Potted Christmas Tree help

[GrannyHeadology]

Hi all,

I’m not very green fingered, in fact the only thing I can successfully grow are weeds . However 2 Christmas’s ago I got a 3 foot potted Christmas tree on a whim. After 6 months I repotted it into a slightly larger pot, with good compost and a bit of slow release fertiliser. It had been doing well and over the last 12 months has sported tiny little buds of new growth.

However I’ve just gone out and watered my weeds and when I was watering the tree I noticed a lot of the needles at the very base of it looked a bit duller and fatter (if that makes sense) I rubbed them and a lot shed. The middle and top of the tree are fine and the ends of the branches are full of fresh green needles, just the ones at the base near the trunk seem to be effected.

Do you think it needs a bigger pot or is it just adjusting to the heat we’ve had lately? Please don’t tell me I’ve killed him off

What colour is the pot? Dark pots especially absorb heat and cook the roots.

They done last. I’ve tried several times and my current one repotted 18 myths ago, was doing fine and looked lovely, outside, last Christmas. It’s now dead at the top, but new growth at the bottom.
I think when they pot them to sell at Christmas, they chop the rootball and it can only sustain life for so long. Sadly mine’s going. I’m planning a lovely black bamboo to take its place.

Don’t * not done!

Conifers often shed their older needles, especially if they are shaded by other branches. I'm guessing it is a spruce of some sort?