Do you have a plan or idea for this tree yet?
it's actually three different trees in post #101.
as far as development thoughts, i have a few.
looking at the second tree for an example, though I'm doing this stuff to all of them whenever the time is right.
1. grow sacrifice till the lower trunk is as thick as i want it to be.
2. when these small branches start getting vigorous with long candles and seem like they're getting big I'm going to start decandling to induce back budding and keep internodes short. these are sacrifice branches, too.
3. hopefully I'll be able to pop adventitious buds close to the trunk after decandling if they haven't already started showing up(they have). these buds will be future branches.
4. when the trunk is thick enough for my liking I'll chop to the bud i want to be the next section of trunk. the type of look I'm going for is a root base, 1st and 2nd section of trunk for some semblance of taper, then apex.