First Japanese Black Pine - styling help

[Xanthe93]

Hi, this is my first Japanese Black Pine bonsai

I ordered a Japanese Black Pine 'Yatsubusa' that had been grafted onto a regular JBP rootstock, the whole thing is about 10 years old. It arrived today in the post and I've noticed inverse taper along the trunk. Is there any way to correct this without doing a trunk chop?

I think maybe air layer the top braches and then the trunk might backbud. If so, should I do one airlayer at a time?

It seems to have a bulge both at the graft line and the top where all the branches meet. I'm not keen on trunk chopping it as I did that to a Picea Glauca which promptly died. Or should I leave it alone and put it in the ground and hope the inverse taper goes away?













thanks in advance

Xanthe

[Xanthe93]

Forgot to mention the tree is about 30cm high not including roots and the trunk is about 3 - 4 cm near the base

[Daluke]

Bump

[gerald randall]

Daluke

This is a great specimen. Especially considering it is still in a bag. I'm going to give you the advice you probably have been given, but do not want to hear. Plant it in the ground for 3-4 years. It will make a massive deference to the tree's development.

Cheers