The three-bud Gravenstein scion that became my most recent tree is presenting me with a problem. All three buds turned out to be fruit buds, none are growth buds.
I don't want it trying to set fruit, and it doesn't seem right to knock off the only growth on the scion. What do I do?
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...looks like first year wood from here... Are Gravenstein’s ‘tip bearers?’ …I know they’re triploids 
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I’d carefully ‘scissor’ off the flowers and leave the leaves… set them in full sunlight.
I’d once had that happen after grafting ‘something’ to the trunk of a Gravenstein because it was apparently ‘too dark’ to initiate full vegetative growth under its canopy – so the scions flowered! They lived, but never amounted to anything more than interesting fruit spurs.
Your Gravs should take off with some sun, and without their flowers.
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