Hooray, my pomegranate workout was not in vain. Four of the seven trunks have produced foliage. I call that pretty good! The growth is currently very low, which is not ideal. Those little suckers will be plucked away soon. But I don’t want to remove all of the leaves in order to help it stay alive.

The long term plan for these guys is, well, long. I will develop the branches as they push out. Most of the effort will be thickening up the branches to be in proportion to the trunk. Hopefully I can wire the branches while they are young and green to add movement that the trunks lack. Depending on where the growth comes, I may shorten the trunks. Lastly, I will train branches to hide the ugly chop at the top, like a little hat or wig. Bonsai is about little trees- I have never seen a tree with a flat top trunk like that. But it can be fixed!