Hi all, I’ve got a couple maples that I’d like some styling thoughts on for when I get round to working on them (2 separate threads for ease). They were air layered around 5 years ago now and haven’t really had much done to them apart from a few small cuts, a repot and mainly letting them grow out.


This one has some unsightly branch structure/lack of taper going on from the original branch which needs attended to - I initially thought to let it grow out bigger to become more proportional but not so sure now.

Any thoughts welcome - labeled for easier reference.

Tree is around 95cm / 37” tall from the soil
Pot is 27cm / 10.5” square

I don't know what you want this tree to become in the future. But I would go for trunk B.

And as always, it is your tree and you are the artist, not me.

Thanks. Relatively new to this so just wanted to gather thoughts/learn logic with the trees I have.