After 3 years of trying, I finally got my lemon tree to produce fruit

I moved into a house in Mission Viejo back in 2020 and the backyard had this sad little Meyer lemon tree that never did anything. Last summer I started reading up on citrus care and found out I was watering it wrong the whole time. I switched to deep watering once a week instead of little sprinkles every day. Then I added some citrus fertilizer from the nursery over on El Toro Road in March this year. Last week I walked out back and spotted three little green lemons starting to grow on the branches. I almost didn't believe it at first so I called my neighbor over to check and she confirmed they were real. Has anyone else had a stubborn fruit tree that finally came around after you changed something small?

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dakota_murphy901mo ago

Nah, overwatering isn't usually the main issue with lemons in our climate.

sethmartinez1mo ago

That Meyer lemon tree sounds just like my dwarf avocado tree in Laguna Niguel, I babied it for two years with zero fruit then stopped watering it so much and bam, five little avocados showed up this spring.