Second flush on CBS?

[Marty626]

What’s up guys the new guy here again, like the title says I have a Colorado blue spruce that I got in December of last year I trimmed it in January took off about 40%, it pushed growth in spring of this year and today I noticed that it started pushing growth again?!? Is this normal for a CBS to do? Or is it displaying its own fireworks being that today is 4th of July? It looks like I’m getting some back budding on it which I’m not complaining about but it just seemed weird to me? Then again i don’t know shit about anything like always any feedback it greatly appreciated! Thanks

 

[WNC Bonsai]

It might just a delayed flush. On my big one I pruned it last fall and then repotted it this spring so it was slow to flush, with lots of buds just sitting there doing nothing while some opened. A few opened a little later in June and a couple have pushed recently. Others are still thinking about it and I hope they at least hang around until next spring. So I think it was just a response to all the stress of pruning and repotting in one year. One of my Norway sorunce is not faring as well and has been losing branches after a big root pruning this spring. I thought it had stabilized but yesterday more needles dropped on another branch so may lose it. Another problem is the very rainy spring and early summer we have been having. I am thinking of putting a plastic skirt over the soil to let it dry out some.

 

[sorce]

My Das's did this after I started watering them more.

I believe it is merely a mechanism to faster transpire in wet conditions, since soft folaige is more efficient at it.

Had it not been pruned so greatly in January, it may not have needed to do this.

Sorce

 

[Marty626]

It might just a delayed flush. On my big one I pruned it last fall and then repotted it this spring so it was slow to flush, with lots of buds just sitting there doing nothing while some opened. A few opened a little later in June and a couple have pushed recently. Others are still thinking about it and I hope they at least hang around until next spring. So I think it was just a response to all the stress of pruning and repotting in one year. One of my Norway sorunce is not faring as well and has been losing branches after a big root pruning this spring. I thought it had stabilized but yesterday more needles dropped on another branch so may lose it. Another problem is the very rainy spring and early summer we have been having. I am thinking of putting a plastic skirt over the soil to let it dry out some.

sorry to hear about your Norway spruce hopefully it pulls through! And thanks for the reply

 

[penumbra]

My white spruce always have a second growth. My Norway usually. My Oriental usually. My blue occasionally.
Spruce don't use the same playbook as pines.

 

[Marty626]

My white spruce always have a second growth. My Norway usually. My Oriental usually. My blue occasionally.
Spruce don't use the same playbook as pines.

Really? That’s interesting! thank you for the info and reply I’ll be observing closely next season

 

[Eckhoffw]

Yeah. Thanks guys! I have recently noticed the same on my birds nest spruce.