Okay, this will be a no brainer for the experts, but not so obvious to me. My established lemon tree that my house came with has always produced two crops each year (winter and summer). When I first started planting new citrus trees that were a couple of years old, I always had one crop each winter and that was it. Now that the trees are older and currently loaded with fruit, they all have new blossoms with what I expect to be a summer crop. Now it could be an issue of me not doing that great of a job with the trees until joining this group, but I was also wondering if this might be a typical pattern where juvenile trees will just yield a single crop each year, but as they get older they produce multiple crops. Is this what everyone else experiences?

Phillip

My lemon --now in the fifth growing season--has never bloomed except in the spring--last year was the first fruit.

Coastal lemons in California blooming peak production is in March with minor peaks in June and August. - Millet

I have lemon blooms and have fruits practically every month of the entire year, but my peak fruit production are from November to March, with a small peak in June to July. The rest of the months, the lemons produces just enough for family consumption. That's in the inland Sacramento Valley.

Commercially, the peak production in interior valley sections is generally in December with minor secondary peaks in March and May. - Millet

Was hoping to get nice lemon production year round by experimenting various techniques. But after my Calamondin grew to mature size and gave me consistent production year round (still has about three peak months of harvest that I would have excess for wine making), and can adequately supply all the Filipino friends year round demand of Calamondin fruits, I gave up on the idea of experimenting on my lemons. Besides, Calamondins are often better to use in most of our recipes than lemons. But I do love lemons and they are fantastic with their own US and Italian recipes.

I have second blooms on some of my other citruses, but those minor blooms produces lousy crops, I simply pluck out the blooms and use them to make my sugars aromatic.

Quick Karl - The bloom usage that Joe is talking about is with his wine making.- Millet