Tips And Tricks For Pruning Fruit Trees
Most fruit trees will maintain a natural shape that requires little or no pruning. However, since your plant will be container grown more than likely it will need a bit of help from you to keep it's optimal shape.
As with any plant grown under less-than-perfect conditions, light indoors can be a major contributing factor to its growth. This is evident in the plants becoming "leggy" from lack of light or from poor lighting conditions. If this is the case with your plant, prune it.
A sign of this is that you will notice leaves falling off and twigs dying. You will need to prune your plant rather heavily once it has reached this stage in order to rejuvenate it.
Occasional pruning will also help to force branching and bushiness thus hopefully increasing the fruit production.
Learning to grow tropical fruits in containers can be very rewarding and you will find once you have a routine down, very effortless. Getting in the routine is the hardest part. I know you will be glad you did once you try it though.
