Coastal redwood questions

[Mike132327]

I received this coastal redwood as a gift. The trunk is only 1.5” thick and it is about 21” tall. I was looking to get a few uncut younger redwoods to grow them into much larger material over some years. Unfortunately and with the best intentions a loved one got me a “bonsai” already made to make it easier.

Will taking this out of the bonsai pot in spring and planting it in a bigger grow pot fatten the trunk and grow it out?

Will it look alright trying to make it a bigger tree after this large cut was made?

Did this set back the process of letting grow till I was happy with trunk thickness dramatically to the point I should just get more and make this as ok as it can be?

I’m probably going to get more regardless but I would really like to try to make this into a nice tree.

Please any advice on this tree would be greatly appreciated. I am in 7B and trying to figure out what to do with this guy in the spring. Thanks!

 

[Notsureaboutplantnames]

If you google image coastal redwood bonsai you will see the nice looking ones have lateral branches that are horizontal or slightly angled downward. So the biggest issue to me is the large swelling where the 2 strong upright laterals are attached at a 45 degree upward angle.
The lower ones are more or less what you are looking for.
Maybe you can cut them off and use this side as the rear? It looks like there is one or more horizontal shoots at the same location.

 

[Mike132327]

If you google image coastal redwood bonsai you will see the nice looking ones have lateral branches that are horizontal or slightly angled downward. So the biggest issue to me is the large swelling where the 2 strong upright laterals are attached at a 45 degree upward angle.
The lower ones are more or less what you are looking for.
Maybe you can cut them off and use this side as the rear? It looks like there is one or more horizontal shoots at the same location.

I agree with the branching issues. The tree has zero refinement currently. I am trying to figure out if allowing it to grow out and up potting would I be able to get this trunk to 3-5” wide? Or with the main leader of the tree having been cut already is that a fools mission.

If it is a fools mission I would start trying to refine this tree into a redwood style and just start new raw trees like I was going to do originally.