Young lemon tree with lots of fruit in a backyard - Westend61/Getty Images Citrus trees are generous growers, often producing an abundance of fruit beyond what their young branches can handle. While ...

Q: My Meyer lemon tree this year has hundreds of buds and flowers. Many on the same the branch or twig. Should I remove some of them, so I have fewer but larger lemons? A: No thinning of the flowers.

Effective pruning also maintains a healthy and vibrant tree, boosts fruit production, and protects against pests and diseases ...

Those of us who have fruit trees have been enjoying their beautiful flowers for the last few weeks. Now that there’s piles of pink petals all over the ground, it’s time to think about thinning that ...

I have planted some cleome seeds in small cell packs. A good many have sprouted, but most of the cell packs have more than one seed growing. Some are very close together. Should I thin so that there ...