i see, im going to spend today mulling over the cuts to make, im concerned because of the cleaning i did to the branches removing my inner foilage.
Why did you remove inner foliage? That’s GOLD!!! You WANT inner foliage!
When styling pines, we suppress the outer foliage in order to encourage inner foliage!
Look at my avatar tree. Yes, there is some negative space between some of the branches, but, for the most part, all the branches have dense inner foliage. Over time, branches will get too long. And to shorten them, we have to cut back to a side branch, and make it become the new terminal. Having lots of “back branches” allows the tree to maintain it’s basic style for decades.
I am always trying to encourage all my pines to keep interior branches.