I have several starts from the UC Germplasm folk leafing up outside (hopefully they are rooting up as well!) and I need to know what to do with them when they get going.

I want to make a weeping standard, so I have to get the tree to grow up (maybe not STRAIGHT up, though!). Should I

A) Tie it to a stick.

B) Lie it on the ground (I have an alley that would be perfect for this is why I ask.)

C) Get really weird and hang it upside down in a container.

D) I'm an idiot because I should just graft it to a nonweeping piece

Unfortunatly I don't know how to graft and I'd like to shape the trunk (a la Arbosculpture.) Ideas?

Right now they are each about a foot high, so I have awhile.