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2torial
#0900:
Learn2
Prune Bushes and Small
Trees
(Continued)
 Cope
with headings
The rabbit effect
When you want your bushes bushier or a bushier
effect of branches, you'll want to use this
technique. Locate a tip of a branch with its buds
on the end of it. Chop it off a few inches down
from the very tip. Many, many tips will sprout
forth from where that one tip used to be.
Dead heading: the same as a heading, but
specifically for flowering plants. When a flower is
blooming, it's in its glory. When it begins to die,
it needs to be chopped off. Don't let flowers die
in disgrace.
When you chop off the dying flower, the plant
will automatically start sending energy to start
making a brand new flower at the new bud loaction.
If you keep this up during blooming season, your
bush will be covered in blossoms.
Cut down a few buds below the dying flower. This
gives the whole branch a boast by capturing it in a
strong energy flow.
Flowering bushes are unshaped for the most part,
and dead headings combined with thinning keeps them
under control and with enough light and air to grow
healthily.
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