Patio fruit trees

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Can these be taken out of the pots and grown as cordons? And if they could would they get taller planted in open ground given more of a root run?

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[jennym]

Haven't done this with specific trees sold as patio trees. I reckon that a lot depends on how long the tree has been in the pot as to how vigorously it'd grow in the open ground.
If you've had a tree in a pot for ten years, say, it would have quite a constricted root system, and would take a while to get going. I'd guess that the tree would be on a suitable dwarfing rootstock if sold as a patio tree.
The pruning of it may take some considerable time to get it into a cordon form too, depending again on how it's been pruned in the pot.

[kt.]

Can these be taken out of the pots and grown as cordons? And if they could would they get taller planted in open ground given more of a root run?

Yes they can and yes they will.  I have just spent the past 2 hours looking at this topic on the internet on cherry trees. The trees would eventually reach their maximum height if not pruned and given ground to do so. I have just opted for a Dwarf Stella cherry tree which I will be putting in a pot. Maximum height is 7ft.

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Excellent, thank you. Next project  in the pipeline ;D ;D