How do I pinch back dahlias for better bloom?

I know one is supposed to ';pinch back'; dahlias, but I don't know how this is done! Thanks!How do I pinch back dahlias for better bloom?
you pinch back dahlias for two reasons one, to promote lots of growth and numerous blooms, two to increase the size of the blooms, in the first case you pinch out the growing tips when the plant is about a foot high, to increase the size of the blooms pinch out two of the buds at the end of each stem as soon as they start to showHow do I pinch back dahlias for better bloom?
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each plant when it is about a foot high will show several growing tips these tips are formed by leaves that are in the process of been formed pinch these tips back to the fully formed leaves below them this will encourage the leaf axils to throw out additional stems and make for a bushier plant , Report Abuse