Good Morning Carla.

I did let a yellow delicious fruit the year it was grafted and then waited four years to see fruit off of it again. I think it stunts them.

:-)M

I never let them fruit, they need all the energy to get going.

Scott

Adding the weight of the fruit may cause a fracture of the graft, not yet up to full strength. Your scion wood must have been two year wood to contain flower buds. I try and take top growth for scions which usually contains all first year wood with no flower buds. Al

I support mine and let them fruit the year after the graft was made. If I understand you right, that is where you are now. I don't see any stunting from letting them fruit.

Most of mine are inside the greenhouse so there is no wind. Usually I'd get 3-5ft of growth that first year on stone fruit. If you have growth like that my only concern would be breaking the graft out in high winds. CA generally doesn't have the winds we do.

So one option is to thin heavily to limit fruit weight and support the branch. That's probably what I'd do but only you can judge your trees, your grafts strength, and your chances of high winds.