This year, however, we've been eating oranges, small ones, to be exact, since September -.

Can Orange Trees Have Ripe Fruit & Flowers at the Same. Apr 12, For that reason, you should strip any fruit a young tree tries to produce the first year or two after planting. Many or all of the flowers will fall off without setting fruit. You only need to Estimated Reading Time: 1 min. Mar 07, ANSWER: You are supposed to remove all of the fruit set on a newly planted citrus tree.

The young tree has limited resources, and it needs to put those into growing roots, stems and leaves Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. Finally, I will also mention that my young grapefruit tree (3 years old), which is nearby, initially had 30 or so immature fruit on it (which I was going to pick off), but has dropped all but one. That was the first tree that exhibited this behavior.

Stormy asked for picture of the entire trees. Here are the two orange trees.