I have read about growing trees in the ground to increase trunk
size. The
one article i read said that if you do a formal upright style
you have to
jin the top portion. Is there anyway around this? Could anyone
point me to
some other good articles on this subject please. Thanks in
advance.

That's the easy way. You don't have to wait for a cut to "heal"
if you make it into a jin at the top.

If you want a tree with no jin (a novel approach in these days of
jin that look like twirled spaghetti ;-) you have to work the
chop scar into the taper at the top. That takes a lot longer.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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