Good Morning,
I just special ordered three 5 gallon multi-trunk Natchez for my back yard. However, when I went to pick them up, they were all single trunk with multiple branches starting at about 1″ from the soil line. All my research left me with the expectation that a “multi” trunk specimen would actually have multiple trunks coming up from the soil. Do all propagated CMs actually start out as single trunk and are just pruned into multi-trunk? The desired end result is V shaped and I'm concerned these may end up in a U shape with the branches coming out horizontal at first before turning upward. I want to make sure I can prune to the desired shape AND that the lowest branches will remain strong that close to the base before committing to the sale.
Thank you for any feedback. I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
