Hi, Jeff. Thanks for your concern. I feel a little better each day, but doc says it will be another 6-8 weeks before I'm back to normal.
It depends on how long the stems or branches were. Remember, the effects of pinching or pruning diminish as the distance between the pruning cut and leaves on the stem increases. Also, it depends on when you do the pinching/pruning, your plants state of vitality, and how much energy/food the plant has in reserve.
When you first pruned, leaves on the stem or branch most likely to produce buds would be those closest to the pruning cut. In the event there are only branches with several leaves on each branch - all the way to the top, cutting back the main stem to just above a lateral branch won't do much in the way of forcing back-budding; this, because each of those lateral branches still has an apical meristem producing enough auxin to inhibit back-budding in leaf axils along the branch.
So, your first pinch or pruning cut will likely produce new branching in leaf axils 4-6" proximal to the pruning cut, maybe more. By pinching, then removing the top to start as a cutting, you created an internodal cutting as opposed to a tip cutting. The difference is, the internodal cutting has about a 99.99% probability of becoming a multi-stemmed plant, unless you prune lateral branches off, leaving one lateral with meristem intact to act as the dominant leader. Tip cuttings, OTOH, will have a strong tendency to produce a single-stemmed plant, though you might need at some point to prune co-dominant leaders that compete with other co-dominant leaders for your eye.
As a generalization, your first pinch started the ball rolling toward more lateral breaks near the top of the truncated plant. Your second pruning cut created the internodal cutting and will affect the stump in the same way the pinch affected the upper part of the pinched plant.
Al
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