Not in the realm of Bonsai but just *JWP tree growing*.

I have a fukuzumi I have received. Main candles are about 8-9 long on the tree I received, I ended up candeling the main candles to 5-6" or so.

On one main leader, I'm considering just pruning the tip off + 2 inches........just to reducing the spacing. Is it safe to do this and while I know I'm losing this years growth in this one stem, as long as it creates new buds on the tip for next season, I'l okay with.