Should I leave this graft longer?

Grafted some Tomcot apricot to a peach to try to work towards a “fruit cocktail” tree.

One graft is pushing.

The other one I thought had failed, so I started unwrapping the parafilm since I still have some dormant scionwood in the fridge, and am doing a second round Monday with the upcoming warm spell. Lo and behold, there is callousing. It also looks like the primary buds may have never pushed, but there are little teeny green bumps next to them that look like some kind of auxiliary or adventitious bud. Should I leave these and see what happens?

I grafted these on the 4th, so it has been 20 days.

Leave it on - it will help the callous around the rootstock form opposite your main, keeper graft.

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