No need to correct you Charles. I thank you and Matt for your advice. I am still undecided as where I want to go with this tree. I actually considered something very close to Matt's virtual in the begining. I was also considering broom or formal upright, but haven't really made up my mind for sure. If you look real close in the close up of the trunk, you can see more buds breaking already. That's the real beauty of growing from seed. At this stage in development anything is still possible.
Interesing thing about this species is how insanely flexible it is in the trunk and branches initially. Before I cut it back dramatically I had to stake the trunk up. Even at about pencil thickness, the wind would catch the foilage and bend the trunk right over. It was flexing in about a 60 degree arc at the base. I cut the plant back basically just to keep it from constantly falling over. Now that trunk is stiff as a board. I don't think wireing of relatively new shoots will be much of a problem, and it appears it will set very fast too. The wood is reported to be very dense, hard, and brittle as it ages.
At this stage I plan on letting it grow out a bit more to thicken up. I plan on doing a series of chops to get some good taper, but will probably wait to start the chops until next spring to deicde on which style I am going after. I want the trunk a bit thicker before I start the chops. Thanks agian for the virtual and sugestions Matt.
Oh.. and as for suitability for bonsai.. I forgot to add in the first post that it roots very easily from cuttings. The picture also shows some of the leaf reduction possible with this species. I've reduced the leaves to about 1/4 inch by 1/2 inch on one of the other seedlings. Normal leaf size is abut 1 1/2 inch by 2 inch.
for those of you interested... heres the page that inspired me:
http://www.geocities.com/erniekuo@s...l.net/guava.htm
and a site with close ups of the flowers:
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Pla...sellowiana.html