Chinese Juniper styling / wiring

ACrawl

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Hey everyone. Well, this is my first time wiring more than two branches at a time on a tree lol. I’m fact, it’s only my third time applying wire. Anyway,
Just wondering what your thoughts might be. See anything other than a slightly informal upright? Or any advice for eventually making this a beautiful informal upright? Before and after below.

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Oh yes I see more than formal upright.
With the right size wire and maybe some raffia, you would be able to fold and bend the trunk into anything you want.

You did a good job of wiring the branches and not removing too much! I would bend them a little lower so they droop a little right from the trunk.

Using a heavier gauge wire over the smaller gauge could be difficult to manage in the sense that you cant uncoil them without clipping, but I do recommend playing around a little and see if you can get that trunk into some movement.

On the bottom of the trunk that might be difficult, higher up it should still be very flexible. You can think about using the planting angle in the future to get the viewer to think there's movement down low on the parts that are too stiff to bend.
 
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