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Correctable faults in young and medium-aged trees

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  • Multiple leaders
  • Flat tops
  • Forks
  • Suckers
  • Crotches with included bark
  • Rubbing branches
  • Insect-infested branches
  • Excessively deformed branches
  • Trees spaced too closely in the nursery
  • Low, co-dominant stems
  • Branchless trunks
  • Side branches overtaking the leader
  • Fast growing branches on young trees
  • Water sprouts
  • Dense canopy
  • Aggressive opposite branching
  • Disease-infected branches
  • Dead wood
  • Small diameter circling roots
  • Clustered branches
  • Broken branches
  • Unwanted fruit production