I saw some cute little lemon trees at home depot and told my kids I wanted one for my birthday in May. To my surprise I found this beautiful, huge tree on my desk with a bow. From all I've been reading here and on other sites I'm attempting to take good care of this truly magnificent tree.

The tree sits on a table in my office in the window. It is a nice warm spot especially in the afternoon when the sun comes over and the heat hits the front of my building. Every other day I take it outside and let it soak up the direct sun. On those days, I flood it with water until it runs out. I have no pan under it so it gets good drainage but worry its too dry (I'm terrible for overwatering things - hey my second bonsai tree is doing great and I'm sure I overwater it).

We have an office cat who discovered the dirt and likes to fling it all over the place so each night when I leave I now cover the top of the pot so he does not have access to it. And NO he has not used it as a litter box - yet anyway.

It is in full bloom now and smells so sweet in my office. I am in love with this tree and don't want to kill it. The small tiny fruits are falling off. Nearly all the yellow leaves that were on it have dropped off. I wondered maybe I shouldn't be moving it around so much. A customer came in and saw it and told me that unless I trimmed off some of the branches, all the lemons would fall off. I did trim off one wild looking small branch but the last time someone told me to 'trim' I killed it.

The tree is loaded with green lemons which seem to be holding on. However, new ones are falling off which after reading here says that's normal. I didn't think about fertilizer - should I do that or did it come to me fertilized enough? Any advice is helpful