It looks good. I like the tree. I like the pot. I don't like the tree in the pot. Its not my tree or my pot, so my liking does not matter. Just a thought, a round pot might be better until you develop some balance. Then you'd have an empty pot to fill too....
Fare enough.
In its current state its tricky. Lots of long/ low-hanging branching on the right and very little on the left. The heavy trunk line goes left, but there is a lot of activity up there going right. The tallest point is actually from a back branch. I suggested the round pot based on all of that, and the rounded canopy. Obviously its still in development and in a few years won't look like it currently does when in that rectangle pot. Its a neat tree, and has a great Halloween seasonal look to it.
Yes...I cut much off at repot. I need to grow a new leader. Its a 10inch tree and constantly being cut back. More noticable by the right tilt this repot. I discussed my change of angle with Mike Lane. Who I purchased the tree from years back. Who agreed it a good direction with the trunk movement to tilt to the right. In doing so many branches were removed from the left side to take it into this new direction. But its a BC. They develop fast. So not an issue. I appreciate your assessment. I think it is a cool tree no matter if its being redesigned...that trunk is wicked cool. Yes...haunted graveyard look to it dormant.
I am planning a swamp droopy cypress like this! Damn that gives me one heck of a goal!
The benefits of a smaller collection is more time invested into each one, than spread out over a large group. Prebonsai can be counted...shoot all of them if we want to be real. Because they take our time tending. That's the point on counting...and what we are comfortable with.At last count back in the fall I had ~150 trees...most NOT bonsai...but I do use bonsai techniques on all of them from time to time. Probably 30-40% of my stock most knowledgeable people would tell me I have no business growing in my climate. I've killed more willows than redwoods...the willows get neglected, the redwoods are babied. That's the writing on the wall telling me to downsize...I don't have the time to take care of them all propperly
Sometimes...its fun to see how fast ones multiply.You all could have warned me about this when I first posted here.
8 months in and I think 4 months here talking with all you I'm at 16 at the moment with many more planned.
Very cool. I’m growing some from seed but I will have to wait 15 years until they bloom
That's exactly how I feel, I keep my count REALLY low. I have a small yard so every ugly little project is in full view. Such a pretty art in the final stages but a recipe for a strange hoard along the way. My dream is to have a yard big enough to hide my rough material. Until then.. I keep a tight 15. One comes in and one goes out, keeps my spending honest. not going to buy a $15 rooted cutting and then toss out a semi-developed tree to make space. That cycle is why I'm always selling something
Look into the American Wisteria. You will have blooms way earlier than that. Second year if not mistaken. Growing this from a 12" sucker.Very cool. I’m growing some from seed but I will have to wait 15 years until they bloom
it's only 10-12 species. (Un)fortunately, many of my from seed are over-populated because more germinated than I expected. And those that germinated are taking my abuse much better than expected. And there's the problem that to get to a decent 12" tree like I want I need to go through a 12' tree first! Or wait a lot longer. Some for the native tree contest...some for the forest contest...the rest just because I was bored and wanted to mess with something to see what it would do...or I tried something because someone said it was hard/not possible, etc...I don't fret none if this group dies 
