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Same here.
I have plants that have recovered from failed graft or some rabbit gnawing that look like that or a little worse and heal just fine.

If you are paying for he tree you certainly want an unblemished specimen, will never be the same as one that did not have the damage, but I think this should be just fine.  I wouldn't do anything special to it.

I would leave it be.  When it fruits in a year or two the weight of the fruits will pull down the limbs, spreading out your tree nicely.  If the branches are spreading now, with fruit you will be picking them off the ground.

My thoughts.

Yes, nematodes do affect fruit trees, but possibly not the varieties you listed. 

Guava, Mulberry and Pomegranate will be damaged by root knot nematode and you may want to take preventive action especially when the plants are young.

There are several suggestions including using mulching or organics, using ground shellfish shells (shrimp and crab shells) and growing in a buried pot to avoid root contact to native soil in the top foot.
 
I don't know if or how these work but I am sure you can find options used successfully in your local area.

Are you thinking that without drought stress, we could use some cold stress?

Quote from: Orkine on December 26, 2023, 04:48:00 PM

I have a small Lucs in the ground 4 years or so.  It is just below 3 feet tall and is holding its first fruit.

It is a small tree (old, enough to hold fruit, but really small)  and I am surprised it is flowering and holding fruit.  I have others, that are larger and planted about the same time but not doing much right now.

I will post a picture later.

nice, sometimes they can start flowering just at a meter tall, I remember one in Luc's house flowered like crazy, I guess yours is a seedling?

Could be, I just posted a couple of photographs.

I have a couple of spare cuttings of Godzilla and Townsend pink dragon fruit.
$10 a piece plus $10 shipping.

So 2 of each shipped for $50 within the continental USA and if you want one of each shipped, that would be $30.

Friday or Saturday could be very soggy in the Miami area.
Sure we need some rain but perhaps not this much

Interesting, I wasn't thinking squirrel but I was thinking of bagging it to prevent borer.

Yes I believe it is Annona Reticulata, but Skhan would know.  I got the scions from him sometime in 2020, I think March. 

I grafted it on pond apple (a branch, the rest of the tree is Cherilata) and it has done relatively well.  Flowered this year and surprisingly held one fruit.  I am optimistic for next year or the one after.

You might want to share a picture or describe the tree better.

Two 5 year old trees could look very different.
 

Are you going to cut off one of those stalks after you retry tour graft?

That will be a very narrow crutch angle if you kept both.  Not sure if that works well for avocado.
On most trees, I would graft both and remove whichever is weaker or doe snot take and retain just on main stem from which a better shaped tree can be formed.

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38 or 52. What is RKN? Don’t know much about yangmei

Did you get an answer to your question, I assumed Root Knot Nematode.