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Old 25-Feb-2004   #10
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Originally posted by Brent
I emphasized INCREASING above, because what most people have never bothered to observe (at least I never see it mentioned) is that the first two or three internodes of a released bud (achieved by pruning) are shorter than the internodes of the rest of the expanding shoot. By pinching back to one or two buds we take advantage of this phenomenon...


This looks like a good thread for the FAQ. This post seems to feed very well into Dennis Makashima's post on internodes, which advocates similar pinching and pruning techniques with a similar explanation:



http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/showthr...d=4875#post4875
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