New branches then arise from dormant buds on the main trunk.

With the first frosts, foliage disappears and the plant is ready to overwinter in dormant buds.

Cut back lateral growth to three to five dormant buds.

In time, a new shoot or shoots will start from dormant buds near the base.

Even if no new growth appears above the soil line, the stimulation to the near dormant buds is not needed now.

When cultivated, the basal leaves die and a dormant bud is left behind along with a tap root.

But don't worry if no side branch is growing off near your cut, because new sprouts, the tree's future limbs, will grow from dormant buds.

In the tree a knot is either the base of a side branch or a dormant bud.

When a plant is cut back, hormones awaken dormant buds along the stem.

Shearing then is supposed to stimulate dormant buds to produce growth that "fills in" the tree.