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Strange Conifer growth

Reg WellsReg Wells Posts: 17
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I have had a minature conifer in the garden for several years, but the top has sudenly started to grow into a different conifer. Can the top be cut off to keep the minature shape or is there some thing I can do to stop it reverting to another tree.  Have tried to upload a photo, but kept being rejected.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,896

    Hi Reg image

    To upload a photo on here you need to click on the green tree icon on the toolbar above where you type your post.  If you get an error message ignore it and wait - it should be ok.

    If it still doesn't upload you may need to reduce the size a bit.

    Good luck


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Reg WellsReg Wells Posts: 17

    image

    Thanks, but image has just come up as a black box with an X

     

  • Reg WellsReg Wells Posts: 17

    I'll take it all back the photo has come up. As you can see it was a compact small conifer, but now looks like a christmas tree on top

     

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,159

    I should think a 'dwarf' cultivar has reverted and is showing its true form.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391

    If there is definitely only one trunk then I think nut is right and you need to follow the rampant growth right back to where it grows from the main trunk and cut it off there.  If you leave it, it will take over and the dwarf parts will dwindle away and die.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,159

    They can do that Edd. Much like a variegated cultivar reverts to green



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053

    Nut has again hit the nail on the head. Revertion it is.

     

    Devon.
  • Reg WellsReg Wells Posts: 17

    Thanks. It is just the one trunk, but has forked at the top, with the larger fur taking over.

    Will try and cut it at the joint and hope I can keep the original shape.

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053

    Reg, remember your plant ( Picea glauca albertiana conica) is a mutation from the original, it's genes have just re-aligned back to ancestors.

     
    Devon.
  • Steve the Gardening VetSteve the Gardening Vet Posts: 1,621

    Think of it as a way to hang baubles..?

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