Here is the thin one today.
I repotted last year, when collected it went into a tall nursery container as the roots collected with it were vertically long. When I cleaned away the soil I found a long tapering taproot with many roots down low but only one root high where the usable base of the tree was. I cut there, it felt quite risky but had to be done at some point. Luckily the tree didn’t mind, it will be easy to put into or onto something of a suitable size and shape next time around.
So yesterday evening I worked on it a little bit. This is the first time I’ve touched the foliage or branches in any way at all actually. Two spiral wires, two guy wires and some trimming and snipping. I never try to work out all the fine details with a first styling, hard to even call it styling. My first moves on a tree are usually just coarse moves to kind of open the view into the predicted final style, get main branches close, rough outline maybe.. The whole point is just to make the final hoped for image easier to see. Then I sit on it, take time to make decisions that aren’t obvious, look for more things that can be pruned away, things that should be grown out and developed maybe..just look for ways to make it better before going all in.
Depending on many things that could be next month or 10 years later.
Anyways, that’s just me, often enough the result looks terrible like a kindergartener just tried to style a tree but it’s only a first step. This one was pretty satisfying, a couple very simple easy moves and it came out looking surprisingly sharp I thought. So, I think it will stay much the same but get better. I could see jinning that first branch someday down the road but not before trying to use it well first.
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