Hi,
This is all just my, inexperienced opinion, so please don't act upon it without a better opinion from someone such as @sorce .
Personally, I see it like this:
http://imgur.com/a/HDX1B
The bottom half would become a shohin at the lowest red line, it'd be chopped there (making sure to be high enough above the branch and new shoot as to not disturb them).
Then the double red lines at the higher end would be where an air layer would be done to create a second tree. The yellow middle section would be completely discarded AFTER the air layered top half is complete.
I'm sure someone could possibly do something with that middle section or may have a completely different plan but personally, its an ugly section, its horizontal and I cant see it being a part of either tree.
This would still leave the bottom tree, shohin, with that big branch at the top of it which, personally, I'd have thought wasn't good... As it gives it a big branch on top and new branches below, inverse taper in terms of branches, but I would guess it'd have to stay to provide energy to the shohin so it can develop more branches and buds all over the trunk. Possibly in the late future, it could be removed but that's just a theory.
I hope someone else can give you their opinion.
This is all just my, inexperienced opinion, so please don't act upon it without a better opinion from someone such as @sorce .
Personally, I see it like this:
http://imgur.com/a/HDX1B
The bottom half would become a shohin at the lowest red line, it'd be chopped there (making sure to be high enough above the branch and new shoot as to not disturb them).
Then the double red lines at the higher end would be where an air layer would be done to create a second tree. The yellow middle section would be completely discarded AFTER the air layered top half is complete.
I'm sure someone could possibly do something with that middle section or may have a completely different plan but personally, its an ugly section, its horizontal and I cant see it being a part of either tree.
This would still leave the bottom tree, shohin, with that big branch at the top of it which, personally, I'd have thought wasn't good... As it gives it a big branch on top and new branches below, inverse taper in terms of branches, but I would guess it'd have to stay to provide energy to the shohin so it can develop more branches and buds all over the trunk. Possibly in the late future, it could be removed but that's just a theory.
I hope someone else can give you their opinion.
