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Plain old lil'tree novice
Join Date: Jan-2004
Location: East Bay Area, California
Country: U.S.A.
Posts: 86
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I dunno if the way I did this will help, or just be annoying, but I tried to help define the tree better than the pictures were able to show due to their 2 dimensional nature.
As I wrote before, I think this tree might make a convincing windswept design with some wiring over the course of time. The wind coming from what is the right in this picture.
Ok. In this picture and the one below:
“A” represents a branch that points forward, so I’ve been thinking of keeping it as an “escape branch” as Matt described in his lesson in order to contribute to the taper of the main trunk or leader that is represented as “B.”
Since A is growing from such a visible location on the primary, I thought I would also wire it into a more interesting, less upright shape, and then use it as a short jin after about a year rather than have such a large scar in front of the tree. I am increasingly convinced that a little bit of jin often looks more convincing than a lot of jin, but it would be easy to make it look as if the branch succumbed to the force of the wind by bending it to the left at some point.
The circle in “A” represents the foliage of the branch, which significantly blocks the view of the branch structure behind it.
“B” approximates the line of the apical leader.
“C” approximates the line of the lowest existing branch, which I am considering removing, or bending back to the left in keeping with the windswept design.
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