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I was thinking maybe the set back for a year in ramification might be an investment for the future...

does defoliating help on trunk fattening? I don't mean during a first year but lets say I have 5 years ahead of trunk development. Would this be beneficial to do it in the first couple of years?

wowzer!

Nice!

another +1 on the recommendation of kaneshin.

This one is doing great!

sometimes cedars can be bent a bit.

Sometimes thicker cedars can be bent

Pixie dust! Awesome

Put it in a pot

Nice tree! Looks good with the pot. Tridents go very red in autumn so I think this will be great. An olive tree I have been chasing back for 7 years:

I think it might be crataegus of some sort as you mention. Maybe cockspur or black hawthorne?

So first real styling steps: (Crappy pot made by me)

has anyone added a brake to the first plastic ones?

fingers crossed for it! Its a nice tree

this azalea always rocks. Good work, Brian!

these cicadas are amazing! I didn't know about these things. Do they work like clockwork? 17 years underground and all emerge in the same year?? Seems like the biblical plague!

It looks like it

what kind of bird is that? o_O

I thought it was half its size! Even more impressive.

You can make it. Tons of tutorials online... It reeks like hell... not like Surströmming but still your house will have a terrible smell while cooking it

Quite a bit of growth this

I found a live tree so didn't sow seeds. https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/atlas-cedar.24213/ I believe it is atlas but might not be but I don't really care too much it has short needles an that's all I need.

You've gotta start cutting back hard. Like leaving 1 or 2cm branches.

Piceas didn't sprout. Larix neither but I found one but it didn't do well in my climate