If you want a bigger tree, buy a bigger tree. Wire the trunk and twist it all around, coil it, move it in, move it out, move it round about...make it cool. Put it in a smaller pot with bonsai soil when it is showing signs of pushing new growth, not before. Google shohin shimpaku for ideas.
I would like to come up your way sometime and check the botanical garden and some nurseries.
Now you can ground-layer or air-layer the cascading branch, it's the easiest and most reliable way to get a new plant from it.
I love your shimpaku, it draws my eye nicely, oddly it reminds me of a women bending down to grab something.
No way! Nice little shohin, just as it is. Good movement and proportions, just needs a little time to settle in.
You can make a rhetorical question about the above. The question of whether or not it is doable to the point of providing two decent pieces of material worthy of developing into two decent bonsai or; just two new and worthless for bonsai in their present state, pieces of raw material. This is the ultimate debate of doing this. This raw material will take many years to become something worth spending time on, assuming that part A and part B survive the encounter. What if both Part A and Part B die?
