Successful Graft.....Now What?

General Fruit Growing
#1

First year grafting apple trees…i read up on grafting itself, but now i’m at the point where okay good majority of grafts are putting on growth and now i’m clueless. I did prune/thumb out all the rootstock growth that came up, but i used scions w/ 2-4 buds and seems like most of the buds have leafed out.

What should my first year pruning/training look like. I’m aware of when i got 2-3 year tree pruning techniques no one talks about first year pruning to start the process

Should i be training just 1 of the buds to be my main leader this first year and trying to train it upward? should i be going for two main buds coming up?

#2

Yes , usually just leave one bud grow straight up the first year.
Removing all others.
Or if 2 have sprouted from scion , you can pinch the top of the less vigorous one , letting a few leafs remain , as back up ,in case something happens to the main leader .
So , you want to train to just one shoot ., on newly grafted rootstock .

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