Does Cut-and-Grow-and-Cut Work?

[Solaris]

Linky: http://www.growingbonsai.net/cut-and-grow-and-cut/

Has anyone here used this technique? It looks like a somewhat optimistic use of sacrifice branches to develop a trunk very slowly.
Bet it would look great with a heavy-barked tree if it works, though.

 

[papymandarin]

well does not seem so much optimistic, regular clip and grow takes already quite some time and they clearly say that this is a slower process (you don't just have those sacrifices once, you keep them two years, cut them, grow new ones for two year, cut them ect ect repeatedly)

 

[GGB]

Currently employing it on my bc for taper. More or less how I develop young pines too, obviously those branches have to be there from the start unlike bc

 

[0soyoung]

The simplest description of the thickening pots is that after you chop a trunk it won't thicken much until the next trunk section (a branch) is nearly the same thickness. Just think through the consequences of this truth.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

It works, but not really how it is described in that link. That site doesn’t appear to be written by an experienced hobbyist.