How many apple trees per acre?

Apple Tree - types of fruit trees. Apple orchards with standard 20 to 30 foot spacing produce between 20,000 and 30,000 apples per acre. Recent high-density plantings of 500 trees per acre in comparison double production. Proprietary growing and pruning methods developed by Tree Plantation can double that again to over 100,000 apples per acre. read more

Orchards planted before the 1960s often had only 40 trees per acre and were spaced 40 feet by 40 feet. With good pruning, standard size trees can be planted at about 26 feet x 20 feet with 84 trees per acre; these trees will attain a height of about 24 feet. read more

Though in many European orchards the number of trees per acre is set at 5,000 trees or more, in the US the apple tree density starts at 450-485 trees per acre with a maximum of 1,100 trees/acre. This is a recommended number for the dwarf apple trees. The tree density for normal size apple trees is 60 to 80 per acre. read more