Originally Posted by Vance Wood

There is a difference between being realistic and being negative. In this case it is kind of difficult when you can count all of the branches, primary, secondary and tertiary; include the trunk and apex and still have fingers left on one hand, to give any kind of advise other than let the thing grow in the ground. About the only thin you can do with this tree, as it is now, is kill it trying to make it into something it can not become with the branching it has.