Thanks.. Yes I guess I shouldnt have taken ALL the foliage from the top .. I figured I just wanted to leave the growing tip so it would keep growing vertically without taking all the energy from the bottom par of the tree... that was my reasoning behind it anyway.. Ill see once itstarts getting new growth wehther it will add thickness and if not ill take it out..
Nice job!. The trunk is not going to get thicker. The only way to get that trunk thicker would have been to let the tree grow freely in the ground for a few years. Just keep this in your mind:
* Once you style a tree to become a Bonsai, forget about greatly increasing thickness of the trunk.
The thickness of the trunk is the first thing you must achieve when creating a Bonsai, then you go from there. Yes there are methods to get some thickness on the trunk after you've knock off branches and top. You can use sacrifice branches, but this is not going to get you that much thickness, this will only improve details, help a bit with tapper and such.
You did a great job with this little tree. It will look young and have a thin trunk. Just go from there, don't expect it to become a masterpiece. Make use of sacrifice branches and work on ramification, in a few years it will look very nice, but again, don't expect a masterpiece with a huge trunk. eventually you will have more experience, and will acquire more serious material, with thicker trunks.