Potted Meyers are usually easiest to prune if they are on a low plant stand with wheels. Collect the right tools before you start and check to make sure everything is in working order. To prune a small Meyer lemon, you’ll need a sharp pair of pruning shears, a pair of gardening gloves, and perhaps a stepladder if your tree is quite established. These trees can handle significant pruning as long as it is done infrequently.

It is usually easier to let the plant go for a few growing seasons and then select scaffold limbs after a plant has calmed down in growth. Stems grow where they please, and it’s tricky to force them into any sort of pattern. Meyer lemons are usually left as bushy plants. The tree also has a rather compact mature size. This particular citrus tree produces edible fruit that is juicer than standard lemons. These trees can be grown indoors or outside but have the best fruit production when the trees are outdoors for at least a portion of the year (see also ‘ 6 Indoor trees that enjoy low light (and 6 that much prefer the sun)‘). Young trees are either left to their own devices for a few years or carefully trained into a specific shape. Meyer lemon is a dwarf lemon tree variety commonly grown as a potted lemon tree. Learn more about growing lemons How to prune a Meyer lemon tree?

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