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Panicle hydrangeas respond to pruning by growing more. I have a lot of new growth from the season in the video that were 4' long. I now cut 50% off this one and it keeps adding huge stems.

Thanks for the feedback. There are several places where I stopped the time lapse segment and explained why I made the cuts. Did you see those parts?

@@zzmomma119 Yes. I watched the timelapse part at 25% speed (particularly 7:14 onward) so I could see some of the cuts, but the camera is still so far from the cuts. I was looking forward to watching even the first cut, but you'll see at 5:31 you actually step in front of the camera so we don't see it. It's really that beginners need to not just hear the rationale, but watch as you slowly locate the place to cut & slowly execute the cut. Your video isn't alone in being helpful but not super-helpful, lol. I think it's because experienced pruners like yourself make the cuts automatically and you've done it so many times you forget you're actually making decisions. For us beginners, it's most helpful to have you slow down that automatic process, zoom in close, explain how you decide where to cut, & then let us watch up close as you find where to cut & then make the cut. Several times/examples, lol. Not a criticism. It's a great video, just some thoughts from a new but devoted gardener, lol!

Hi Tricia! Where are you located? By now all the hydrangeas have leafed out and if you have stems that don't have leaves on them you can consider them dead and cut them off. You can email me at amy@powersplants.com If you could send me a pic where I can see where it is planted and what is around it that would be great.

Thank you! 😊

These are the pictures I took in July after it had bloomed in full. It was spectacular! ua-cam.com/video/LZ_EayODnp0/v-deo.html

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks so much!

Do you think more off the length or do you mean pruning out more stems?

@@zzmomma119 That is a beautiful plant. How does it look now? We have a standard-shaped paniculata that looks a lot like your "before" picture in winter. These things are resilient. Ours is staked because it was once completely flattened and suffered a nasty split after a freak tornado blew down a huge piece of pressure-treated fence. The paniculata recovered from that and never looked back. I pruned it hard this spring after watching a youtube video. Like you, I started surgically. But then the whole ordeal escalated and before the lady of the house proclaimed "there's nothing left!". There were no crossing branches, there were no twigs, there was not much of anything. None of the surviving branches would have reached higher than the the half-way point of your "after" photo frame at 08:00. This was not the disaster that we had feared. It grew back slowly in the spring but then relentlessly. It's now late July. The plant has a huge beautiful spherically shaped ball of new foliage. The interior looks like an jungle. Flowers have just started to appear on the outside branches, which seems a few weeks later than usual.

Excellent video very informative!👍