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Pinching in order to get back budding (forcing new growth on woody areas) is also used a lot, as Rock has stated, this really all comes down to redistibrution of growth energy. Once you learn how your tree grows ,wether it's apically dominant or branch tip dominant(like juniperus horizontalis) you will be closer to acheiving the shape you want through tip clipping or pinching, in order to send the growth energy of the plant to the ares that you want new growth in. Like ohters have said though this doesn't work with ALL trees.

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