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Well,
I wouldn't let a little negativity get you down. These are extremely flexible, tough little trees. If it have been in the container for a while you can start styling, taking it down to a form that you can lock it into. These trees bark up very quickly so gain an aura of age quickly. One thing to remember, in the mountains Iand many other places, trees can have two cycles of growth and "quiescence" per year- not all but many, so you might want to back the ages- between 5 and 20 years of age, and so on.

I am attaching a picture from a tree I worked on with Marc Noelanders during his Texas tour- fun little trees. John