Specialty Gardening: Beginner juniper bonsai, 1 by granitegneiss

granitegneiss wrote:
Here is side view (see previous post for top view). I've removed some branches as you can see, and tried to add some undulation to the trunk, which is hard in a tree so small, but perhaps you can see a change, not sure if it will be obvious to anyone but me!

Now for the questions.
I put an arrow on one of the branches just to help be sure we are talking about the same things. The branch with the arrow I'm thinking, when it gets long enough, of taking under the tree and over to the other side to reinforce the feel of the wind. Good or bad idea?

The pair of branches above the marked one (easier to see in top view, since one of them just blends into trunk in side view): I'm thinking of leaving the one on the left to grow and become a jin someday, and keep the one on the right, but how to shape that one, I'm not sure. Is the jin thought not so good, maybe just remove the branch?

Finally, the major branch at the base of the tree. I'm wondering if that entire branch should become jin someday, since it angles right into the wind at it emerges from the trunk, and though I've bent it toward the side in what I hoped was a logical manner, perhaps the argument that it doesn't make it is a good one, and it was so low on the trunk anyway it is better not to have it in the end?
Thank you for any additional thoughts you might have.

This message was edited Oct 28, 2009 12:33 PM