It's budding like crazy.I did it today. The roots looked quite nice. My combing and rearranging the roots when I last potted it worked well.
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The final tree sits higher in the pot than I would like. I will lower it at repot next year. The wiring is sloppy. My injury on my right hand really caused issues.
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Thanks for the advice. The roots are now covered.Wow, you did get it to just 2 trunks. Actually looks better than I envisioned. Looking good indeed. I would top dress with sphagnum or something to keep those fine roots on the surface near the trunk alive until the next opportunity to repot. If they dry out and die, you will be on the path to having an ugly volcano of roots rather than a flat, radial root system. At the next opportunity, definitely pot the tree lower in the pot, in order to get a flat radial root spread.