I had 3 fruit trees delivered at the beginning of April, from a well-known plant supplier: Victoria Plum, Large Early Apricot, and Imperial Gage.
They are compact, 2 year-olds and bare-rooted, so I removed the damp packing, and soaked the roots for 2 hours, then planted each into a large pot, at the soil level below the grafts. I mixed a slight sprinkle of BFB in the compost at the bottom of each pot. They are given a good watering daily.
The Gage has not yet woken up, but the tiny buds are firm. The Apricot and Victoria are awake and bursting into leaf, but they are also producing leaves from all the buds on their trunks, ABOVE the rootstocks. Is this normal, or should I be rubbing them out?