Summer Candle Pruning for 2-needle pines, part 2: Making the Cut

Nebari Bonsai

I’ve been working on this pine for 6 seasons now, and documenting the work along the way here:

Click to access Candle-Cutting%20071011.pdf

Since the strength is fairly-well balanced right now, I decided to cut the candles all at once, and leave a small stub on the stronger shoots, and no stub on the weaker shoots.  I’ll update this as the tree begins to bud again.

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