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Great, now I can see. Looks like it is time to wire!

Wire the whole trunk entirely first from base out to that branch on the upper right. Poke the wire down into the soil till it bottoms out and then wire your way up to the top. Keep the coil spacing nice and even from top to bottom and applied correctly it should look more like a peppermint spiral than a tightly coiled spring. About 3 turns to the first branch, no more and the same spacing all the way up.

1) bend the trunk so it emerges from the soil at an angle

2) Make the trunk bend away from your first branch there. The one coming straight forward should become a side branch, your first branch. The tree comes out of the soil leaning towards it and then bends away above it.

3) Cut off the long branch at the top upper right. Save the larger of the buds. (The nice one coming forward) and save the branch coming off to the right, which will become the new leader. It would be best to remove those items before wiring, but I am trying to be clear as I move through the tree from bottom to top.

4) Twist and bend the trunk again so that this bud, the nice fat one, winds up on the other side opposite the branch in step 2) and

5) Twist one of the buds in the leader up to be the new apex and point the other out as a branch.

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