I am trying to do a simple cascade with a young Shimpaku. No jins, sharis, or
wild contortions. I have been looking for inspiring pictures on the Web, but
the ones I found were awful. Can anyone point me to some good ones?
Also, the plant I just got has a trunk about 2 feet tall, no significant
taper, with two branches near the bottom 12 & 14 inches long. After my husband & I
wrestled some 6 mm. wire onto it & I made the Big Bend, I realized that it is
unlikely i will be able to get that trunk into any meaningful zigzags. What
if I cut the whole thing off & use the 14" branch as the tail? Then I will get
some taper, and the tail is flexible enough to manipulate easily. It leaves
the other branch at the top of the Big Bend for an apex or secondary tail (with
or without contortions). Do I need to make a jin on the trunk (which is now
pointing straight down), or can I just cut it off?
Iris

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