Fruits and Nuts: Meyer Lemon, green leaves falling, 1 by at1a5

at1a5 wrote:
Help! We bought a Meyer Lemon tree back in February 2006. We keep it indoors in a pretty good size pot. Over the first few months, it bloomed wonderfully and fruit started to appear in great numbers. At the first of May we found a couple branches with a small infestation of spider-mites. As a solution, I sprayed the whole plant with a recommended organic floral-based insecticide. The spider-mite problem soon disappeared. Around mid-May, we had two things happen. One, we had about four days worth of unusually high temps for this area, highs at around 95 F and no A/C. The Plant is upstairs and who knows how hot it got indoors here. Two, we noticed about this same time a few leaves started falling. The odd part about this, is that those leaves that fell looked perfectly healthy, big and green. No sign of yellowing or dryness whatsoever. As time passes, it seems leaves are falling in greater numbers. As to the fruit, I noticed about the same time the leaves started falling, the lemons seemed to stop growing as well. Right now we have about eight lemons the size of a thumb. Before the leaves started falling, the fruit was growing at a pretty good rate.

Is this normal for a tree starting to grow fruit? Any ideas on how to mitigate this if it is not normal?
If more information is needed to provide an idea of the cause, let us know. We'll be glad to give more specifics.

Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!!!