemon tree in a container. It flowered well and now has many small fruits developing some of which are clustered. The lemons are growing very slowly and there’s little chance they’ll reach a reasonable size by the autumn – doubtless due to the poor summer. Should I remove some of the clustered fruits to enable one lemon to mature fully and would relocating the tree into the greenhouse help?

 





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  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    I don't think anyone recommends thinning citrus, they tend to drop what they can't sustain. The small fruit on yours look dried out so will probably drop soon. The pot looks quite small for so much top growth, what size is it? It wouldn't need to go under cover until the temperatures drop near freezing later in the year. 
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