Christmas trees

[anonymous-user]

My little darling daughter has just snapped the top shoot off a tree i was growing for Christmas(one day). Reading on the old internet seems to give conflicting info, one place saying it will never grow right & another saying a new "leader" will form and all will be fine. Any experts on here? If the bloody thing won't grow right now i'll bin it & start again. fking kids, that tree was for MY Christmas

[Simpo Two]

Normally once the centre leader is broken, buds below it are released from inhibition and start to grow into new branches. Whether they can be trained vertically I suspect depends on the tree, but you will never get it the same shape.

[anonymous-user]

If it makes any difference it's only a piddling little plant right now, about 30cm's high. It was on a right growth spurt.........

Some sites i have been on suggest cutting the leader anyway??!!

[anonymous-user]

Right, all is well in Christmas tree land I trawlled the Internet & found a site that said this would happen, I thought bks but sure enough it did..........

One evening I looked at the sorry tree & noticed the branches below the snapped off leader seemed to be going vertical, I thought I was going mad (+ I was pissed) so left it a while.....

Sure enough the three branches had all started to go vertical, the one that was biggest seem to win the race, the other two then started to return to horizontal!!

The tree now looks pretty normal, well done mother nature!!!

[holloway_dave]

I think it will still look a bit mongy when it grows up. Mum and Dad had a whole paddock full of christmas trees to grow up for a 'pick your own' style thing. A few got the tops nipped out of them by rabbits. The tree still ends up with a vertical trunk, but with a kink in it. Nobody choses those ones of course, so now out of what's left mum and dad have a forest of the ugliest pine trees you've ever seen!

[The Nur]

How tall is it? Bonzai christmas tree?

[anonymous-user]

About 40cm's now, a bit mongey eh?! Oh well, I was hoping as it was so young it would sort itself out as it grows.