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johniferous

Blue spruce ok?

Hey all - I planted this Colorado Blue Spruce in April. I did it right...soil, mulch, watering deeply once a week, some fertilizer etc. So my question is...is the brown, weak looking growth toward the bottom normal? I'm worried that somethings wrong with it.

It did put out new growth in June, but as you can see from the picture it is very short growth...maybe 3 inches. It gets partial to full sun and is about 7 feet tall.

I know it was sheered heavily buy the farm...I bought it before I knew better. I prefer a natural look and plan on just letting it go from here on out.

...Should I get rid of the lowest level of branches? I've seen a lot of blue spruce that have some lower trunk exposed and i think it looks nice.

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