Maybe you remember this cutie.

He did very well over the break. But, he needs work. That secondary trunk never pushed any growth, so it needs to go. Also, I need to carve up that ugly stump at the bottom. Using my new toys from Christmas, I got to work!

This all is gonna get a makeover.

No more bare stick of a trunk!

And here is the makeover! I smoothed out the stump to make it a more natural, single trunk. These photos show the “front” and “back;” I might flip the original front once I play with it more. I will also drastically reduce the height now that I have a cute, tapered trunk. But, I will let this heal up before I put it through any more stress.

See how un-proportional the height is to the thickness of the trunk? I will likely cut it down to that first patch of foliage, rendering all of that wiring work useless. That’s okay; I have learned since I first worked on this tree.