anyway thinking at chopping at the green lines then use the main trunk as the main part of the design with a bit of carving. From there ill let it shoot like crazy the full length of the base an in the end having multiple trunks forming the raft design. Its tilted up a bit right now but will lay it flatter when in going to hang a few pots to grow some roots. 
will be a good tree in a few yrs going for a raft style tree with 10-20 trunks the base will be 90cm wide at ground level have placed some pots to get roots started it did have roots further out but was over 1m wide so decided to reduce it back a bit 
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took a bit of so hoping i get a flush of new shoots which will give me more trunks to chose from looking at doing a large windswept raft design with a lot ot of dead wood the thick trunk will be the main trunk i think so for now ill focus on the trunks an just let them grow for now next spring ill make a grow box for it to grow it on
then the big wrought iron gate an go from there hopeing to have it ready for trees in spring will be able to shade trees next summer if needed 
its a big raft the pot it is in is 99cm long its going to be a big tree but well worth it 10yrs to go on this one 
the mix i used for this tree is 25% crushed river pebbles 75% potting mix with a layer of crushed river pebbles on the bottom of grow box. Did two olives a while ago with a 60-40 mix they have done ok so trying one with less gravel to compare the twodavemc wrote:Hi olivecrazy going to be an amazing tree,just wondering what mix you used to pot up with.
