I was out thinning and pruning back some of the long whippy growth on some of my trees and thought I’d snap a few pictures. Some of the more mature trees had over 2ft of new growth, I try not to let the trees get any taller than 8ft. For the most part my orchard is doing great, there have been a couple of failures though. A couple of apricot/apriums fizzled out and died. It seems like every year I lose a 'cot, for some reason they just don’t do very well here…On to the pics
Newly planted Candy Heart Pluerry has almost a foot of new growth
3 year in the ground Sweet Treat Pluerry pruned back to 7ft, Burgundy is to the right, it was lopsided and had aphid damage and was cut back severely to a little over 4ft. both trees were planted the same day, same caliper, same rootstock.
6 1/2 year in the ground Flavor Supreme Pluot pruned back to 7 1/2ft
Flavor Supremes!! about cherry size, the tree is loaded even though I probably spent less than 5 min hand pollinating
Newly planted Summer Delight aprium leafing out nicely
6 year in the ground Lapins Cherry 8ft tall
4 year in the ground Flavor King pluot pruned to 8ft- off my back deck
4 year in the ground Dapple Dandy pluot pruned to 8ft- off my back deck
A few pics trying to get the whole orchard/ mini forest 50’x100’
I figured I’d plant just a few and let them get big, then I found out about backyard orchard culture. Now here I am 6+ years and almost 100 trees later 
