I wanted to update this thread with my tree and a few thoughts I’ve been having about it. Here is the tree as it stands.
I had imagined this as the front as in my naivety I just instinctively admired the sort of natural look of the multiple points on the dividing trunk lines and the one strong surface root facing towards the viewer but not straight on.
So I am imagining and visualizing what height and proportion I want the tree to be, and looking and turning it around and I started seeing this line that would hide a good amount of scars from reduction and provide a nice line, but it puts my value of the trunk line in question and drastically reduces the overall branches. I imagine and have mentioned I’d start air layering off suggested and even more branches, and this is the idea I had.
Choosing this as the new front,
This view may be creating a sight of inverse taper and so I’ll ask for some feedback about what you all see, but if I cut branches here I think it creates solid motion and taper towards the viewer while moving laterally, while saving a view from many unsightly scars as well although there may be the one near the apex. What do y’all think? Clearly it would be a drastic reduction but I think it’d give the tree a bit of that Elm informal upright kind of taper and movement. There’s always cutting it back to a stump and growing smaller branches and a very short tree, but I was kind of trying to envision what I could do with it preserving as much of the height it currently has, maximizing the taper it has. I can’t seem to envision a way that I utilize the current branching and multiple trunk sort of thing happening with losing all the taper in the tree. Any and all comments and suggestions will be considered and I appreciate your looking at this.