Next, we'll prune. But where do we prune to? Here's a principle that differentiates winter pruning from that which you do in the growing season. In the winter we're cutting back into old, lignified wood. In the spring, we never cut back into old wood
unless we're cutting back to a new, strongly growing shoot. So we can cut back this branch to the interior shoots because they're strong. When we cut back the strongest branch, it will encourage more back budding.
Now the wire on this branch can stay on a bit longer - so I'll just unwrap a turn or to, prune and then wire the two new branches into place.
1) unwrap wire
2) Prune to a strongly growing shoot
3) wire new growth
4) Style new shoots
Scott