You will not get fruit without pollination.

Jim. That's not true at all. In fact almost all citrus are self fruiting.

mksmth, my experience is with a lime, it was indoors, but would not set fruit without my intervention. I tried: fan, paint brush, picking a flower and yadayadayada.

i think of self fruiting as not requiring an additional plant.

If the pollen from one flower is not transmitted to the stigma of another flower there is no pollination.

edited to add, what worked was a fan, paint brush and manual touching.

What type of lime? All my citrus including bearrs and key lime are in the greenhouse during bloom with no pollinators. I get a good fruit set every year without doing anything. There are several people here who get fruit set indoors doing nothing to help the trees either. Maybe your lime just had a bad flowers.

My lime is a bearss dwarf. The tree has been in my care for over 30 years, for 5 years, the tree lived inside.

the tree now lives outside, bees and ants and wind now move the pollen to the stigma.

my lime will drop excess fruit. I will get clusters of 3-6 berries, most of them will drop, I think it is self pruning.

mksmith, your citrus is being pollinated, there is no immaculate pollination, I don't know how your citrus is being pollinated. Wind/air movement is a pollinator. Tomato growers often depend on air pollination. I wonder if you are confusing self fruiting with pollination.

mksmith is correct, self pollinating citrus require no intervention from humans, insects or wind to set a crop of fruit. All commonly grown limes are self pollinating and will set fruit without any assistance. - Silica

jim. I realize there is no immaculate pollination. What I mean is with citrus one single flower will pollinate itself without yours or anything elses help. Especially a meyer. You shouldnt have to help your tree pollinate as Silica mentioned above. Now there are some Mandarins that need another variety of tree to set a good crop.

You only need pollinators, if you want seeds. No bees, no seeds.

johnmerr, even if I just leave the flowers on the fruit end up falling off at a tiny stage. They don't stay on the tree.

Anything I can do to prevent this from happening? I am also just really surprised by the number of flowers. It concerns me.

Post a photo; your tree may be under fed, or have a mineral imbalance. Most citrus trees will drop fruit they cannot support. Of course it is always possible that you have a genetic mutation that means you have a sterile tree.

Jon, citrus trees produce many times the amount of flowers then will ever eventually set fruit. Only 1 to 3 percent of the flowers produced by a citrus tree results in fruit. If every flower developed into a fruit the tree would be crushed under its own weight. Even the small fruitlets that are originally set,, most will be discarded by the tree. Only the amount of fruit hat the tree is capable of bringing to maturity are retained. - Sillca

Thanks guys. Will post a photo next week as I plucked some flowers before I posted this and want you to see what it really looks like...

My lemon tree in the ground one year. I believe it was a five gallon.

Note the amount of flowers. Some open some not.

i will only let it retain 2-3 fruit, until more mature.

What John said about you only need to pollinate if you want seeds is true enough to be a general rule. One exception is minneola tangelo. Those trees don't like to produce reliably without pollenation. Even with it they still sometimes don't want to produce reliably. It's such a commercial problem that universities have done studies trying to understand why it's an exception to the rule.

How many flowers is kinda irrelevant. It won't keep them all anyway. If anything enjoy the beauty and smell.

Here's a photo taken today of one of my garden Meyers' fruit set; of course it won't keep them all, but it will keep a lot of them. On a mature tree, well cared for a cluster like that will typically result in 5-7 fruits at maturity.

Forgot to attach the photo?

Dan... couldn't make it post here; check my thread, "How many fruits is too many?" the photo is there.

I saw it Mr John, decent tree

How is your tree now? I just got mine and it was helpful to read the advice. Any lessons learned to share?