I have other trees that are taller including a 30 year old seedling that is 30m. We have not had a problem with the fruits falling and getting damaged.
Peter
Peter i would love to have magnificent 30m high trees eventually, however unfortunately i live in the cyclone belt and that thing would come crashing down in an instant. I will probably try and cut all mine to 6-9m. I plan to use star pickets and rope to secure them in the event of a cyclone.
We have 20m tall durians that are surrounded by other big trees and they survived without damage one strong cyclone and do very well in minor storms so if tall trees have others around theres a higher chance of survival. These are on coastal land so they got hit hard and orchard systems around the area lost many trees in the same cyclone. It's possible for tree's to survive a cyclone in a proper food forest. Eventually there will be certain food bearing vines up them too that will tie together the trees, just like in the forest here that have survived cyclones for 100 years at least (yes there's very big tree's here
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Wind damage is mostly an issue in orchard systems with wide tree spacing, straight rows, marcotted trees or other not suitable propagation methods and poor wind breaks due to maximzing the area for the main crop.
We get good fruit of these durian tree's but cookatoos are an issue so future tree's we will try and keep shorter so that we can bag them to reduce cookatoo damage.
You gotta bang those pickets in really hard, the rain that accompanies the storm will soften the soil. We have a similar insurance plan for some tree's