it very well could be, these were from some crappy amazon seed kit and a lot of times stuff is mislabeled if it even germinates to begin with. I'll assume you know how to identify them better than me and go with eastern red cedar.
I still have the little pouch it says pine, of course i may have been mistaken. It's been almost a year and a half since this sprouted. It wouldn't be the first time I swore I had done one thing and turns out it was something else.
I'm really not trying to shape them besides keeping them from having the needles touch the dirt I ended up using a small piece to basically stake it. so far it looks fine, but im definitely not wrapping this thing for shaping yet. I agree there's plenty of time.
So I did some email digging and turns out i got the two mixed up this one is a Norway spruce, the other is a black pine. Go figure...
this is neither a spruce nor a pine. It is probably a cedar or juniper.
in the pic I posted with the wooden box, it's what was labeled on the packaging. Norway spruce and black pine were the only ones I planted. I mentioned before that it is possible that they were mislabeled or something. I'm attaching a pic of what I think was the black pine. I may be totally wrong though, but I was going off of what the baggies said.
