Good decisions in my opinion. Good trunk and root structure already, cutting back hard this way will make a nice branch structure. It's always a hard choice to cut back a new tree, but a bad structure won't correct itself without it, so the sooner the better! Personally, I would reduce the upper part, it's too long and straight without taper, but that's just nitpicking hahaha.
Absolutely agree! I used to ignore some of those structure issues hoping they would work themselves out. Of course, they never did. So now I just grab the bull by the horns right from the start. ...usually 🙂
Hey there, this one I just left outside, no shelter or anything. This year I'll probably keep it bunched up with the other trees against the house to protect from wind.
They look fine as a species in most aspects imho. My personal taste is though that the colour of the leaves could be more green, then again I don't fancy yellowish or variegated varieties of any kind. 😄
That makes me wonder if maybe this is some kind of variegated variety. I hadn't really considered that until now. I'll probably experiment putting one if partial sun and the other in full sun and see how they do
