Three year Ficus progression with a question, graft this apex?

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This was the second or third? Ficus I got when I first started getting into this. It was a gift and it came from a hardware store sometime in 2018. I had another and had already seen how easily cuttings would take so I got a bit crazy and chopped this into 3 parts. The base is this tree, one is still currently growing as a root over rock, and the third is just....growing doing its thing. Pictured in order of when I got it with the cut shown and a bit of a journey along the way. Warning, there is some miserable wiring in the earlier photos, prepare yourselves! I did not have much of a direction for this tree initially and its kind of won my heart in its..."on its way to some kind of refinement mallasi" that it currently is.

The grafting question is regarding the last/current photo. The 'apex' currently ends in a bit of a "T" shape but I left one long runner headed towards the viewing angle in hopes to use it as the apex. I have not gotten a shoot in the last 2 cut backs where I need it. Should I use the long shoot and approach graft it to the intersecting portion of the "T" shape that the top two branches currently form in order to use it for building an apex?
 

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Current photos. Its pushing lots of new growth as of right now. My plan was to pretty much let it run this year with the exception of maybe approach grafting that branch for the apex. Again, my thought is take the shoot shown in red, and approach graft it to the intersection shown by the arrow. I think it would give the existing trunk line one more section and continue the taper.
 

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I reckon you can, but I think you can faster grow one lower twig into exactly what you want.

I like the new pot.

Sorce
 

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I wish it would pop a shoot up there! I'd rather grow it that way.... we'll see what happens I guess
 

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coming along nicely... that lone ranger aerial root should maybe get smoked??
 

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I wish it would pop a shoot up there! I'd rather grow it that way.... we'll see what happens I guess

I mean regrow the entire thing from this.

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