i picked up this little squamata a while back, i would say it is a 2-3 year old rooted cutting, unfortunatly i dont have any before shots, but you can pretty much tell it was typical stock in a small 4 inch pot. what i have done is wire it up, and then just twisted and turned as much as i dared, i did have one branch die off.
i cut that off since and it has just boomed from there.
it has put on a lot of growth, one thing i dont understand is that it has started to show some mature scale foliage upon close inspection, the reason i dont understand this is because i have some other squamata that i have had for 4 years and were bought as mature stock yet they still only show juvinielle foliage
any way from here it is a strong feed and growth program because it will need a lot before i can do any more work to it, as it grows i will have to remove the wire and re wire putting more twists and turns into it, when it reaches a reasonable size which it will need as squamata foliage isnt as compact as shimpaku it will need a slightly larger size, still in the shohin range, looking at an overall height of about 20cm, right now it is about 10cm. and a trunk of hopefully 2-3cm, right now trunk is about half a cm.
jamie
taking the top half of trees of since 2005! 
