branch development

I have a JM that is still in its 5 gallon nursery pot with about a 1.5 in. diameter trunk. Great thick nebari. It is so vigorous, even though I trunk-chopped it back in March. It keeps throwing off huge long branches that break under their own weight! It is literally breaking branches off of...

Unusually, there has never been an annual field growing thread here on bnut. Since there's so much emphasis on chopping and collecting right away, I thought I'd start one myself. There's a ton of information out there on youtube and on practitioners websites that I rarely see posted here. I'm a...