When should a concolor fir (white fir) be pruned?
There is almost nothing to do beyond removing a competing second leader and deadwood, and that work has to happen while the tree is young. The trap worth telling clients: fir does not resprout from bare old wood, so a branch cut back off a roof or wall never fills in again — you cannot "cut a fir back," and limbing up the low skirt is permanent.
Reading concolor fir (white fir) before you cut
Dieback starts at the top and the leader and works downward, which is the signature of a root problem and the opposite of the bottom-up interior browning you see from foliar disease on spruce. Interior needle shed and some color fade are normal; a limp or dead leader with needles that pull off green means check the root flare and the drainage, not the foliage.
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