Fruits and Nuts: Is this the way a Meyer's lemon is supposed to look?, 1 by cindyeo

cindyeo wrote:
Lakeside, the light finally dawned when you asked about the graft. Here's a photo, but I'm not sure if you can see anything. For the first couple years I only got flowers on the original stem. They were always white and the fruit, what little I got, was small. Even though the tree was about 80% on the new branch, I still only got the flowers on the old branch. Finally last year I got flowers all over the tree, but the buds on the new branch were purple, while the ones on the old branch were still white. And I noticed the leaves on the new branch (which today is all the leaves) were much larger than the original leaves. And I had huge thorns. I thought all this was just the tree maturing, but now I think you hit the nail on the head, the fruit I'm getting is from the root stock, right? the original branch has no leaves today, it completely defoliated over the winter, and there's not much of it left, I've pruned a lot of it away. The original stem is the lowest branch.