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Congratulations on the successful takes.The trees I have bought were veneer grafted. The union is usually close to theground. I understand you should make your first prune when the center leader of your treeis as high as your waist. Then you prune above a node. You are then looking for the 3-4 strongestshoots that are evenly spaced. When the new shoots are 2 feet you tip them and so on.A very good video has been shared on this forum.
If the tree has other branches, totally fine to tip the first flush. I have done this on nearly all the grafts on the cogs hall I'm topworking. The ones I didn't do it on was just because time got away from me... I leave at least 2 leaves on the branch I tip.