Young Trees Dropping Fruit
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Fruit Growing
I have a few citrus fruit trees about three years old. They have made a
good growth and are between seven and eight feet high with a good shaped
top or head. I did not expect any fruit last year and did not have any.
This spring they blossomed irregularly at blooming time, but quite an
amount of fruit set and grew as large as marbles, some of it the size of
a walnut, but lately it has about all fallen off the trees.
There is always more or less dropping from fruit trees. Some years large
numbers of oranges drop. There may be many causes, and the trouble has
thus far not been found preventable. When the foliage is good and the
anything. It is rather more likely that fruit is dropped by the young
fruit-setting. It is, of course, possible that you have been forcing
such action by too free use of water. You will do well to let your trees