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What do you mean with "ready"? I am not sure trees gets ready for any intervention. It just happens and after they recover.

By ready he's probably asking if that would be the right moment...

I don't know about the cycle on your cliamate, and I still new into JBPs, but it seems like yes, and that some candles should have been removed before, pines grow multiple candles at one spot, and that's no good, when candles start to show up, you should choose only two to keep you know... I can see one spot with 5 or 6 branches coming out...

The candle cut is made to estimulate inner buds, to make it more compact...

What I meant was, are the candles mature enough to be cut off?

They look very small to me. The normal candles on my jbp gets 20-30 cm long. Not that I think yours will grow longer. But I cut back to 5cm. Yours look like they are not much longer. Wich make me think that it may be better to leave them? I think that shorter internodes would look strange on that tree?

But when it comes to jbp I am just a novice. I have grown them for 6 years now, but that is just not enough experience to be certain about this species.

Yep I feel the same about not being certain about the timing... I still a begginer on jbp too...

I know that you can't let that cluster of candles happen, or you'll endup with a knob there, you have to do a selection (Mekaki).

You shoul look more into that cycle... Mekiri, Mekaki, Hanuki, Metsumi... And try to gather info from those who are close to you, how they do it according to your climate.

Yes, in the long run several branches on the same spot will create inverse taper. However that does not happen fast, it takes several years. And even in the early phase it will go away in just a few years. In refinement it makes sence to always reduce to two buds. In development, I am not that sure. Leaving all of them will give more options when styling in a few years. I tend to do both. Leave every bud in the interior of the tree for more future options and reduce to two in the exterior where I know that I will not need more foliage.