If you cut them back very hard they tend to withdraw sap all the way down
the trunk to the roots. The usual way to avoid this is to cut any unwanted
branches in spring to a stump and when this throwns numerous buds rub all of
them out except one. Keep this one trimmed fairly short. This reduces the
sap flow gradually. Next year you can cut off the stump but don't make it
too concave. The bark is very thin and this would create a depression in the
healed over bark.

Best wishes

Kev Bailey
Zone 9, North Wales, UK

I would like to hard prune a Satsuki. What's the best time to hard prune a
Satsuki? I am in zone 7 - Portland Oregon, and fall has just arrived.

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