canopy heights?

[adam04]

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.

[adam04]

[TEL]

Hi adam
The ones down are plots are about 13'

[Robert_Brenchley]

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.

[adam04]

guessing its on your bog standard root stcock M27 is it?