Thread: blue spruce tree with double top trunk
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Old 27-06-2005, 04:28 AM
Stephen Henning
 
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Is it recommended that one of the two top tips be cut off and if so,
which one. the lower or the upper.

Yes and always cut off the lower one, never the highest one. Most
spruce, and especially Colorado Blue Spruce, have a type of apical
dominance that does not transfer to lower branches like it does in most
other plants. This means that if you cut the leader off a spruce, you
will probably end up with a bush and not a tree.

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