Fruits and Nuts: Any suggestions for keeping a lapins semi-dwarf short, 1 by pollengarden

pollengarden wrote:
Here is an apple tree that shows the long term effect of various pruning cuts a little better than the cherries. If the branch takes a slight jog, then continues up at the same angle - then that was an outward facing bud right below the pruning cut. If the branch comes out horizontal, then turns upward in a "J" or "L" shape, that was either 2nd bud down from the original cut or already a small branch when the cut was made directly above it, and it turned upward in response to the cut. You can repeat this and have a series of Js strung together. If it continues out horizontally, it was either the third or more bud below the original cut, or it was already an established horizontal branch when the cut was made directly above it, or both.