One panty hose is enough to tie around an entire dwarf three branch stucture . Knee high you can streatch to tie a couple branches together. I also use an 1/2 " PVC grey electic pipe to first insert about 6" to 12" into the ground and use the anckle high to tie a branch or a leader to it to train the branch for future structure. If you want to mimic nature , I use th grey PVC pipe driven into the ground and take a 5 gal. tree and plant it so that the trunk is at up to a 45* angle and use a knee high nylon to tie the trunk to the PVC for support so that it looks like a partially wind blown tree to lean over a hill or over a creek from it's bank. Later prune the branches to a desired shape. Or if you need to straighten a leader branch or want to form a new one , I use a bamboo 3 ft. long stake at a needed location on the tree and tie a branch to it at mutiple locations with anckle high nylons.
