My MOO grew from a quart pot at HD barely 12" tall barely 6 months ago to over 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide right now. Hundreds of flowers. My grand duke grows naturally bushy but the MOO is more scrambling viny. To combat that, I bud-tip. If you want yours bushy, I suggest you bud tip branches that get too long without branching. After bud tipping side branches develop.

Can you elaborate on what exactly bud tipping is?? Sorry if that is a stupid question :)

Oh, and also, can I do this "bud tipping" at any time? I feel like I have read stuff about only pruning when the flowers are gone?

To make my sambac jasmines (like Maid of Orleans) bushy I simply cut back the long branch 'whips' closer to the base of the plant. This produces side branches beneath where you cut back to make it bushier. If the long whip like branches have flowers I normally wait for them to finish blooming before I cut back.

Does that make sense? :)

-Robert

Thank you for that information That adeniumguy and Robert. I've been wanting to know that too, as mine are too ugly because I'm always afraid to trim them. And thank you Puchinita5 for starting this thread.

~Kasie

Should I be cutting off the little "holder" of the flowers once the flowers fall off? It's like a little claw that went around the petals, and it stays on once the petals fall off. I'm not sure if I should leave them on or cut them off?

I usually just pull them off or pinch them off with my fingers. They fall off usually after a day or two, especially in the hot sun. They do not rebloom on those as far as I know.