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Originally Posted by T.S.Wheeler
but I have used old toe-nail clippers to get a more flush cut).
I hope this helps; maybe somebody has more or better advice.
Travis
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Travis,
ROTFL, you owe me a keyboard clean up from a five finger coffee spray
Frugal and innovative I like that.
Sarah,
A little Shakespeare... To pinch or not to pinch that is the question?
Pruning is pruning and pinching is pinching. One is designed for branches whilst the other for removal of the terminal bud. Both have their place in bonsai cultivation and are used interchangeably at the right intervals. Constant pinching will produce "poodle like" foliage pads, whereas pruning and pinching will provide the proper foliage outline. I know I am confusing you!
Once you have removed the terminal bud on any given branch, that branch ceases to grow, full period. The action causes the latent buds along the branch to wake up and sprout. As these new buds sprout and you pinch them out, latent buds further down will wake up and so on and so forth.
Pruning develops branches whilst pinching increases the density of the foliage pad. When the foliage pad becomes to dense it is necessary to thin it out, this is done by pruning out excessive branches, this is done with shears/scissors etc... perhaps toe nail clippers but they would seem a little awkward to me.