Fruit Tree Question

[DiggerSean]

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...204_162718.jpg
Doesn't look too bright, coming from a professional nursery?

I know, I don't want to name names on here but I expected better.

[FB.]

It could be a failed bud graft I guess. There are a couple of these on the tree, that are only on one side and are not grafts as such with no scarring all the way through/round. I now have a feeling that these trees may have been top bud grafted, do you think that's plausible FB?

Some nurseries bud graft in summer then cut off the rootstock to leave the grafted bud in winter, then let the bud grow into a maiden the next summer. If that's the case the grafted piece will be on one side and there will often be a kink where the bud starts growing out sideways and then gradually the shoot curves upwards as the bud found it could grow upwards in place of the rootstock stem above it which was removed.

[DiggerSean]

I don't think this is the case with these FB. I'll see how they get on this season but it may be the following season before I can tell if I've been sold "not to type" varieties. I don't hold out much hope to be honest