It would help to see a foto to see how big/strong is the tree. If it has only 3, they may get to be around 4-5 ozs. If they are all on one branch you might want to take off at least one. Meyers are prodigious producers and the little limbs will support much more than you would believe; but like all citrus they are self thinning; i.e., they will drop any fruit the tree cannot support. The problem with Meyers in the first few years is that if you don't take off at least part of the fruit, the tree will not grow..it will just make fruit. Note... the size of the plant has little to do with the size of the fruit; I have seen lemon bonsai trees with fruit larger than the tree.

they can get a little bigger. the fruit can get heavy enough to weigh down a young tree.

Meyer branches are very flexible. When the harvest is heaviest (late winter/early spring), the branches of my younger Meyers look like 'weeping willows', they're so heavily weighted down with fruit.

As it gets older, the branches thicken up and stay more horizontal.

Size/shape of fruit is variable with Improved Meyers, as is skin thickness.

Jerry,

Don't remove them. My first citrus was a Meyer and it did the same thing. The fruit just bent the branches down until the fruit was literally below the rim of the container. The lemons got the size of tennis balls. That tree still does the same thing. No broken branches yet.

Cheers,
DL

Typical Calif. Meyer at 3 years on dwarf rootstock.

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The thing is, if you leave all the fruit at this age, in 5 years it will still be producing that amount every year... and the tree will still be the same size; to encourage the tree to grow...if that's what you want... you have to take off some of the fruit when it is young.

Thanks for all your comments. The three lemons are all on different branches and nicely positioned around the tree. So I will just leave them on and see what happens. If someone can advise me on how to post a picture on this forum, I will happy to post one.

Thanks again,

Jerry

Hi All,

I need some Meyer lemon assistance. I received a dwarf tree in the spring from QVC thru mycitrustree(dot) com. I had some beautiful blossoms in the summer and now have 2 lemons about 3 inches and 3 1/2 long. It was kept outside and watered as needed in addition to Mother Nature. I live in NJ and it was about to dip into the 40's one night so I brought it into my basement two weeks ago.

I watered it before I brought it in and it got a soaking rain too. It's in a pot with drain access and it still moist. It has also now begun to bud on all end branch A LOT. My original question is some random leaves are turning yellow. They are not dry or curling and have no pests. The leaf veins are also not turning white.

I am a nervous first time fruit tree mother. I did not give any fertilizer since I received it in the spring.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

Barbara-Ann

Barbara, you should post this question in a new thread. In it also include a pic of your tree, what medium it is potted in, and what you've used to fertilize (although you said you had not). That is a problem. Your tree is probably very deficient. Start a new thread. When you add a question to an old thread, it often does not get noticed or answered.