im confused by your feedback, whats the proper way to initially trim nursery stock? Do you mean snip the ends off the long branches and encourage short foliage at the ends, keeping all the interior stuff?
My thing is....you need the runners for the energy to get it potted.
But you need to cut em to utilize the close growth.
So pot first trim later?
Or trim first pot later?
Either way....you won't be able to do much until it is rebalanced.
So if your close branches are weak and in danger of being shaded to death....
Trim first. But you must then wait till you have the same amount of runners to repot.
I prefer to pot first.as A fresh healthy Nursery J almost always has the energy to be repotted straight away, where trimming it and waiting to repot later is pretty much a guessing game.
I have been stripping everything between the first forking branches and the growing tips.
Hybrid...
Trying to leave them little options for where they grow. And retain health that is in the runners.
I see people thin them crazy....
But I'm not at that stage yet.
I'm trying to get full healthy plants into small pots....
Left to gain enough energy so I know I can thin them hard and begin a righteous styling.
For me...
The need to get them into more controllable and predictable soil is greater than my ability to know if they are healthy enough to be repotted after a major cutback.
Sorce