This is my first posting on the site but have to say that I've found a lot of useful information on your site. Here in Canada the winters would kill just about any of the tropical plants that i have an interest in so therefore I am pretty limited to indoor gardening (I live in an apartment anyway). I picked up a Meyer lemon tree early this spring and it is doing great! Misting everyday or every other day really does help a lot I have noticed. But my question is: 1) Should I be bracing the branches with multiple lemons growing on them? One in particular has three decent sized lemons on it and it is hanging pretty low. 2) Should I be limiting the amount of lemons that are growing on each branch? 3) I have some oddly located branches growing that I plan to prune in the spring next year, anybody have a grafting/cutting procedure to grow these into new plants? Everyone that participates here helps to run a great site and I look forward to your help, and in the future i may even be able to help someone out too! THANKS Cody
Removal of fruit from a really small tree is probably a good idea. Whether to do so on a larger tree, I believe, comes down to personal choice. Fruit thinning will redirect the tree's resources towards other areas of development. Lemon tree cuttings are easy to root. You can use the method I described in the thread Propagating a shrub - help needed... | UBC Botanical Garden Forums.
