Styling options. Suggestions and opinions please?

Johnathan

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Okay guys its been about 2 weeks since I butchered this tree. I went nuts and was overly excited so I cut a lot of stuff off. :oops:

I've been kind of bummed since I realized I left pretty much nothing but while looking at it today I was hit with the idea of a windswept look.

Here are a lot of pics from eye level and a little above for to help get your ideas going. Also a draft of potentially what I'm thinking, of course it'll be wired into that direction but I don't know anything lol

Please leave thoughts, suggestions, pointers, tips, advice everything you got:D
 

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defra

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You could go windswept.... windswept is hard to pull off tough

I would just leave it alone for some time to recover and new growth wich may provide beter options in the future
 

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On the spirit of"The Graduate", I have one word for you
So far you've done the opposite. Maybe this August, maybe not until next season, you can wire it and bend the stems to make them into interesting curves and to bring the foliage closer to the trunk. Until then, think about how you might do this while letting this one grow. Get another one and try again. Get something different too. Your Bonsai is in the bottom 6-8 inches - buy it and work to make a compact canopy atop it
 
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The lower trunk view is blocked by foliage in almost every picture so it makes it difficult to find the best trunk line but based on the pics you have I like pic #23 as a twin trunk slant style.
 

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That was I was looking at. It has more secondary branching on that side as well. I was considering possibly trying to jin/shari that trunk shooting to the left and wiring the right side to increase the windswept feel

Yes there are enough branches you could do a first styling on now but I'm not sure about windswept for this tree. I would wire the apexes on both right trunks upward like they are reaching for the sun. Do some research on slant style and you may get some inspiration. Yes jin the most interesting branches on the left side for now. You can always remove later.
 

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I would still leave it alone the rest of the season you might get rewarded ;)
 
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