When should you cut the branches and chop the leader? I've been told in winter if that is correct when in winter beginning, middle, or end?
It depends, I think Jonas weaken the sacrifice around fall, then removes it late-winter early-spring.
@Maiden69 his family has been doing it for generations. He knows that a tree in the ground can be worked that way and babied later in a pot.
I know... it's just "shocking" when you compare what he does to what is commonly taught. He's comment is that he does it for speed, he's not worried about how pretty the tree looks now, that once in the pot, the treatment would be different.
