Hi, Carl.
Nice start.
when you rebuilt the forest, did you use another mesh "scaffolding"?
I recently bought a forest at an auction that had been done in a Colin Lewis workshop, and took it to Chase Rosade's to repot. About two weeks earlier, I had created my first "real" forest at a class with Chase.
Anyhow, he does NOT like the use of a grid, which he says must, sooner or later, be removed, as it will eventually strangle the roots. It was the very devil's work removing the steel grid from the Lewis forest.
Chase uses several other methods of holding the trees in place, as detailed in the
Trident Forest with Chase Rosade thread.
How many trees do you have in your forest? In the view from above, during the potting process, it looks like 7; but in the front view I see 6.
If you do have 7 trees, the one that's "hiding" in the front view should be moved slightly so it can be seen.
From the side, too, all trees (trunks) should be visible.
I'm no expert
, just a beginner, parroting his sensei.
(This forest business is a whole lot less simple than it looks!)