well... the whole idea of dwarf fruit trees is they produce very young, like the next
year after you plant them = precocious.
you can control them, spray them, prune and pick them without a ladder.
they produce less on each tree, and the idea is to get trees with fruit ripens at
different times to spread your "take" out over a longer season.
it is even possible to have them in cages to keep the critters out, have fine netting
around them to keep the moths and other bugs off them so much less spraying.
Ingrid

"Zootal" nousenetspam at dead ice dot us wrote:

Thanks to all that responded. My trees were purchased at costco, and consist
of 2 cherries, 2 pears, 2 apricots, 2 peaches, 3 apples, 2 plums...and I'm
missing something but there were 13-14 trees, all semi-dwarf. I read
somewhere to put them 10-15 feet apart also, so I settled on 12 feet because
they fit better into the space I wanted to put them - I have a *huge* apple
tree that dominates a good chunk of my yard.

BTW, how big can apple trees get? This thing is huge - trunk about 3 feet
diameter, branch spread about...um...30+ feet or so. And each year it drops
a bazillion apples. Which cause me to ask - what was I thinking when I
bought 3 more apple trees? :P


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