Lemon tree planted three years ago. Does not grow at all. only few flowers but no fruits?

Question

Tried all sorts of fertilizers, any suggestations

Answer 1

Citrus trees are heavy feeders. They will flower and fruit year round IF you regularly fertilize with a good organic product( I bring them in during winter and hand pollinate with a sable brush, just to have the fragrance in the house for winter). They LOVE fertilizer. I have a Meyer lemon that I have had about 3 years, is just 3 feet tall and wide and had 20 fruits on it. I realized it was not setting flowers, fertilized, and within a week, there are buds all over it again along with all the fruit. They are hard workers if treated right.

Answer 2

Unfortunately most lemon trees will only bloom its flowers for the first 10-15 YEARS...then comes the lemons. So you prolly wont see any lemons on the tree for another 7-12 years. Sorry hun.

Answer 3

Do you only have the one tree? I am not familiar with growing citrus but many fruit trees need another tree as a pollinator. are there any bees around to move the pollen from flower to flower?

Answer 4

You may need to try a fertilizer strictly for citrus trees (learned this from a nursery here in my area when we got our meyers lemon trees when we told him about some orange trees that we have). I would recommend contacting the agricultural extension for your county (if in the U.S.) as well to see what they would recommend.

Answer 5

I live in an apartment so I can't have a garden but back at my old house we grew tomatoes, lettuce, eggplant, chili peppers, and pomegranate. We also had a jasmine plant and an Indian Hawthorne. They were beautiful... I really miss my flowers!

Answer 6

some times u can get plant that don't make fruit just the flowers like a flowering cherry we have one it dosn't make any cherries just flowers

Answer 7

Feed it some lemon juice