Species Study - Taxodium distichum

[Cajunrider]

A BC after a base split and dunked for a year. Fantastic development!
PS: I offered this tree at $300 3 months ago. It is now a keeper.

 

[Apex37]

For those who are working on branch building. How do you guys combat hard cutting on BC? My biggest issue I come across is I'll let a secondary branch grow out and lignify, cut it back hard, and it just refuses to back bud on that secondary branch. Instead it'll often times send out bud at the base of the branch or further back on the actual main branch. I find this to be the case whether it's an apical branch or a lower branch. I'm wondering if maybe I'm not leaving enough of the branch I'm wanting bifurcation from or what. Typically I leave about an 1" or so of the branch I'm wanting back budding on.