larch yamadori

hello have an idea for this larch not easy I does not see itself how to form it the small trunk died

Casper, that's a tough piece to deal with. Do you think a cascade would work?

when you tilted the pot in the last photo you and I was immediately thinking the same thing. I thought maybe style it in a father-son stye with the crazy top twiggy growth of the father/main trunk cut back to that middle grouping of twigs, us that middle as your apex, style the other trunk as jin or as a smaller second tree. But yeah definately a tough piece to work with, but cool looking and worth he trouble. Or maybe even a split trunk in the middle between the two???

I'm sorry I didnt see that the smaller second trunk died-jin it!

Losing the top is a good idea. It will induce taper and eliminate to some extent, the rather straight top portion of the tree. You have put green on the dead branch though.

LOL yeah sorry I made the quicky image before i realized that branch was dead!