How-To Features Tree Registry Register your trees for customized advice. Fall Care Kits Prepare your trees and shrubs for winter with this kit containing specially formulated fall fertilizer and the TreeHelp Bug Band insect trap. The Spruce Pine grows on a wide variety of even poor soils but does best on fertile, moist, acid soils. It prefers full sun but will grow in partial shade. Things to Watch For Pests include adeligids, bark beetles, pine shoot moths, sawfly larvae, pine spittle bugs and spruce mites.
Spruce pines experience few major disease problems except for occasional canker infections.