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Id like my elm to recover, and come back with some serious growth!

What ive done:
Got it home, pulled it out of the two gallon nursery pot

Rinsed the roots and romoved all the old soil.

Trimmed back some of the thinnest low hanging roots

Put it back in the same 2 gal pot with fresh 100% organic soil

Hacked off branch that was sticki g straight up and i wanted the trunk to be the only thing that low. You can see the fresh wound were i cut it off.

That branch held about 50% of the foliage...
the top, i never touched.

My question is, what is the best way to help it grow out? Obviously im anticipating a "leave it alone" response and thats fine, i want to do that. But should i cut off the remaining foliage? Does it look like i could have some promising branches that could turn into thick ramified assets? Or should i put some loose wire on them to bring them down into a bowing position to encourage a change in direction?

DreamsonElmSt wrote: My question is, what is the best way to help it grow out?

I wonder if that should have been: "what would have been the best way to help it grow out?".
You've already trimmed roots, repotted, pruned it. I think you should not have cut off that lower branch (but too late now... so it's no longer relevant).

Obviously im anticipating a "leave it alone" response and thats fine, i want to do that. But should i cut off the remaining foliage?

No. Leave it alone.

Does it look like i could have some promising branches that could turn into thick ramified assets?

Nope, sorry. You only have top growth of which, of course, yes, you can make a selection, grow one branches, that can grow thicker and get more ramified. But you need lower branches to improve the tapering first.

Or should i put some loose wire on them to bring them down into a bowing position to encourage a change in direction?

No. You need lower branches, not high branches bent down.
You could remove a few you don't need. Not now, the tree needs to recover first.

Good think you did the repot in a way though. The soil it was in seems horrible. Do you also have pictures of after the repotting?

I weould probably not have been so drastic on my trimming when also repotting. I guess it is now a game of wait and see, hoping for buds to pop on the trunk, which normally should not be a problem. I see hardly enything in the upper foliage.

let it grow for the rest of the year, and look at styling options in winter.