Little update after nearly 2 weeks
Cascade (Kengai) Style, I'll let the current top part grow a little more to thicken the trunk. Roots are in a hovering dirt block, making repotting easier later on and giving me a chance to incorporate some rocks into the design
leaves that look like leaves and less like buds :3
Just a week or two more and I can select, which branches to keep and which to kill. I'll need at least one node on each branch to get a feeling for how it could look when left growing or terminated