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Correctable faults in young and medium-aged trees
- 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
