Here was the method to my madness. On each limb I snipped any shoots popping up on the inside, and most of those had big fan leaves shading, so -gone (purple arrow)
Any that had shoots on the outside (red arrow) were snipped. I left the fan leaf if it wasn't shaded.
And the yellow arrow shoots were side-to-side and looking strong, so I got rid of their fan leaves because they were shading the stuff to the side.
Those shoots may go later, but you can't put them back
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