1. Keep supporting branches and delete redundant branches. Pile-blank cultivation, overgrown branches and buds, uncertain deletion, difficult cutting, or wrong cutting due to biased concept. Although it can be adjusted, it will prolong the time of branch storage and modeling, because setting support is the premise of the structure. According to the personality characteristics of the pile material, such as straight, oblique, curved, lying, hanging and facing the water, it is integrated into the author's conception image, leaving branches to stand upright and deleting all miscellaneous branches and redundant buds.
2. The proportion is coordinated and the pruning is exquisite. The thickness and length of branches should be compared, when to trim and where to cut them, which runs through the whole process of making potted tree shapes and is related to all parts of potted tree structure. At the same time, the ratio of branches to stems, the ratio of branches to scaffolds, and the cascade comparison of main and secondary veins in branches and scaffolds. Before cutting, you must be clear and have a careful plan, so that you can cut the branches and end up just right.
3. Angle positioning and precise and fine cutting. The angle, branching direction and mutual unevenness of branches and buds reflect that branches and brackets bend up and down, left and right in space, and the angle is not chosen properly. Although it can be supplemented by Pinza, it is not as good as the natural state after all. Therefore, when choosing the angle of bud point, we should not only pay attention to one, but also ignore the other, that is, we should not only clarify the branch direction, spatial state, and the relationship with other branches and supports, but also "advance".
4, contour control, comprehensive pruning. The outline represents the overall tree state of the basin tree, that is, the so-called triangle or equilateral triangle. Here, the length of individual branches should be subordinate to the whole, and points and lines should be integrated into the whole face. Overall observation, partial pruning and overall adjustment, at this time, potted trees tend to be plump and mature, which belongs to the clean stage of modeling, and its focus is on the opening and closing of branches and the overall relationship of verandah. In a word, cutting is a visual operation, and how to cut is a potential thinking. The combination of the two is a thorough pruning. In fact, how to cut off the characteristics of plants is, to a great extent, an artistic aesthetic category, and it is by no means a cover for the word "cut". As mentioned above, pruning involves only a few links.