Beginner Gardening: Pink Jasmine: where does new growth originate?, 1 by Twincol

Twincol wrote:
Aaah, X, yes, when I look at roses, "dead-heading" I am very aware of the nodes from which the next flower will emerge. I refer to the leaf joint with that bump as my pregnant joint. Some of them are already quite "fluffy" with life, others less so. I love finding the quite fluffy ones.

So, okay, it makes sense then that the old tips suppress new growth further back along the branch. The old tips want to keep control, it would seem. Hmmm, does cutting further back down the branch promote more growth and more growth further back down the line? So if I cut more severely then there would be more new growth and much of it might be further back, closer to the main stem/trunk? I never thought about there being an "anti-growth" hormone stifling growth. Does it stifle growth throughout or simply further back down the line?

So pruning or "topping," for example, my pink jasmine might promote growth to fill in the center of the vine, reducing the cloud effect that pink jasmine produces? This particular vine throws out an enormous amount of growth at the end of the stem, throwing out what in effect appears to be a cloud atop the wire fabric fence. Cut that cloud off come fall? or spring? and it will fill in from closer back to the origins at the ground?

I would love to fill that space in some, then allow the cloud to appear every couple of years.

Am I making sense here?

Linda