Bit of a silly question but I'm quite curious to know if there is any way to encourage budding/new branches to form in a certain place? Just wondered if there was some sort of trick to encourage a bud to grow where you wanted it, to grow a branch in a place one doesn't already exist. I know there are methods, of cutting, drilling etc. however I don't fancy taking power tools to my beloved Elm. If my picture frame hanging skills are anything to go by, it would not be a good end result.
I read about cutting from the top down, to encourage thicker lower growth, if I do this enough would buds eventually form lower down on the trunk?
I have buds naturally forming all over the trunk on one of the Elms, but It would be nice to have some way of controlling it more than just plucking out the ones I don't want and hoping one will form where I do.