My profile photo is a bird nest spruce.
They need to be treated carefully when you style or wire. The branches are brittle and I broke either completely or half way 3 branches.
The link shows what we did to make it look more alpine. Your spruce has an upright apex which makes me wonder why? Usually a nursery plant is pretty horizontal and resembles a bird nest… hence their common name. The roots are pretty exposed so your nebari is pretty well determined.
I have mine in pumice/lava/ akadama and it has wintered well in my very harsh climate outdoors.
See the photos of the progression. A side note, the pot in the photo broke from freezing and had to be repaired. I currently have the tree in a hard fired pot.
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