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Shaping trees by breaking branches...

 
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I've noticed that you can break the branches of some plants, and, unless you actually remove the branch, they will continue to grow.
Cane fruits in particular seem to just heal up and keep going.
Yesterday I was at my yarden looking at some mulberry trees I had heavy pruned.
The new branches are coming in with a vengeance, but some if them were too upright.
Rather than attempt to tye them all down, I bent them downwards till they cracked, and left them, still attached but now pointing downwards instead of up.

Will it work?
Time will tell.
What other trees or shrubs might work with this process?
 
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