The shy-bearing tendency of Sweet lime trees has been observed due to low percentage of perfect flowers and not due to self-incompatibility as reported by some workers. The results of present studies, to induce a higher percentage of perfect flowers have shown that average fruit-set could be increased to 1·39 per cent by bending and ringing the branches and to 2·80 per cent by spraying with IBA 100 ppm, as against 1·09 per cent fruit-set in the control.