as am in the middle of growing new apple trees and re shaping older ones, how high do people have the canopies of fruit trees?? i dont want them too high so they take out lots of light but not to small so that i dont get fruit...
some on a plit near me are pretty tall but its that haigh that even with a ladder most of the apples are unreachable.
Hi adam
The ones down are plots are about 13'
It depends very much on what rootstock you've used, and what you want to end up with. I'm finding that half-standard apples (with the first fork at about waist height) grown on MM106 rootstock are about what I want, but then I have space for a lot of trees that size. If you have less space, bushes grown on M26 might be more suitable. The old-style standard fruit trees are so big, and produce so much fruit when mature, that they really won't suit many people.
guessing its on your bog standard root stcock M27 is it?