Thanks Scott and turkeycreektrees, i very much appreciate you taking the time to gove me the detailed responses that you have. I did quite a bit of reading on the grafting process but as you say i need to do more on the pruning process.
I guess a good thing for me to do might be to top some of the trees and to leave some of the others and see how they do, having said that it is interesting to here that a new central leader will take over anyway so perhaps this is a pointless experiment…
That is a relief to here that the height of the graft union likely ok. Thanks for letting me know that.
I have renewed enthusiasm for getting back to the reading now that a few of these issues have been ironed out. Really looking forward to seeing them grow and grafting some more this coming spring.
Thanks again for your help,
Jamie