Lemon

My lemon is blooming. Can I propagate it with a small brush ?
It has been in the house all winter and I'm starting to move it outside during the warm days.

I don't know why you couldn't - botanists do it all the time - what do you have to lose! If you decide to do it, let us know how it went. You might consider labeling the blossoms you pollinate, so you will know if insects did it or you did, when the fruit appears.

I did brush it buy I could not see any pollen ?
The weather has warmed for a couple of days, I moved it outside during the day and to my amusement I saw a honey bee on the flower...it now has a small fruit forming.
I must grow some early blooming flowers of some kind.

How is your citrus?

Last winter my navel orange started blooming indoors. I took a small soft sable paintbrush and dabbed the center of each flower with it, passing the pollen around the plant to each bloom. I had many many many fruits form on the thing, but at the end only 4 were left on the plant to grow to full size. I have had the plant for years but it only blooms indoors in late fall/winter. So I cannot leave it outside to be pollinated naturally.

Update, One lemon did mature, I picked it two weeks ago but haven't eaten it yet.
It put on two flowers after I brought it inside August, they are open slowly and I will try to pollinate then when the open completely.
This is a pic of the lemon taken before I brought it in this year. I also have an orange and a Key lime, in the background.
I'm in south Florida right now and will return in a week or so. My son=in=law is taking care of everything till I return.

Thanks for the update! :)