Pine Christmas Tree

This 7.5 Foot PE/PVC Hunter Christmas Tree offers dramatic down swept long branches that bow gracefully toward the ground. The tree is sparkled with burr cones making it look fresh-cut straight from the forest. Not only does it look amazing real it feels that way too! Pre-lit with 850 clear mini lights.

User Reviews about GKI Bethlehem Lighting 7-1 2-Foot PE PVC Pre-Lit Christmas Tree with 850 Clear Mini Lights - Hunter Fir

This tree looks great purchased a GE tree from home depot whe I got it home it was not very full, not many tips compared to this tree. I ordered this one online from Amazon, got it put it up, everyone who came over thought it was real. Great tree. -- great tree very full

This is our second artificial Christmas tree. Our first was a Puleo that we bought many years ago. Lately when shopping for trees, the trees that we found did not look as natural as the one we had. Unfortunately after many years of packing and unpacking, parts of the Puleo tree broke and we could not find replacements or a vendor selling another tree.

So we turned to Amazon in our search. We soon learned that one of the important criteria was "tip count" - how many tips the tree had. More tips would equate to a denser and more natural appearance. The GKI Bethlehem tree came out tops at over 4,000 tips.

My initial reaction when we received the tree and started unpacking it was of disappointment. Whereas our previous tree had a bark-like appearance for the central stem, this one was simply green-painted metal. Also, when we erected it, it initially appeared as if it was not very dense.

However, I soon realized that the twigs were tightly compressed from the packaging. One has to spend a considerable amount of time to separate the various tios from one another and to spread them out in a natural-looking manner. Once this is done, this tree looks lovely, dense and very natural. There are two types of tips, some are plastic and some are wire. The ones at the end of the branches are plastic and give an appearance of newer growth, whereas the wire tips bulk up very nicely and can be bent easily to fill any holes op openings.

Look out for secondary and tertiary branches on the lower limbs and pry them away from the main branches. This really bulks out the tree and if you position some higher and some lower than the main branches, they serve to break the artificial-looking appearance of cheaper trees that appear to have all branches on concentric rings.

THe video that comes with the product does not go much into arranging the branches, but I have found that this is the most time-consuming, but eventually rewarding effort if you want a tree that has a very natural-looking appearance. You cannot order a tree with more than 4,000 tips and expect them to spring into position all by themselves!

Now the only thing I'm missing is our colored lights flashing in merry patterns! -- Remember to spend time arranging the branches

Received e-mail from Amazon indicating reduced price but when purchased the normal price was inserted. The tree is excellent but Amazon was very deceptive in their advertising. I am completely happy with tree but after many purchases from Amazon I have now lost confidence in their advertising. -- great product

I just received and put up the 7 1/2 foot tree. I ordered it on December tenth and wasn't expecting shipment before the twenty-first. I was very happily surprised when it was delivered on the seventeenth. It comes in three sections with a stand. Included is a DVD which really isn't needed to set up the tree. Caution-the sections are heavy, especially the middle one. I had to ask someone help me to lift it onto the stand. It is very pretty and doesn't need many decorations. It has lovely pinecones on it. It is quite dense. If you play around with the branches you can make it look fuller. Mine is in front of the window and you can barely see through it. If you want a shorter tree you can leave off the bottom section and just use the middle and top. I am very pleased with this tree. -- Pre-lit Christmas tree

After looking at many different trees in person, we purchased the 9-foot GKI Bethlehem Hunter tree (multi-color) as our first artificial tree after many years of real Frasier Firs.

We couldn't be happier. With enough patience setting it up and properly arranging the branches, you can't get a more natural-looking tree. On the 9-foot tree, there are 6935 tips of two styles, with the very end tips on each branch being molded plastic forms from real trees. The remaining (bulk) of the tips are the more traditional artificial tree style.

GKI-Bethlehem includes a tutorial DVD, along with a wireless bulb tester that helps locate broken circuits if a bulb burns out improperly (generally, if a bulb burns out, the rest remain lit). And there are plenty of spare replacement bulbs.

The 9-foot tree comes in 3 pre-wired sections that fit together creating two separate power plugs for the tree. With each section, the branches are hinged at the center, and fan out. You'll need to adjust tips on each branch, and this takes quite a bit of time to get best results. I'll admit I'm a perfectionist, and this was also our first artificial tree. But it took me about 8 hours to properly arrange the tips in a 3-dimensional form, and bend the branches to create an evenly-spaced tree that appears to gradually flair up toward the light at the very top of the tree. Arranging properly definitely is more of an art - what I found with some experimentation is that you're best arranging the rear tips in a 3-dimensional form instead of just one direction. Start at the bottom, and move your way up. And, with each added section, you'll need to go back and arrange/bend branches to even the spacing and overall look. In the end, we are extremely pleased with the finished tree. I've uploaded a picture of it.

Is this tree perfect? Not entirely. There were a handful of the molded tips that were not properly attached. I ended up using spare decorator's wire to attach them properly. But considering the number of tips, this was only 2 or 3 branches. Not bad.

For the value, especially the outstanding Amazon price, I don't think you'll find a better artificial tree. -- stunning tree, if you have the patience to set it up