Do I need to make a jin on the trunk (which is now
pointing straight down), or can I just cut it off?

You can cut it flush with the trunk. After the cut dries, you
can disguise it with a MinWax wood stain pen in whatever shade
the bark is.

I feel, however, that a cascade without jin is something of a
contradiction in terms. Cascades by their very nature represent
trees that have struggled for survival on the windy edge of a
cliff or an erosion-prone streambank where limbs would naturally
be damaged, dies and break off.

Other juniper forms can be done jinlessly (and I suppose a
cascade can be as well; it just doesn't seem as likely).

It is, however, YOUR tree. ;-)

Jim Lewis - jklewis @nettally.com -- "Jinlessly" -- a new (and
absolutely horrible) adverb. May it never again see the light of
day. ;-)

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