I have 4 pitch pines, only a few years old. I was wondering how to candle prune. Should I take them all the way down, leaving just a couple of mm? Or should I just leave it alone?
Lazy, it's hard to see how it is coming out of the ground (movement) so if it were mine I would choose one of the long bottom branches for a new leader and shorten the other this fall. That's all the cutting, just pull two year needles on trunk and branches above where the new leader starts.
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