one or two trunks?

[mfantus]

I just received a very nice s. giganteum bonsai starter with a 1" trunk on it from giant-sequoia.com. The owner, Joe, stocks a lot of pre-bonsai material that he hand selects from the seedlings of desirable parents in the wild, this specimen is not an exception but it has a running start on a twin trunk. I was really after the nice single trunk pyramidal shape. I could hack half the trunk off and let the remaining branch become the new apex but something has prevented me from doing this- probably the lack of confidence it would ever look how I want and partly from a purely philosophical view.

Should I work with what I have or cut the tree in half and force the tree into drastic training to get what I think I want out of it?

I worry it will just be a tree in a pot if I don't...

thanks for any suggestions or help.

Michael

[shipsquartersfarm]

Hey Michael--

Nice twin trunks are certainly more unusual than single-trunked trees, so if you have material that wants to be a twin trunk, then I would probably go that way.

I do have to confess to a fondness for twin trunks, though.

Could you post a picture of your tree?