Bought another plum from my neighbor, Burbank, for $5. Prunus salicina, Santa Rosa Plum. Unassuming pencil thick trunk, but under the soil was a beautiful 1” thick trunk bent like a V, and with decent fine roots in spots and a few long thick roots. Repotted into a colander, pruned the thick roots, and set the trunk to exit the soil at and angle and hook back, but after wiring it I buried the trunk for stability. Applied some wiring to the trunk to center above the bases and put movement into the lower branches that will set once thickened.

May be too late for repotting but will keep in the shade and avoid drying out. One straight thick branch near the base will be sacrificial as it is not likely to bend much. Fatten the base. The main trunk, now with some curve, will eventually cut back after the base is matured.

Plan

Allow fine roots to grow out, fill the colander, until escaping
Grow trunk thicker one year, taper
Train primary branches to have movement and dynamism
Once desired size, cut back for taper, expose more trunk that is buried, develop secondary branches
Repot into a Shohin training pot, shohin size akadama mix

Plum

Plan

Allow fine roots to grow out, fill the colander, until escaping

Grow trunk thicker one year, taper

Train primary branches to have movement and dynamism

Once desired size, cut back for taper, expose more trunk that is buried, develop secondary branches

Repot into a Shohin training pot, shohin size akadama mix