Starting a 1g nursery shimpaku from PCB

[Japonicus]

In the middle on the back row is this shimpaku March 8th 2020, purchased 10/2019 at Plant City Bonsai


It's been potted up now for 18 months



1st potting April 5th, 2020, 4 months later it was cut back some, no pics.




A great start to the nebari





No the top isn't going to stay straight on the left trunk.
I tore a branch out of the right trunk above the 1st branch and rotated the trunk ~90º counter clockwise
and the left trunk ~90º clockwise.

Plan is to let the tree recover next year before I make any more decisions on trunks. The right trunk really took an insult today
and may not survive. Really can't say yet on the low left branch right out of the nebari. Plan was to sacrifice for girth eventually
but this all depends on the right trunk now.

 

[Japonicus]

rotated the trunk ~90º counter clockwise
and the left trunk ~90º clockwise.

Plan is to let the tree recover next year before I make any more decisions on trunks. The right trunk really took an insult today
and may not survive.

So that was October 2021
This is the result of the insult rotating the trunks 90º each


On an otherwise still very healthy juniper...

Cleaned the dead foliage out ^ yesterday.
Plans are to work the foliage down particularly on the low left straight branch and upper left foliage above that for definition
since I still can't figure it out. I saw something inside it, but the closest interior foliage is too wimpy and leggy
to make it worthwhile and not just jin the entire branch out.
Anyway it survived with only one area of regretful loss of foliage.