head back all the growing tips! of the smaller diameter trunk off the lower V on the
right.
then head back all the tips of the branches of the higher V on the left so the ONLY
growing tip(s) is on the branch centered in the middle.
as the tree grows those headed back trunks will become branches with a better crotch.

may take years.
Ingrid

wrote:
Does anyone have some advice for pruning this tree (see pictures) ?
It has a bad V shape at the base, so I was considering major surgery by
removing the smaller V branch (on the right), but the larger branch
seems to have some nasty wounds in the bark...so I don't know!
http://images9.fotki.com/v168/photos...ee_full-vi.jpg
http://images15.fotki.com/v226/photo...e_trunk-vi.jpg



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