Thanks everyone for their thoughts.
The long straight branch on the left side in the first photo of the tree after it was repot, is a branch I haven't fully decided about. Ive thought about wrapping it in raffia and putting some movement into it and bringing it back in closer to the trunk. But I've also been thinking about jinning it too. I originally planned on jinning it after the tree started to push out for a season since I removed almost 75% of the foliage, which is why I didn't wrap it and pull it in closely. But later after looking at it further and talking about it with a few other people, I thought about keeping it as well. Not sure yet what I'll do.
As far as getting some more movement in the trunk, I did get a little movement out of it bringing the end forward (hard to tell in the pictures), but now that I look at it, it does need more movement so it doesn't look so parallel to the main trunk.
And as far as getting some better pictures, I probably can't until later in the summer/fall because it's back at my friends house who lives about an hour away from me. My own personal camera doesn't take great up close shots, so I'd either have to take the tree back for a bit and borrow a better camera, or borrow a better camera and take it to his place. Either way, it probably won't happen until later this summer, but I'll try for sooner and post if I can get em.
Oh, by the way, I personally felt like the 1st/2nd pictures in the 3rd post where the tree was repotted was the front, and the back was the 3rd/4th picture. I know that would hide the jin and shari more, but thats how I felt about the tree originally, but I do have 2 good fronts, which is always better than 1... or none....
Thanks for the comments
well, that's just saddening ..
