barguy8194
Yamadori
There are some leftover Christmas Dwarf Alberta Spruces in the nursery at the Lowe’s near me. They’re about four feet tall, 2.5”-3” trunks, interesting bark and flare at the base... only problem is, I don’t want a four-foot Christmas tree.
Albertas are difficult to work with from everything I’ve read, especially big-box Christmas nursery stock... these trees wouldn’t even be touched for a year at least, if I bought one, because they’re not healthy straight from the store.
BUT, the question: From my reading, spruces don’t seem to like heavy branch pruning too much, and definitely don’t like too much root pruning. Does anyone think the tree would survive a hard trunk chop? Maybe on the order of half the overall height? Given the tree was allowed to get healthy and go through a growth cycle or two first?
Albertas are difficult to work with from everything I’ve read, especially big-box Christmas nursery stock... these trees wouldn’t even be touched for a year at least, if I bought one, because they’re not healthy straight from the store.
BUT, the question: From my reading, spruces don’t seem to like heavy branch pruning too much, and definitely don’t like too much root pruning. Does anyone think the tree would survive a hard trunk chop? Maybe on the order of half the overall height? Given the tree was allowed to get healthy and go through a growth cycle or two first?