Let's see those dwarf Alberta spruce jams

[Cruiser]

Repotted September. Back budding and ramification are developing nicely.

 

[NeedlesAndLeaves]

About there years from being a christmastree.
Repotted it last spring. Still a lot to improve but is has been growing healthy!

 

[Stormwater]

anyone know why so many of these fork at that exact spot near the base? are they grafted?

 

[August44]

About there years from being a christmastree.
Repotted it last spring. Still a lot to improve but is has been growing healthy!

Like that! Good job.

 

[BrightsideB]

anyone know why so many of these fork at that exact spot near the base? are they grafted?

Probably just genetics.

 

[NeedlesAndLeaves]

Like that! Good job.

Thanks
I shaped another smaller one shortly after. I wanted to create something beyond the usual straight trunk. And to see how far I was able to bent it.
“Severly” bending a spruces can induce backbudding at places where the tissue is slightly torn I understood. It seems like at least one bud followed that principle.

I am still figuring out if I like it or find it fugly. Or what it could be in the future.
Thoughts or criticts are welcome.

 

[Cruiser]

Plantation Forest.

September. Canopy thinned (nodes reduced, branches shortened, crown gaps added to allow more light in).

 

[James W.]

anyone know why so many of these fork at that exact spot near the base? are they grafted?

Has to do with the branches selected for rooting, a multi-trunk tree will make a fuller wider bush quicker so that is preferred although they don't put in a lot of effort either way on DAS. Other varieties of dwarf white spruce are often chopped to encourage many trunks.