I have a mother I'm trying to make. Should I LSTed it, and now it has brances coming off all over. Should I cut these off, and only leave 2 branches for now? I know it needs to get bigger. Basically I have a U shaped plant with a bunch of smaller branches coming off in the middle/concaved part of the U. Should I cut these out? Hope this makes sense without the photos... Thanks.

heres a pic of my former bonsai,it hermed so i killed it and didnt regret it.




it actually grew to be 3ft before the exicution

That is what mine looks like, but a lot more smaller shoots in the middle. Did you prune yours?

prune, top, bend and generally torture the mother as needed. all you care about is that she is healthy and produces nice big and healthy clone cuttings.

for instance, in that last picture if each of those nodes growing straight up had been topped and then topped again you would have a nice little forest of clone points.

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it was topped,fimmed the whole 9 yards,it was tortured and became a 3ft wide,3ftwide beast,i couldve got a half lb easy if it didnt herm,she came from marijuanaseeds.nl,they were feminized

Did you try flowering it? So you think I should trim up some of the smaller branches coming off?

ya i flowered it thats how i found out,trim the branches that will b too weak to support the weight,keep the branches that u deem usable for your situation,treat each brach as a plant of its own

Ok, I think I will trim it down like yours. Thanks.

Yeah Im working on somthing like that right now cept Im going to do some diff bends

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