Serious question, did the greenhouse manager at Longwood Gardens just save me years of frustration?

I was at Longwood Gardens last Saturday and the greenhouse supervisor saw me trying to prune my ficus at home like a pine tree. She flat out told me "you're cutting off all the energy pathways, stop treating it like a Christmas tree." Made me switch to thinning cuts instead of heading cuts overnight. Has anyone else had a random expert totally rewrite how they care for a specific plant?

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terryrobinson26d agoTop Commenter

Four years ago a tile guy told me I was scrubbing my grout wrong and showed me a completely different way to seal it. He said the same thing basically, that I was just spreading the dirt around instead of lifting it out. It's wild how many of us default to the fastest method even when it works against us. There's this whole hidden layer of technique in everyday stuff that nobody tells you about until you luck into the right person. Sounds like that greenhouse manager gave you a shortcut to something that would have taken years to figure out on your own.

gavin8026d ago

So wait, did she actually get you to look at the branch angles, or just the cuts themselves? Because I feel like that's the real game changer nobody talks about.