"Tan Thuan Seah" wrote in message
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So I suppose cutting cleanly means to have the end point of the
cutting
close to a node? Or does it means I need to shave the cutting a bit
from the
end up to a node?

| -branch |
-branch
o - node OR | -branch
| -branch (shave) o - node
| - branch (shave)

Hope this is not too basic a question to ask. I am a novice in
gardening.

I am afraid I cannot interpret your diagram with enough certainty to
comment on it.
The cutting should not have any branches. It should just be a little
length of a single stem. You cut it as best you can judge, at a node
and remove a few of the leaves nearest to the cut, to give a short
length of bare stem.

[snip]

Franz