Ahhhhh, I wish I still had the label. I've had the plant nearly a year so that's long gone. What do you think about pruning the fruit? They have been there since I bought it and haven't grown a bit. New flowers are blooming so I'm wondering if they will be taking a lot of the nutrients / energy away from the new blooms / fruit. What do you think?

Did you taste the fruit that fell off? Did you scratch the rind and see if you could detect a lime or lemon smell? How about a bruised leaf -- fragrance?

With the bump on the top of the fruit, it doesn't look like any lime I have ever seen.

i dont know anything about citrus ... but is it odd that its flowering while still having the previous crop on the tree .. might that indicate the old fruit should be harvested???

if you decide to remove.. prune/cut them off.. dont try to rip/pull them off ... your tree isnt big enough for that ...

ken

It's such a little guy I'd pick the fruit. Or at least one (for further examination). I don't think it's unusual to still have fruit while blooming.

Do post the label if you still have it. The bump reminds me of tangelo but I'm not familiar with the sorts of citrus popular in SK. It looks really healthy for a tiny potted citrus. I'm a little jealous!

Thai lime can have that bump but it is not consistent and the skin is also bumpy. The leaves are also lobed in Thai lime. Could be some other local variety. In India, we have quite a few lime/lemons/citrus that I have not seen here.

Kimberly: Your first reply just showed up in the feed. Whats up with GW/Houzz?

Flowers are the biggest sink of energy for a plant. But it is hard to stop it altogether. It is just their time now. It is easier to wait till fruitlets are formed and to prune those away. Also you can provide as much light and warmth so the plant can photosynthesize and compensate for it.

I would prune at least one fruit and cut it open and taste it at least. Post photos - others here may be able to identify quickly.

Thank you all for the comments! And, thanks for all being so positive. I don't usually post anything online because I don't want to deal with negative comments and tones. That certainly is not the case here. I love all of the positivity that you all are bringing! I'm going to pick one and see what it's like AND ttake pics for you all while I'm doing it. Be back shortly! :)

OK - Here are the pictures from the cutting. I took the larger of the two off and cut it in half. I did scrape the rind a bit and it was a very fragrant citrus limey scent. After cutting, it smelled wonderful - more of the same type of scent but stronger. The taste of the fruit was very lemony or limey. Very citrus with the tartness of lime juice. I scraped out 4 seeds to look at as well. To note, the blooms have a magnificent scent. Very much like jasmine, citrus, honeysuckle. It travels very far even though they are such small blossoms. So, what do you all think about the pictures now? Any conclusions?

Are the leaves strongly fragrant if you pinch them?

YES! The leaves smell like consentrated Lysol cleaner. Wow!

Thought I'd weigh in as I recently had to identify an unknown citrus plant. One resource that helped was the citrus id page, https://idtools.org/id/citrus/citrusid/ , if you have a ballpark idea of what your plant is, you should be able to compare the leaves to the photos and get an idea. To get in the ballpark I might look into what citrus are more commonly found in the area where you bought it. If you don't want to crush a leaf, sometimes the new growth on a lemon or a lime will have a faint scent, or if you gently touch the new growth and then smell, you can sometimes get a fragrance.

I agree with tropic in thinking it's a rooted cutting. So no worries there. And citrus can take awhile to mature on the plant, with some blooming and fruiting simultaneously.