zen

I'm sure too......, sure that it should be ground layered and then trained. This tree is crying to be a grand pine with only one branch down low, a bunch of jins, and a high ever so slightly rounded apex.
But then there's nothing say that you can't do both. You could train it in the garden somewhere, after all, you've already collected it once, and the growth would probably be stronger in the ground.

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~ Alan Watts (1915-1973)

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