Rodrigo
Shohin
My BRT seems to be really loving the indoor set up I have for it- I'm having to prune every other week. However I have a couple of questions about pruning during winters indoors.
My tree needs ramification closer to the trunk in some areas but I'm not doing any heavy pruning till mid summer. My pruning now is mostly for space management because the really long shoots start touching the lights and burning, or they'll go into the circulation fan and get the tips cut off, or they hit the wall and bend. I know that common practice is to let shoots grow to 7-8 leaves and then prune back to one or two nodes. My question is, if I prune to 1 or 2 new nodes every time, the tree will be bigger and bigger with every hair cut. Can I be pruning to old wood as well to keep the size until I can get it outside and let it run longer?
Follow up, if I'm letting the first branch go long to thicken it up, should I cut off all the leaves except for the growing tip at the end to promote length or let all the buds go down the branch?
This is after my last prune:
This is now, front then back:
My tree needs ramification closer to the trunk in some areas but I'm not doing any heavy pruning till mid summer. My pruning now is mostly for space management because the really long shoots start touching the lights and burning, or they'll go into the circulation fan and get the tips cut off, or they hit the wall and bend. I know that common practice is to let shoots grow to 7-8 leaves and then prune back to one or two nodes. My question is, if I prune to 1 or 2 new nodes every time, the tree will be bigger and bigger with every hair cut. Can I be pruning to old wood as well to keep the size until I can get it outside and let it run longer?
Follow up, if I'm letting the first branch go long to thicken it up, should I cut off all the leaves except for the growing tip at the end to promote length or let all the buds go down the branch?
This is after my last prune:
This is now, front then back: