3-4 Year Old Gingko Forest Thoughts

[Firstflush]

Did this arrangement a few years ago. Thinking on whether I want to ax the whole thing or keep it as is. It is really growing very strongly.
Any guidance or opinions?

Right now the anticipated front at 6 o’clock


3 o’clock

12 o’clock

9 o’clock

Interesting trees.
A true twin and a natural “s” curve trunk.

 

[Firstflush]

Need another pic that would be helpful, please let me know.

 

[MHBonsai]

What do you imagine as your final image?

Can you do a sketch of what you want this to be?

Once you have the final result in your head it’s a lot easier to make decisions to head that direction.

 

[Hartinez]

3 o’clock looks the best to me. This planting just needs time and more time.

 

[Shibui]

3 o'clock for me too. It shows the best depth with smaller trees behind and the quirky bet trunk to the left.
Ginkgo do grow fast each spring but thicken and develop branching real slow. No problem with trimming growing spring shoots but you'll usually only get 1 replacement shoot hence the slow increases in branching. I seem to get more buds when pruning older, hardened shoots so if you can stand to let it get out of hand let them grow all summer then cut back each spring to get more shoots. Later (in 20 years or so LOL) when you have a few branches you can then pinch new shoots to maintain a neat outline.

 

[HoneyHornet]

I’d leave it be for about 10 yrs

 

[HoneyHornet]

I’m in a similar place but those are more lignified

have a bunchh of saplings I wanna plant up and just leave , they are kind of in temporary holding, the ones in cups I might leave til they fill the cup that was the idea wit clear cups but I have a bucket of them just in some rough mix that’s mainly organic

I figure if the 30 or so I could spare some to plant up nice and shallow in a little scenic arrangement

 

[Firstflush]

I may keep the shallow style pot but just go with more area. I just dont know if they can girth up in this container. This pot is probably already filled with roots.

 

[HoneyHornet]

I may keep the shallow style pot but just go with more area. I just dont know if they can girth up in this container. This pot is probably already filled with roots.

Yea that’s of course the only downside, I suppose would best method be to keep sizing up the container till it fills with roots to get maximum growth before going for a stunting move like reducing back down into a shallow pot