Looking for styling advice on this P. Afra I just brought home

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Looking for some ideas on how I can style this P. Afra. It will be my first time doing much in the way of styling but I've done a lot of research over a couple of years and continue to read and learn. Here's a bunch of photos from different angles of the tree. I'm a really big fan of the type of style shown in the screenshot from LittleJadeBonsai on Instagram and I think I see branches that will work to build a similar style in my own tree. But I'm open to other ideas as well, such as the second last image that's more of a leaning tree Y shape. Just looking for other ideas and some guidance! Maybe you see some potential in other areas I don't see!

I plan to encourage back budding on the base of the trunk in the hopes of helping improve the taper as the bar branch seems to be making a bit of a reverse taper. Thoughts?

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I would lead towards 112706 as a way of creating taper and then having the left branch as the lowest branch, and the right as the new leader. They take cutting back quite well and are near indestructible. I grow all mine with very little wire and just clip and grow. We get plenty of growth here in Israel where it nice and hot. good luck with the tree.
 
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