Semi Dwarf fruit tree spacing

 I have about a dozen "semi-dwarf" fruit trees, each planted 12 feet apart.
Does anyone have experience with such trees? Did I plant them too close
together?

Also, when initially planting them as bare root trees, how severely should
they be pruned? And once they start to bud out, is it too late to prune
them?

 On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:27:51 -0800, "Zootal" <nousenetspam at dead ice
dot us> wrote:


This ought to help out.  You may want to do a search on fruit trees in
your state.  This should be consistent across most of North America:

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/ag30.html

By this, the trees should be 20 to 25 feet apart.  First year is
recommended to prune to three sprigs.

Thunder

 

An interesting article, but it didn't specifically address semi-dwarf trees
(are peach trees assumed to be semi-dwarfs?)

 <nousenetspam at dead ice dot us> says...

 http://www.davewilson.com/homegrown/BOC_what-is.html

 http://www.davewilson.com/homegrown/hidensity.html

        Bill
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 I think this Dave Wilson Nursury is way out of line with their recommendations.
Dwarfing rootstock IS the best way to control tree size.  Excessive pruning as
he
suggests results in a butchered tree with no shape and much retarded fruit
production.

                                      Sherwin D.

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