Tip pruning

[lookbettertomorow]

I know if you tip prune at a node where opposite leaves are you will get two new branches and a bushier tree, but if you tip prune an alternate leaf arrangement, do you just get the one new shoot or does it stimulate the lower one too?

I'm wanting to tip prune my Whitebeam (i know i know, but a tree is a tree) to keep it compact and dense. So the birds will nest in it and it will make a better screen :-)

[nickdub]

Might be better to post a photo of the bit of the tree you are thinking about pruning, as I'm failing to understand exactly what you have in mind from your question. The other thing that makes a difference is whereabouts the pruned branch is in relation to the rest of the tree as buds on lower branches are less likely to break and grow strongly than those at the top of the tree are.

[lookbettertomorow]

Sorry don't wish to be condescending but I can't be clearer than tip pruning, it's pruning the tip

[Martin H]

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[nickdub]

OK, where is the tip in relation to the rest of the tree ? eg on top, the side or near the bottom ?