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Norway Spruce

Derrick.Shepard

13 years ago

I bought this Christmas of 2012 as a living Christmas tree.
In the hopes of Creating a Bonsai Christmas tree to last generations. after Christmas I put in garage. and kept it there for the winter. early spring/late winter I put it outside. and mid spring I cut the burlap off. and washed the crappy clay soil out of the roots. I cut the roots back 1/3. and thinned out the branches to create space in between layers. and repotted with good soil into the training pot. Tree seems happy so far. Any suggestions?My plan is to bring it back in for Christmas #2. Next year to do more work So eventually ill have a majestic Norway to Create a tradition with.

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fred
13 years ago
WOW what a great idea. The problem is the more you spend time to care for it, the less you would want the children near it come Christmas time... :-)
I dont know much about spruces. I emmigrated from South Africa to NZ 9 yrs ago. In SA someone gave me a dried spruce twig as a gift from Sweden. That twig i still have with me here in NZ. I have it mounted outside my garage door. It still moves with the humidity. Up with low and down with high humidity. In SA it mostly worked the upper ranges and here in NZ it mostly works the lower ranges. Its as dry as cork but accurate as ever...!
I have allways been wondering if spruce trees does that while they are growing in the ground. Does your tree do that?
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