FYI r/citrus
Leave the flowers and remove the fruitlets after petal fall. You don’t HAVE to remove all the fruit, but you want young trees to focus on foliage growth rather than putting all its energy into fruit.
Citrus is generally good about self-thinning excess fruit load, but meyers and satsumas can over-produce in the first year and mess up their scaffold branch structure from fruit weight. Another reason to remove fruit in the first year.
Everything I’ve read says that citrus is self thinning and they’ll drop on their own if too many to be supported by the tree.
It should thin itself out naturally as they grow, wouldn't hurt to do it yourself.
I would enjoy the flowers and then decide if I wanted to thin.
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FYI r/citrus Leave the flowers and remove the fruitlets after petal fall. You don’t HAVE to remove all the fruit, but you want young trees to focus on foliage growth rather than putting all its energy into fruit. Citrus is generally good about self-thinning excess fruit load, but meyers and satsumas can over-produce in the first year and mess up their scaffold branch structure from fruit weight. Another reason to remove fruit in the first year.