Pinus leucodermis schmidtii mini snake skin pine

[Jesters1gamble]

Hello all I purchased my pinus leucodermis schmidtii mini snake skin pine ladt September 2025 I re potted it into the pot it's in now for root spread and growth. It was in just a deep round pot and had a lot of dead needles on the inside. I trimmed up the dead and crossing branches from inside to open up the trunk and inner branches. This year I plan to start a rough shape and direction not sure if it's seen in the photos but I have 3 branches all about the same location around the trunk.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

I don't know the species but it looks like a fun challenge.
One thing I almost immediately do is decide a front and then reduce the branches to two. Either one branch and a trunk, or two branches.
Given this pine just had a repot, I would wait with trimming until you see the outcome of that repot. In autumn they don't grow much, so it's difficult to probe a response. If it has trouble waking up in spring, you know that waiting it out would be a safe option. If it doesn't look hurt in spring, you can wait until the last half of summer, or autumn would be better, before you start cutting stuff off.

 

[Jesters1gamble]

I don't know the species but it looks like a fun challenge.
One thing I almost immediately do is decide a front and then reduce the branches to two. Either one branch and a trunk, or two branches.
Given this pine just had a repot, I would wait with trimming until you see the outcome of that repot. In autumn they don't grow much, so it's difficult to probe a response. If it has trouble waking up in spring, you know that waiting it out would be a safe option. If it doesn't look hurt in spring, you can wait until the last half of summer, or autumn would be better, before you start cutting stuff off.

We actually had a very surprising autumn here in Germany but I am going to wait and see how it responded to the re pot. Granted right now it's still a beautiful green and healthy looking even after the freaking -10 to -20c temps we had a week ago.