Hmmm...Speaking of mugo I would like you to see my first styling of the mugo I got from Vance at the show. Wire was biting in so I just replaced with heavier copper and did a redirection of lower left branch. Turned out better than I expected. I want to call it View attachment 259839Vance Drogonson if it continues to improve ( wView attachment 259839ith Vance and Mike approval of course).
I don’t know how Vance had it going, but I’m not a fan of the way that lowest left branch is going. Assuming the picture is taken from the front, that branch emerges from the trunk on the right side, and is bent back across the trunk to eventually go all the way over and towards the back.
Let’s just say that goes beyond “stretching” the rules! Lol!!! Here’s the deal: you can pull tricks like that when bringing branches around from the back to the tree to the front, but you can’t take branches across the front of the trunk.
I suggest you should search for a different front, and/or planting angle.
Also, that heavy wire you used to wire the two lowest branches: there isn’t a good anchor, and the wiring isn’t very secure. I bet if you wiggle one branch, the other wiggles, too! (Push down on one, and the other will move up, like a see-saw!). You ran that wire in between the crotch formed by the two branches. There’s no anchor. The wire should go around the trunk or at least around the crotch to make an anchor and be more effective.