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[Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>]

Group:
I planted some grafted sweet-cherry trees this year and, at this point, all 
of them are forked/divided into two vertical main branches.  I think that 
having a crotch low on the tree is not good.. I'd like the tree to be shaped 
with a vertical central leader.
Should I, at this time, remove one of the two so that there is only one?  I 
did this with one, and now it's just a single trunk with leaves (no branches) 
going up 8'; next year, I'll allow it to put out branches.
Also, with rootstocks such as the Gisela series and New Root 1 (Zaiger), 
won't it happen that in a decade or a few decades, the scion will grow wider 
than the under-stock so that the scion will, eventually, break-off from the 
under-stock?
Thank you,
Steve; NJ