Mr.E
Mame
Picked up this tree in March of 2017 from a landscape nursery for 45 dollars or so. I had wanted to try to air layer a branch or two to have some 1 in or so trunks to play with. After looking at it more I didn't find a new trunk segment that I thought would be worth air layering. So I just let it grow all year. I can't find a before picture and I didn't take one today before cutting it down. Since there are no low branches I cut it to the lowest 3 branches which are 20 in off the base. There were no visible buds lower on the trunk and I didn't want to risk chopping it too low, so for now I let it grow and gain some momentum and then cut the branches that are left back hard and hope for the tree to respond with something lower down.