i have an indoor kumquat and it was flowering a couple of weeks ago. when the flowers started to drop their petals to reveal young fruit, the leftover buds that havent bloomed yet started falling off. now some of the leaves and new fruit are falling off. there seem to be little leaves growing where the buds and fruit are falling off, whats going on with my kumquat?
Concerning your flower drop. Citrus trees produce far more flowers than they can mature into a crop. If only 10 percent of the flowers became fruit, a single tree might produce over 10,000 fruits! Citrus trees have evolved control mechanisms using the process of abscission (fruit drop) to reduce crop load. Only 0.5 to 2 percent of citrus flowers ever remain and mature into a harvestable fruit. This is known as post bloom drop. During post bloom drop, nearly 98 percent of the flowers and young fruitlets abscise. The natural drop removes weak or defective flowers and fruit. As far as your kumquats leaves dropping, this could be normal, especially at this time of the year, or the leaf drop could foretell a problem, if so probably in the soil. - Millet
