LOL - you are ridiculous! I’m not sure how much of what you said was joking, but I’m now more curious about your setup and plans!
You have 50’x50’ and about 15 trees?
What are they? I think certain trees are happier/less happy at close spacing. Also, for some rootstock matters.
It is also important the amount of work you are willing to put in pruning and spraying.
I feel like reading through this thread some common themes are:
- wishing for more spacing to get equipment through and avoid disease (especially in humid places)
- people wishing they’d planned for critter invasion/ fruit stealing/fencing/baffles/weeds
- wishing they’d kept trees shorter to avoid ladders
- picking/trying the wrong things for their area (or not trying enough things!) I’ve read both!
I wanted to be able to drive my riding mower between my trees; I use it to pull a cart. That is part of why my spacing is as wide as it is.
If you had similar aims you could make wide aisles and then plant the trees closer the other way. I almost did this, and actually plan to add some trees between trees for now (could be removed later) so some are 9’ between and 18’ between rows.
Also check out the pictures of @scottfsmith 's orchard here: New trunk baffle design for squirrels etc (I don’t know if there are better pics of it somewhere) but I think he’s got a lot of experience packing a bunch of things into a smaller plot.