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Okay, so I transplanted a grafted Tangelo tree recently. After transplant tree should nice growth,and even flowered after two weeks in the ground . The flowers quickly turned into small fruits . Where they appeared to grow for another week or so. Then the fruits started turning colors(orange) and then fell off! When the fruit fell off it wasn't much bigger than an eraser on a school
pencil. Anybody know why this would happen?
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Stress most likely. Transplanting messes with the root system and citrus trees are very prone to dropping young fruit under stress: moving, drought, too many fruits, etc.
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Grafted trees will flower and fruit much faster than seed grown, but it is not unusual at all for a first-time flowering tree to not make a single fruit the first time it flowers. Has happened many times with my first time flowering trees. But it is a good sign because usually the next season you will have fruit. This happened with my finger lime tree. It produced flowers and tiny fruits shortly after I got it, but then all the fruit fell off. Following year however, it it producing tons of finger limes!
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You've got nothing to worry about. Better your little tree sacrifice this crop, stretch its roots and grow.
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I agree with MNG. No worry. Our Tangello lost it's first fruit too. The last few years we can barely keep up wi the ripening fruit. It takes a while for trees to get comfy. One day you'll look back at this year's disappointing harvest and chuckle as you sip the best OJ you ever tasted!
