Higgs Boson wrote:
Last year my beloved little tree finally bore TWELVE heavenly oranges
- taste out of this world!

This year it has only TWO! Gardener thinks it's one year on, one year
off.
But does he *know?*

Any experience out there? I tried a Web search, but the only thing I
found was that it needs to be pollinated. Thanks a lot!

I guess those two new fruits got pollinated somehow; I didn't notice.
Just found ONE new bloom.

So is it annual or biennial? If annual, what am I doing wrong? I'm
giving it adequate food, water and She is giving it sunshine.

If biennial, why those 2-1/2 volunteers?

This is So. Calif coastal.

Thanks for any enlightenment.

HB

It is neither annual (growing for one year) nor biennial (growing for two
years) but a perennial (growing for many years). It is the case though that
some fruit trees have a cycle where they fruit well in some years and not in
others. AFAIK there is nothing you can do about that other than keep the
tree healthy and growing well.

D