How do you prune a Christmas tree?

I have brought a small 1 ft tall fir tree from forest and i have planted it in a 12 inch pot in the summer. It is doing fine now, I water and fertilize it regularly and keep it in a well lighted, warm room.



The tree does not have a good shape to it now,



How do start pruning the tree to hel it grow fuller and how do I make it grow in the tradidional cone-shape?



(I want to keep it in a pot, so I don't want it big...more like a mini-christams tree)

How do you prune a Christmas tree?
Being a native or wild tree, it will eventually grow too big for your pot. It will also need to experience winter temperatures, so do not keep it in the house all winter. But do protect the roots by placing the small pot in a larger pot and pack with peat moss.

When your tree's branches are big enough to trim, just trim the growing tips, forming the shape you want - and they will sprout multiple new shoots that eventually will give you a bushy little tree.

Feed with a high first number fertilizer in the spring.
Reply:Well, this question is probably going to be taken to court by the ACLU Report It
Reply:cut it to make a dildo-esk shape if its "something other" than a "christmas tree" cut the bottom branches off and make clones.
Reply:just trim it in the tri shape
Reply:By giving the shears to someone who knows what they're doing. Let's face it, if you don't want to end up with a little "Charlie Brown" tree- take it to that guy down the street (you know- the one with the beautifully shaped evergreen trees in front of his house? Yeah- him), and ask him to give your little one a trim. Believe me- you'll thank him EVERY Christmas.