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I got this hinoki (Chirimen) earlier this year and would like to decide on its styling. I’d appreciate any ideas/suggestions to help me with it. Thank you all in advance.
Thank you for your comments, Kanorin.I agree that it's too young to "style it" as people commonly use that term around here. Usually that lingo refers to a point in the tree's progression where the trunk thickness is at or close to it's final desired size and you start to make decisions on the final trunk line and at least the primary branches (which to keep, which to bend, angles to bend, etc).
BUT, you can start to add some interest to the trunk line to set the tree up to be an interesting tree. It's probably too late to do major trunk bends (it's also very tough to do major trunk bends with hinoki in any case), but you could apply some guy wires to start working in some gentle bends in the trunk.