I found an example of what I meant in my last comment. Plants usually have buds like the two examples below: alternating on either side of a trunk/branch, or two coming right out of the same “node” but directly opposite each other.

I can’t really tell from the photos, but it looks like money trees possibly alternate. In either case, you can see in the diagram that once you make a cut, that particular branch won’t get any longer but the new side-branches will.

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