Ask-a-Dave's-Gardener: Help with multigraft stone fruit tree, 4 by Abcreagh

Abcreagh wrote:
Hi,

I\'m relatively new to gardening but my mother in law gave me a bare root multigraft tree and I\'m determined to help it thrive. It has started leafing out but I\'m worried it\'s happening unevenly and I\'ve read that with multigrafts it\'s important to not let that happen. The problem is I don\'t know if/where/when to cut.

There are 5 grafts: gold dust peach, elberta peach, nectarine, plum, and apricot. The elberta graft was the thinnest (seeming weakest) so I planted it to the southwest -- now it seems to be doing better than the stronger-looking grafts. I kind of sabotaged the apricot by cutting it too short (if one graft must be sacrificed, that\'s the one I\'d choose), but even it has three new leaf outs. The peaches and plum are leafing like crazy. The nectarine is my greatest concern because it only has one smallast leaf/branch starting to grow. Should I cut back the others to help it, or just wait and see? I really don\'t want the nectarine to die.

Picture identification: The thinnest graft (which has 2 \"prongs\" instead of one thicker branch) is the elberta peach. Clockwise from there it\'s nectarine, gold dust, plum, and the apricot is the tiny/short one in the middle (red dot). The one with my finger is the nectarine. They loaded out of order for some reason, sorry.

Please help!

Thank you!!!