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JP, this is a thread I had looked at earlier. This is one of those threads that I stay away from because anything I would offer would come across as mean or hurting.

But... since I recieved a PM from JP asking for my opinion, good bad, or indifferent, here goes. BTW, Hold on.

As it is, I would probably lose interest in this fairly fast. For me, If I am going to invest any kind of time in a piece, it has to have some real good stufff going on to keep my interest. Otherwise it just sits and flounders, it dies or worse, I give it to some unsuspecting soul that thinks its good and spends the next ten years on a shrub that still looks liks a shrub ten year later.

Literati..forget it. This trunk is thick, stiff and clublike. Great adjectives for some movies, but poor adjectives for bonsai. This bonsai anyway.

I see your only hope as working with whats coming out near the base of this trunk. I see some possibilities for a shohin size tree. The rest of the trunk is useless. I do see some great potential in the top above the red line. There is movement and taper there due to recent prunings. Airlayer that off for a possible shohin and the base. You may end up with two suffcient trees out of one poor one.

Hope that helps, Al