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In a meeting of the local bonsai society, I long time member told me on her azaleas she nips off the flower buds every other year because flowering takes a lot of energy from the tree, and that redirects the energy to root growth and ramification. Sometimes, two years in a row.

I have never heard of this before. We grow azaleas because we love the flowers. This sounds like it wastes half the time of the azalea.

Has anybody heard of this? She does not do it for any other bonsai, like quince or anything else. Does that make sense?

This is common practice for people growing azalea and need to develop them.

ALso fully developed azaleas, recommendation is to drastically reduce the number of flowers, and remove all flowers once the first major flowering happened, removing maybe a third of the buds before even opening.

If you do this, best would be to remove the buds as they are setting, in fall.

Ivan Mann wrote: I have never heard of this before.

I do it too. Not only azaleas but my apple too.

We grow azaleas because we love the flowers.

Some do, but here we grow them to be bonsai