Jason Nece

Marco and Wayne, thanks for the additional information.  I will be sure to feed it more.  Since I am on a second floor balcony I can not put it outside for more sun.  If I did take it down stairs it would be stolen within an hour for sure.  Nice area and all.  I may go buy some grow lights to give it additional sun light.  I imagine in the winter I will need the lights anyway when I bring the tree inside.  Thanks again, huge help.

Thank you Rebecca and Jessica for your responses I truly appreciate the comments.  My lemon tree is currently under a balcony which does limit the amount of sun since the balcony faces east and the sun is above the house fairly early in the day as Rebecca mentioned.  So the search starts for ways to get light to my tree.  I will keep the fruit propped up with the hope of harvesting and then prune after as you mentioned Jessica.

The little shoot coming out (3rd image) of the side, is that the start of a branch or something else?  Yeah, I am this new to gardening and trees.  

Thanks again for your comments.  

Hello, from Topeka, KS.  I am currently trying to keep healthy a meyer lemon tree which I purchased in March, 2016.  The issue I have is all of the others I have seen are very bush like and have a far more extensive branch system than the one I have. I am new to this and not sure what to do to keep my tree healthy.

I have attached a few images.  One shows a sprout coming out about 2' up from the soil.  The others are just tree shots.  Poor thing looks like the branch will break because of how heavy the fruit on the end is.  I am not sure if I should cut those off (or where to) so I just hold them up with some para cord.

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.  The tree gets morning sun and southern exposure under the balcony.