...unless you're totally into straight up trees, make sure you start to give them some good shape. It is much easier at this time to bend the little guys, than it is a few years down the road. These seedlings you see here are 1 1/2 yrs old. I started them from seed with the intentions of making most into cascade shohin. When I transplanted them into their larger container/ training pots last March, I did so along with a wiring task also. Since then with a good fertilizing regiment, they are coming along really well. A few even have the wire starting to bite into the trunk, something that is encouraged at this state of the game with JBPs.