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Hi all, I'm new to this bonsai forum in fact to be honest bonsai in general and I have a question regarding my japanese acer maple. I purchased my japanese maple from a bonsai nursery in January 2016 as a young starter tree and when it arrived it stood 6-7 inches high and a 1 cm thick trunk of which i presume the year before it had been choped down as it has a healing wound on the top and from that wound in the top comes three, two inch long branches which themselves had been cut square. So I repotted the tree into a nursery pot and good soil I purchased with the tree from the nursery and I'm happy to say 6 months on its doing really well with lots of growth from the top of the trunk and the trunk has grown slightly aswell. So my question is if I were to continue to let it grow for a few more years or how ever long it takes for the trunk to thicken up to desired thickness, what do I do next to get the correct branch structure as at the moment the branch structure is over the place (i understand that ive got to leave it to grow wild and un touched untill trunk thickens) and there in all the wrong places and to high up the tree even though it's got a lot of growing still to do what do I do when the tree has its lovely thick trunk to get the branch structure required?
I have a few pictures here aswell.

Often the branches that grow during trunk development are useless for your bosai. They will be very thick and coarse.
Depending on the amount of growing, you could either just accept that, and remove them completely as you think the tree is thick enough, or you could every other year remove the thickest branches selectively, that way always having branches that are of a suitable thickness.

Once you start training the bonsai canopy, you will need to cut all the branches to keep, back to stubs from which the rest of the tree can be formed.

Rob_phillips wrote: ... when it arrived it stood 6-7 inches high and a 1 cm thick trunk ...

There are a few rules that are not carved in stone (go ahead break one, or two)... one, ...the trunk proportion . If you want a foot tall tree, you need an inch of trunk at the base. Then, you need really cool roots, coming out of the base.

It's going to take a few years, relax, and keep it alive,

Samantha wrote:

Rob_phillips wrote: ... when it arrived it stood 6-7 inches high and a 1 cm thick trunk ...

There are a few rules that are not carved in stone (go ahead break one, or two)... one, ...the trunk proportion . If you want a foot tall tree, you need an inch of trunk at the base. Then, you need really cool roots, coming out of the base.

It's going to take a few years, relax, and keep it alive,

Hi there cheers for your reply yeah I'm looking forward to letting it grow on and seeing what it becomes. I suppose what I was worried about was if I leave it for a few or more years at the end when I've decided that the trunk looks really good and I haven't done any thing to it apart from look after it and let it grow it may end up with a lot of piontless branches too high up the tree and nothing for the first branch and so on. I've never grown a young starter tree so still learning as I go along but to be fair i will see how it looks in a few years in and im sure it will be all good.

Here are a few upto date pics of the tree

Rob_phillips wrote: but to be fair i will see how it looks in a few years in and im sure it will be all good.

Nice pictures, it would be better if you put them on the forum, makes it much easier to find them, for future reference.

That's what i was going to suggest. let it grow a bit. Maybe a bigger pot, put it in the ground next spring.

I tried to put them straight on the fourm but it would not let me

reduce the size to below 1000px on the longest side and you should be fine.

You first develop roots, then the trunk and only then do you worry about branches, especially for most deciduous trees.