Pollinizer placement
The placement of pollinizers is important. Ideally, every tree in an orchard should be located as close to a pollinizer tree as possible. However, efficient orchard production practices do not include scattering pollinizers of commercial cultivars throughout a block. (An exception is listed below in the discussion of
ornamental crabapples.) The preferred arrangement of pollinizers is in solid rows. One scheme is to alternate two rows of pollinizers between four rows of the major cultivar. An exception is planting cultivars, such as Delicious, that have a tendency to be less fruitful. In these instances, and when it is desirable to maximize pollination, a pollinizer row should be set every third row.
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