Gday Asus!
Seems to me as though your parade is already pretty wet, so it can't hurt if I rain on it a little more...
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Originally Posted by Asus101
There is already shape to the tree, its just been allowed to run free without any pruning for the last year.
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is shape to your tree, but it's only an outline: it is nicely rounded, with the apex where it belongs, but it appears to me that the previous owner achieved this facade at the expense of the
structure of the tree. Come winter and leaf-drop, I suspect that you'll see what others are talking about, and that the 'cascade' branch will display little but a "huge amount of bland boring [stick]".
As it stands, you have 3 branches leaving the trunk at more-or-less the same point, so aesthetically (and rules-wise), one of them will need to go eventually. I vote for the removal of the 'cascade' branch, but for the time being, I'd keep it on board as a taper-builder for the lower trunk. If this branch had reached its current end-point via a series of curves/angles, and/or displayed significant taper, I could be persuaded to keep it. As is, that branch has all the hallmarks of an adventitious shoot which has been (inadvertently) allowed to become the tree's defining 'feature' (in fact, the more I look at it, the more I'm inclined to think the original owner grew this branch out in order to be sacrificed).
Not wanting to leave you in Limbo, I've decided to do a couple of really rough virts to give you an idea where I'd try to take this tree, given its current branching. It may not be what you were wanting to see and hear, but at least I haven't advised you to plant it in the ground or grow box...
I hope all of this makes sense.
Thanks and good luck.
FlyBri.
PS: I think this tree could benefit from a few years of growing in a larger container or a hole in the ground.
