Did You Know

[Millet]

A citrus fruit receives 100 percent of all its required nutrients, (energy, light, proteins, etc). to enable it to grow into a mature, healthy, high quality fruit, from only its 3 or 4 closest leaves. - Millet.

[karpes]

Millet
Closest leaves, would that mean new flushes at the end of the branch stems?

[Millet]

Karl, Sorry I don't know the answer to that. However, Dr. Manners thinks that research was done with terminal fruit, so all leaves would have been beneath the fruit (trunk side). - Millet