| I need help. I would like to hear from people with actual experience or reasonable opinions and links to informative sites.
I am a retired construction worker who has been moving frequently for years so I read about dwarf fruit trees, but never had a place to try raising my own. Now I have settled down and want to try to raise a few trees.
Several years ago I read some very interesting articles about the Tatura Trellis support system. Now that I can finally try for my self I can only find one paper on how to construct a trellis. I want help in designing a one row system about 10 meters long.
Principal questions:
Since row spacing is not a factor would it not be a more sunlight efficient system if the included angle of the Y was greater than the 60 degrees that is shown in the articles? Maybe even 90 degrees?
Under my conditions, what might be the optimal length for each arm of the Y?
Is there a generally accepted area in sq. meters for the canopy of different fruits? Can each side be narrower and taller to get an equivilent area rather than square?
This leads to the obvious question as to how close can I space my trees?
What is a good wire spacing on each arm, is it the same from bottom to top? Is it based on horizontal separation, vertical separation or just distance on slope?
I realize that these are a lot of questions but I would like very much to have a system that is as pretty as the pictures that I saw in FRUIT GROWERS magazine back in the �80s
I appreciate any help that might be forthcoming.
Lefty Sluder
New Hampshire, USA
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