Identifying a pine

[Wires_Guy_wires]

I keep hearing that cascade and/or semi-cascade are hard to execute well. I also keep reading that most newbies tend to choose that design due to the plant already looking like that when they buy it. Personally, that's some advice I take to heart.
If you tilt the pot, then it would make a good windswept too! Or with the right size wire and bending the trunk up again, even an upright tree with a cool curve.
Of course, the tree is yours and you should do whatever you feel is best. I just wanted to point out that I see more options than a cascade.

Good luck with it!

 

[Storm87]

Since I'm a newbie and I'm considering a semi-cascade because the tree is looking like that, I guess I'm about te step in one of the many newbie pitfalls
I'll see if I can figure out how a more upright style feels. A windswept feels a bit challenging.

 

[GGB]

spend a lot of time just looking at it. in 6 months you might start seeing someting, then maybe 6 months after that you'll see something else/better. my plan always slowly gets better when I move slow

 

[Storm87]

Hi! Are those clusters of new candles of cones in the making?

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

The small reddish clusters are pollen sacs. Candles grow mostly upward, and if it produces pine cones, they’re at the tips of the new candles.