GYO Christmas Trees

[marigold007]

Hi,

I bought a Norway Spruce in a pot last year from a nursery. It was small but I figured I could repot it for a couple years and reuse it. It was in a very small pot for its roots and by the time I got around to repotting it in the Winter I found that the main root was growing out the bottom. And, yeah, okay, I forgot to water it a few times and gave it regular seaweed feed, eventually causing lots of the needles to fall out on the bottom branches, and the ends started to shrivel. I did eventually repot it (with regular top soil) into a terracotta pot and got around to giving it eracacious feed last week. It's had some new growth up top, over the Spring and Summer, but the bottom branches are still brown but bendable and not entirely crispy. Can it be saved and "greened up" in time for Christmas if I moved it to a sunnier spot, gave it some proper compost, etc?

[SarzWix]

The bottom brown branches will probably not green up again; if you pruned them off altogether, would it look ridiculous? The tree itself must be ok though, or it wouldn't be sprouting new green growth at the top. Give it some TLC and it'll keep growing.

[marigold007]

Thank you very much. I've pruned it on your advice. It looks a lot better! Perhaps, it's natural for the tree to lose the very bottom branches as it gets taller. It looks more like a tree now.

I have attached a photo.

[burnie]

I never had any success with trees in pots,found it better to plant out after hardening off in the green house.Finally gave up and got an artificial(I know , I know)

[SarzWix]

Oh good, I'm glad I'm a softie with plants, I hate any of them to die