Anatomie of a flower ??'s

[Susanne42]

I noticed on some of my flowers (meyer. lemonquat ) that they are missing the stigma. Is there a reason for it? missing nutrition? normal because time of the year?

[Millet]

Susanne incomplete flowers are very common.   T Each flower on the tree competes for the available nutrition with every other flower on the tree. Some flowers are winners and some flowers are losers.  Increasing fertilization will not change the situation.  It is a common situation of nature. Incomplete flowers  also seem to happen more often in young trees, and lessens as the tree ages.  Normally the complete flowers on the tree greatly outnumber those that do not completely fill out.  Not to worry.

[Susanne42]

Thank you Millet

[Tom]

Thanks for the excellent explanation of incomplete flowers. I wonder if it has anything to do with the enormous number of blooms that smell so good ? I think the tremendous bloom Meyer shows and the wonderful smell is what pushed me over the edge with my addiction to trying to grow citrus !!! Tom