What are the best methods to prune and then propagate my bourganvilla tree?

My 2 year old bourganvilla is a healthy plant, thick/full with hundreds of branches and has grown to about 18 feet tall. I have hooked some branches along my garage and over the door but it is still growing too tall and will soon be falling over and dragging on the ground. I would like to prune the plant back to about 10 feet. I want to cut off the branches and pot them and when they begin growing, share them with my family. The plant thrives here in Houston, Texas.

Answers:
trimming any bush can be very tricky. What you must do is prune it at only "y's". In other words, think of the letter "y" and prune at the upper two cornors. You want to leave a Y so that new shoots will grow from both cuts giving you a fuller looking shrub as it regrows. I don't know how else to explain it. What I teach novices to do is make a small letter Y on a sheet of paper, cut it out, and then hold it against the shrub you are pruning. You can also prune at the nudule area, leaving the nudule, but that can get tricky. You then use a rooting product and put small ( no more than 6"cuttings) into your growing medium. By the way, I grow the white Buganvillia called "Alice" and it is beautiful.

Other answers:
I would go to a professional....one that knows how to prune a tree, casue if you do it wrong,it looks so bad the next year...get it done right...and it is the best tree on the block
I would go to a professional....one that knows how to prune a tree, casue if you do it wrong,it looks so bad the next year...get it done right...and it is the best tree on the block
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