I got this Robles Red cutting back in February as a freebie when I purchased two L-graft grafting material of Taiwan Thornless and Taiwan Big Red 3 (I asked about this in this post). The freebie Robles Red was short and stumpy (maybe 5" long) and the grafting material had little to no vascular structure so I opted to do V grafts and stick the buds on this Robles Red.
Now 2 months later, the locations of the V grafts look okay, no rust, not rotted, everything is dry, and the root stock is putting out new leaves.
SOOO... what do I do next? What I really wanted out of this is either of the Taiwanese varieties, but neither of those v grafts are producing. Should I cut off the three new Robles Red leaves (and pot those separately) to encourage other nodes on the root stock to produce, perhaps one of the v grafted will grow?
The other thing is that I read about keeping the plant growing straight, but all three of the leaves are coming out from the sides, not from the top. Should I snip off two and keep one and slowly encourage it to grow skyward?