I don't know how many will set fruit, but I have blooms from 12 different varieties--most on my grafts on the Lisbon lemon. There I have calamondin, grapefruit, page, ponkan, 2 satsumas, and Lemon. I hope I get fruit on most of those, but most of these have less than a dozen flowers.

Before I bought my house the previous owner wasn't taking care of the trees. This Valencia tree is older than the rest and it is very happy that I started taking care of it. There's hundreds of blossoms on it.....




All my other trees are very young (bought them about 6 months ago in 5 gallon pots) and they are still held up with stakes since their trunks are still very narrow. These varieties are blooming... Cara Cara, Midknight Valencia, Bearrs Lime, Eureka Lemon, Nagami, Meiwa, and Midknight Valencia. No blossoms on the Kishu but it did have fruit when i bought it.

My question is one of the trees (no photo yet), has blossoms covering the whole tree. It's the little 5 gallon Cara Cara. Isn't there the danger of the weight of the future fruit breaking branches or worse? I was also thinking of thinning some of the blossoms so it'd put more energy in getting bigger instead of producing fruit.[/img]

Citrus trees thin themselves for the most part-- In some cases varieties taht are prone to alternate bearing need manual thinning to reduce the alternate bearing.

Thanks Skeeter. I here's a picture of my Cara Cara. Should I leave this tree alone or pick off some blossoms? I'm worried about branches that may break when the fruit gets big.

Nice! It is up to you whether to remove fruit to encourage growth, or let it bear whatever it can carry. Since it is a young tree, many people choose growth, but in any case the tree will drop over 98% of the flowers and fruitlets.

Well, I have lost all fruit on the calamondin and the Minneola Tangelo, both had less than a half dozen flowers. However, I still have fruit on several grafts that had only 1 or 2 flowers and they have past the first step in setting-- they dropped the pistal stem. I only had between 30 or 40 blooms on my Ponkan mandarin, but so far it looks like a lot of them are setting. The Lisbon lemon is going to be loaded again and it still has about a dozen fruit!