[Tilted Irish Kilt]

greeneyes :"I keep my lemon tree kinda root bound, and trim it back periodically so that it will continue to fit in the space that I have to grow it.
I was thinking that maybe it thinks it’s dying and is desperate to reproduce.
Otherwise, there is no reason for it to bloom so prolifically. LOL"

A friend of mine in Ohio has a Wysteria tree for 20 years, and it never flowered , and she couldn't figure out why it never flowered.
I told her that the plant was 'too complacent', and had no stress.
I told her to hit it with a bat, or a 2 X 4 board, about seven or eight times ; that year it flowered profusely for the first time .
Sometimes a little stress is needed to motivate plants to flower ,set fruit , and set seed to reproduce .

[Marcella]

“I told her to hit it with a bat, or a 2 X 4 board, about seven or eight times”

You will now be turned in to the “Plant Endangerment Board”.

[greeneyes]

Well that’s what I have read too, but I guess there is a point when you can have too much of a good or bad thing.LOL

[ApplegateRanch]

Our Extension tree;/orchard agent recommended using a chain for full sized apple trees that refused to bear. “Make it think its going to die without progeny!” Stress works.

[Ellendra]

As I recall, Diana tells people to whack their fruit trees with a rolled-up newspaper :)

[Ellendra]

PS: That stress thing might be why my wild grapes fruited this year when they never have in the 6 years I’ve owned my property. Everything that survived the drought of 2012 would have been stressed by it.